A Few Surprises Today

With all the rain we've had this year, garden maintenance has become a real chore, and I've been strenuously avoiding it. I just hope I have the energy to fix things next year. I also hope we get a bit of a break on the rain next year. (I know rain is good -- it replenishes the water supplies and all that -- but it sure is easier to do garden maintenance in a dry year.)

There've been a few new blooms today. Spider Miracle (one of the few spider forms in my garden) feels like a genuine miracle because it is the first daylily in my garden that has come back from a non-blooming state and given me blooms.

Spider Miracle


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Woodside Rhapsody caused me a moment of angst as I flipped through my garden albums examining tags. I just couldn't remember which one it was. Part of the problem is that I was expecting this one to be a darker, more purple daylily. Today's version is much more of a red-purple.

Woodside Rhapsody


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The final new bloom is one of the Sabine Baur/Alaqua sisters. I call them sisters. They aren't supposed to be. Alaqua is supposed to be petite, neat, and pretty. Sabine Baur is blousy, with a more relaxed habit. Unfortunately, my Alaqua turned out to be more relaxed than it should have, so it looks exactly like Sabine Baur. I decided to plant them together and call them sisters. This bloom actually does come from the Sabine Baur plant though.

Sabine Baur


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BONUS PHOTO

There is a final photo I want to show you. Executive Decision bloomed with a polytepalous flower today and it deserves to be shown. So here it is.

'Executive Decision' Polytepalous Flower


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Still not perfect, as perfection goes, but well worth looking at.
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