Another Big Day for Daylilies

Several new first blooms today. We are getting towards mid to late season, so a whole new cohort is coming up.

Nile Crane had two first blooms today. One nice, one awful. I took a photo of the nicer one of the two.

Nile Crane


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I am so pleased that Flore-Pleno -- a daylily I got from a friend's garden (actually her driveway, literally a corner where the asphalt was breaking down) -- is blooming this year. As you can see, I won't get many flowers because a lot of the buds are shrivelled and dying. But I will take the few blooms that I get. The plant did not bloom at all last year.

For more information on this daylily, see this post.

Flore-Pleno


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A new acquisition last year, planted in the bed dedicated to daylilies, Lucky Catch is to me a fascinating daylily. I can't quite tell if it's reddish-pink, or pinkish-red. What I'm trying to say is that the colour is so close to the cusp between pink and red that it's difficult to say on which side of the line it falls.

Lucky Catch


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Another one from the same bed, also new last year, is Strutter's Ball.

Strutter's Ball


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If you guessed that I like this one because it's dark purple, you'd be right.

Now, I didn't get a very good photo of this next daylily because it was waiting for the afternoon to open up, and I took my photo in the morning. But you can certainly get an idea that this is a near-white daylily -- about as close to white as I've ever seen -- once it opens up wide and proud. It's called Ice Carnival.

Ice Carnival


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And here is one you haven't seen, even though it's the second bloom for this plant this year. I couldn't photograph the first one because it was really UGLY. I happen to think this is a very beautiful daylily, so it's worth keeping, even though it has a fair percentage of deformed flowers.

Destined to See


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Well, that's it for new daylilies today. Hope you all are having a great weekend!
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