Erin and Megan arrived this afternoon and left for the Fairlee drive-in after dinner. They had a sunny day, the first one since Thursday. The whole weekend was rainy and cold, we got about 1.5 inches of much-needed rain. We had fires in the fireplaces during the party. Did I mention that it’s July?
Meanwhile back in the beds, I moved four cotoneasters from the front of the new house where they had been struggling for years and re-planted them around the tree hydrangea that marks the pet cemetery. It’s a spot that gets more sun than they were getting before. And now I have a new bed to plant.
Over the weekend two people asked if the orange, native daylilies were ‘tiger lilies’. They’re not. Daylilies are in the genus Hemerocallis and grow from roots that form clumps and are hardy and reliable perennials. There’s more info at the American Hemerocallis Society web site.
Tiger lilies are in the genus Lilium and grow from bulbs and are less hardy, certainly less hardy in VT. The flowers are inverted and have dark spots. I have had both, but the tiger lily bulbs were eaten by something, and the plants were eaten by the scarlet lily beetle before the bulbs disappeared.
New blooms: mallow, evening primrose, summer azalea, hybrid daylily.
Thursday night sunset after a little rain. This was the last time we saw the sky until Monday.
Filipendula, a slight variation on the earlier one from last week.
Mallow will bloom most of the rest of the summer.
Anyone for red in a daylily?
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