Upstairs in my backyard near the far end of my veggie garden, I am creating a new garden by expanding forward from the serviceberry shrubs that make the end of the island bed.

The bed in the backyard that I have been working in is 14 feet long. The very back is a row of Serviceberry shrubs. In front is a row of old MARY TOOD daylilies that I have had forever. In front of the MARY TOODS running the 14 feet accross, I planted the 60 Giant hybrid lilies in a row with a grouping of some double tiger lilies and Cape Lilies in the middle.

Then one row coming forward is 8 daylilies that I moved from various parts of the garden, four towards each end. I put the 25 trumpet lilies right in the middle of that row, so that its not daylilies all the way accross.

Then the next row is Asiatic lilies Luxor running accross but with a grouping Purple Prince hybrids mixed in the very middle part of the row.

I planted those 128 lily bulbs mentioned in there today.

There is a row planned in front of that of daylilies (ordered for this spring but not here yet) with a Siberian Iris at each end and so that the row of lilies will be sandwiched between a full row of daylilies and that row with daylilies and trumpet lillies.

I plan to take out some of the Mary Todds in the back row and put some Siberian Iris in there also.

So this spring before I started it was a two row garden of shrubs and some old daylilies been here forever. When I am done it will be multiple rows of daylilies and bulb lillies with the shrubs in back and some Siberian Iris mixed in. And the rest of the daylilies for there and the siberian iris should all be coming at the end of this month.

The bulb lillies in this garden bed have different bloom times and the very front row of daylilies ordered to be planted are all late blooming types while the siberian iris bloom before the daylilies so I am hopeful that I have got the mix right for a long bloom period in this new garden.