Hard Freeze last night, and 3, indeed, 3! daylilies tried to blo

organic_kitten

13 years ago

I went out today and it was 28 degrees and we had had the first hard freeze of the season.

Three dayllilies had tried to bloom:

Hot Lave ...not very hot today:

Blueberry Breakfast: It was actually frozen when I touched it:

And Man of Sorrows: Looks pretty sad, doesn't it?

Then, a few hours later, I looked at them again. Hot Lave was a little more open, but still not much to look at:

Man of Sorrows looked even worse:

But look at Blueberry Breakfast! It was frozen (you can see ice crystals in the first picture) and it was a fused bloom (first one ever for me on it) and still made it almost all the way open.

What an outlandish daylily year this has been.

And I took a picture of the iris (zinnia) bed with a couple of "flying flowers" the day before the freeze hurt or killed them.

kay

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jean_ar
13 years ago
BRavo kAY. well, have to do my reply over again, It disappeared when I hit the preview.I love them zinnias.they are so pretty, I have just a few babies like that.I hope to have much more next year,I kept a Bouquet in the house every day for several months.they last at least a week in a vase.I think I had some lasted 2 weeks.my second bud opened on HOT LAVA and it looked bad, about like yours, maybe worse.it surprised me after such a gorgeous bloom for the first one.It still had 4 more buds on it.

Jean
crackingtheconcrete
13 years ago
Lol!! What little troopers those daylilies are!!! I keep checking mine for amazing scape appearances since you, Celeste, and Jean have some, but I guess my plants are a bit less ambitious than yours ;)
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organic_kitten
Original Author
13 years ago
Jean,
I had some gorgeous blooms on Hot Lava, but when it got cold, those were over. I am impressed with Blueberry Breakfast. The zinnias are so persistent, I final;ly just let them go knowing a few consecutive hard frosts would finish them.

CTC, I haven't seen such behavior before with my daylilies, but it has been fun.

kay
Cindy zone 6a
13 years ago
That is super!! Look at Blueberry Breakfast. The zinnias are pretty. It was a crazy year.
cindy
jean_ar
13 years ago
well, I for one hope next year is just as crazy with the pretty blooms.kay.but,I bet next year will be different.

Jean
organic_kitten
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks Cindy. Blueberry Breakfast has been another one that was a very good bloomer, then a rebloomer, then in October sshe sent up two nice bloom spikes, and this fused double bloom is one of those. the on again, off again weather has wreaked havoc on the late bloom spikes in general...as would be expected, but it was still very nice.

Jean, we probably will have some other kind of crazy year next year. I have made up my mind to spray for thrips as soon as bloom spikes emerge next year...and to live head at night, and to get up very early to get the better light for photos. Since I have retired, I can do that, I guess.

Jean, I put up a picture from my store and use it as a desk top, changing them when the view no longer "catches my eye". This is the one I put up last night. I took it on June 11th, about half way (or more) through the heaviest bloom time.

I miss that kind of bloom!
kay
newyorkrita
13 years ago
That last daylily picture from summer is the kind of view I could look at ever day! Lovely!!!

Those daylilies are amazing still trying to bloom. Everything quit here long ago. And the self seeded zinnia bed in amoung the iris is just amazing. Those zinnias never want to quit. Actually, mine are still going also blooming away like troopers even though it is really too late for them now.
organic_kitten
Original Author
13 years ago
Rita,
That is what we all miss, isn't it? I have been very surprised at the daylilies. I am not surprised with new ones, and I pinch those scapes out. Emerald Starburtst and Red Slippers both put up new scapes, but to have an established one do it is different to say the least.

I actually have a few places for spring...usually with plants I intended to SP and didn't get around to. The hard freeze we had bit back the zinnias in the iris bed, but didn't kill them. The big ones from last year succomed to it, and I have pulled them up and thrown them on the burn pile. They are total seed factories!

The duranta
erectas were not hurt by the frost which was unexpected. I had covered the one in the pot, and plan to move it to the greenhouse soon. But I though the one in the ground would die. Not so! The Mandevillas did die, but I had already decided to just replace them next year. It is warm and lovely now. Weather is a constant change!

kay