One daylily and some other flowers

3 years ago

We keep getting closer to flowering. We had a seedling bloom the other day on what looked to be a cheater scape. It was not picture worthy though. Today this seedling from Olallie bloomed. It's fairly tall with dark scapes. The buds have a lot of black too and there is that brownish stripe on the back of the petals.

This is my favorite old rose which was collected from the roadside. The fragrance is heavenly and the flowers are always so neat and symmetrical. Bob thought it might be Reine des Centfeuilles, but now he doesn't think so.

I always wanted some poppies, but never got around to getting any. Now there is an Amish nursery a few miles north of us that sells many perennials that we don't usually see in garden centers in our city. Now we have 2 poppies and a new place to visit every spring.

This is an ffo for this iris called Tulip Festival. It was planted just last fall and the scape (if that's what you call it) is shorter than it should be, but I like it.

I just can't get the right color on this iris. It is a luscious deep purple but the photos come out blue. This one was affected by the frost as most of the flowers had deformed standards. This was the only good looking flower it had.

That's all for me. We might have some named varieties of daylilies blooming in a few days. I can't wait.

Nancy

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Comments (7)

Julia WV (7a)
3 years ago
I don't think I've ever seen a scape and bud color like what you show on Olallie. Interesting. That rose is so pretty. I do hope you can find out what the name is. It looks like a puff ball. My daughter gave me seeds for poppies so I will plant them in the fall. Too late here for planting now. The iris look good.

Julia
lilykate7a
3 years ago
The iris are so pretty! Now that is a find on the roadside! Such a pretty rose!
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organic_kitten
3 years ago
It is so nice to have blooms begin! It's a Nice bright yellow too. The Iris are so pretty as is the rose, but I do love poppies and that is surely my color. Absolutely love it!

kay
shive
3 years ago
Your seedling is a cheerful yellow. I really like your two-color Tulip Festival iris. Some of my iris scapes were very short this year too.

Debra
Brad KY 6b
3 years ago
Love that purple Iris!

Brad
mantis__oh
3 years ago
Nice color. The oriental poppies are very messy for a long time after blooming, but they give some saturated color. We are in a dry, sunny period here. Tired of sun! The weathercasters are exuberant: "Usually, May is one of our wettest months, but we have had lots of sunny days this year and no rain in the 10-day forecast." So they rejoice in golfer's weather.
Nancy 6b
3 years ago
I would not have guessed that the dark tipped buds would have produced a yellow lily. I have tried Oriental poppies but they don't like me. We are supposed to be dry here the next week, and have missed out on predicted rain twice predicted this week. Having to water some, hate lugging that water hose around so early. Just watering the newer or moved plants now. Beautiful iris, and such an interesting rose, I really like that.