Some Rain before the Oppression

2 years ago

last modified: 2 years ago

We did have some rain last night. Not that much, but it refreshed the garden. In general, blooms have not been good. With cold nights and weather vagaries, flowers are smaller than usual and foliage ratty. Daylilies like humidity, but they'll get that with extreme heat and no rain in the next seven days at least. Night-time lows in the mid-seventies. Hard to imagine.

Heroes on Horseback has done well in its new location, where it is glad to be free of earwigs.

Madam Bessemar (a Schwartz cultivar) can have very interesting form.

Mower King on a new plant. Huge bloom.

Four Beasts in One looked better in person, but those yellows can glare when photographed.

Burning So Brightly is indeed very intense.

Stop the Car

Spunky Girls on sturdy scapes.

John Karl Seager has performed well.

Black Falcon Ritual is one of few plants so far that has excellent performance.

Lonesome Jaguar has looked very good.

Leaves trimmed because they grew over the boxwood.

Clown Parade

In the Heart of It All.

Spacecoast Red Eyed Monster. Not a fast grower.

finished

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Comments (7)

organic_kitten
2 years ago
Your photos are always so pretty. what is the third one, Mantis?

kay
shive
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Lonesome Jaguar is my favorite of these. Mine is not doing as well this season as in the past. Spunky Girls and John Karl S. also stand out to me. We already had 94 degrees yesterday.

Debra
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lilykate7a
2 years ago
Weather is the same here. Only early morning gardening and even then the humidity is oppressive.

I like the color of In the Heart of it All, Stop the Car is very bright per name. LonesomeJaguar does look very good.
hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
2 years ago
The weatherman predicted a chance of rain here, but we didn't get a drop. We sure do need it.

It's funny that you have some blooming there that haven't started here. This is a crazy mixed up year. The season started early, but some have slowed down while the late bloomers already have scapes. I just can't figure it out, but it makes it hard to know the bloom season of seedlings we want to register. We have one red one that has consistently bloomed late, but this year it will bloom midseason.

Lonesome Jaguar hasn't started here yet nor has Stop the Car and Black Falcon Ritual.

Lonesome Jaguar and In the Heart of It All are my favorites today.

Nancy
Nancy 6b
2 years ago
Heroes on Horseback looks really good, I really like spunky Girls too. My Black Falcon ritual is a bit short this year, but is one of few blooming well.
mantis__oh
Original Author
2 years ago
In the Heart of It All is having a very good year. Its blooms are very large, with great substance. In its best years, it reblooms. A Salter. Most plants have smaller-than-normal flowers. Foliage is often yellowing or has ratty tips. Really it is a bad year, and I don't see how the coming week will make it any better.
Julia WV (7a)
2 years ago
A nice mix of daylily blooms . Is this at your garden or somewhere else?

Lonesome Jaguar looks to have the creamy/tannish color with the dark edging. Is that what it looks like in person? Or more whitish? I like the soft color of John Karl Seager. I see many photos on another site which has a variety of darker or lighter colors when it blooms in their locations. I would imagine in hot temp locations it would fade more.