Since April 1, we've had more than 18 inches of rain, and only 10 days have been considered "clear" by the local weather service. The result of that has been one of the most brilliantly blooming springs I can remember.
Lately, I've been seeing lots of daylilles along fences and roadsides, in big posh neighbourhoods and in yards of small rowhouses. 
They're so abundant this year and provide a big splash of colour! 
Most of the ones I've been seeing are the orange tiger-lillies, but I've also seen yellows and deep burgundy ones.
Daylillies don't last at all as cut flowers, but they bring a big smile to my face when I see them growing.They're so abundant this year and provide a big splash of colour! Most of the ones I've been seeing are the orange tiger-lillies, but I've also seen yellows and deep burgundy ones.
Love these! Such a happy color...love orange!
ReplyDeleteLeslie
Wonderful daylillies - I don't know them but they ares so pretty .....Have a happy weekend, xv.
ReplyDeletei adore them.
ReplyDeletei have some sweet sentimental pictures of them .
thank you for bringing back a lovely memory.
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Lovely... the orange is so pretty against all that green!
ReplyDeleteThey're blooming at my house too and along all the rural roadsides. They always mean summer to me (take that, hydrangeas).
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love daylillies. We're in a dry spell here, and nothing wants to bloom :(
ReplyDeletelove the orange daylillies Meg! We are having rain, and more rain too! Stay dry!
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we always called these "tiger lillies". Or is that something different?
ReplyDeletethis is such a great post for me, it's like having little windows into flora and fauna that I don't get to see anymore now that I live in so cal.
BB8... I think that tiger lillies are the orange stripey ones, but generically, they're day lillies, because they only last for a day at a time.
ReplyDeleteThere are daylilies in my garden, too. I remember being so surprised that they were blooming all over New England last summer.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't seen your new header! What adorable little piggies!!
reminds me of Alex Katz's large day lily paintings!
ReplyDeleteSee some good things about rain! And I spied a very healthy-looking hydrangea as well. Sadly (for me) much better than mine are looking. But happy for you. :-) And a great contrasting color to the daylillies.
ReplyDeleteThey are wonderful, aren't they? I'm particularly enchanted with the ones that are clear, pure yellow in color, not the orange ones....but then on the other hand, I have orange ones in my garden too, and they look quite fine.
ReplyDeleteSince I was a little girl my mother has always had day lilies. I always love them when they bloom!
ReplyDeleteI love orange daylilies and I think the unimproved orange daylily (officially known as the Tawny Daylily) has a much prettier, more graceful flower shape than the modern hybridized varieties which often look like big flat, frilly squash blossoms to me.
ReplyDeletebeachbungalow8, the tiger lily is a different species and is a real lily. You can see pictures of them here.
Aesthete's Lament, they always mean summer to me too, although I think of them as partners of hydrangea because they bloom at the same time and they are often planted together.
(OK, longest comment ever. I'm stopping now.)
Back in Michigan they're everywhere wild... its great to just drive along an empty road, turn a corner & get flashed a bash of orange!!!
ReplyDeleteWe have the same color outside our front door - that orange is LOVELY! My 96 year old Grandma had them in her yard and taught me that if you "dead head" them they bloom more quickly and fully - now I obsessively snap the dead ones off. I can't walk away - its awful.
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