garden

Ok, so you have found out my secret love. Gardening!!

My Roses here, Daylilies below. My daylilies are my pride, but this year I attempted roses too. I have purchased my daylilies from Virginia and North Carolina, South Carolina and many, many all over Georgia (north, south, east and west), especially locally and in the Statesboro area. Most of mine have names and I know them, I just don't choose to keep up with their names, so I bury the tags with the roots.
Every morning my husband and I have coffee on the patio and if time permits I photograph the day's newest openings, especially on the weekends as the sun comes out and they open fully.

My Roses are just beginning to bloom, the colors are white, cream, peach, rose, red, copper, yellow, lavender and orange and the variegated. Temperamental souls they are, daylilies sure are easier. Daylily beds everywhere I find an extra space. Even Drexel's shop has fallen victim to the newest bed down the side, and now my neighbor has graciously donated her fence row, bless her heart. This year 3 new beds were put in and over 100 more plants added. We're tired!

DAYLILIES
This is the third year (fourth summer) I have had daylilies. I have over 300 and at least 100 varieties. This year I hope to grow some of the seeds I have "mated" and collected. Who knows what they will look like, but what fun the anticipation! So many of them look similar but each is different in its own way and all are beautiful. Matthew sure knew what he was talking about when he said "Consider the lilies of the field....Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these."

NOW FOR '04 - My new passion this year is for the Spacecoast cultivators, since I can only afford a few of them, I am planning to try my hand at the seeds I grow cross breading them with each other some of my other favorites. I added a few new ones from some of our vacations: Enjoy!