New Shade Garden and Path

All under the walnut tree.

Welome to The Daylily Days of Summer

Boy I love daylilles, my Mom and I ordered 50 more to split between our gardens. (There is a real good deal she found on the side of my Blog) --->

I am excited. My Mother's Garden is awesome whereas I am still her padawan learner. Sorry I am bad at names too but, if you have educated guesses on any names or maybe just what you'd name them let me know.

Green Thumb Sunday

Green Thumb Sunday

Welcome Summer I'm so "Glad" You're here.

Lets Have Some Lettuce!!!

We have had great success with our lettuce this year. We do not use any pesticides so there are one or two small holes here and there, but that is so much better than any pesticide if you ask me. We grew it and that's the best part about it. It is Romain "Parris Island" it's delicious (I would know I just had it in a salad for dinner). It has a great flavor. Last year our lettuce was bitter and tough even early in the season. However, this variety is the best ever. But that is my opinion biased due to the fact that we grew it ourselves, the satisfaction alone is enough to make my heart swell with pride but, topped with a good dressing it's even better.

Green Thumb Sunday

Gaillardia ("Burgundy" I Believe). With an Heirloom roadside daylily (Hemerocallis fulva) I found and moved from under my apricot tree last year. Two garden "Easies" very drought resistant and mess up resistant. I love the height of these very easy day lilies I can plant them hidden behind things, until tada here they are!!! I love the new flowers on this even more than the mature flowers they are so cute like the one up in the right corner very pretty yellow center with a little red border.I hope you enjoy them on this beautiful Sunday in Utah.

Happy Independance Day

New Coneflower

See next post for more independance day thoughts.

In the Beauty of the Lilies

In the beauty of the lilies, this independance day, I would like to say thank you to all the men and women who are serving, were once serving, or will in the future be serving. Without those to protect freedom there would be no freedom.

Yellow !!!

Green Thumb Sunday Can you find the bee in this Peace Rose

Happy Green Thumb sunday and father's day to all of you I hope you've had a great day. Our roses started Blooming abiout a week ago. are all of you in warmer climates are just ending your rose season? We are so excited! My wife took this picture of one of our peace roses and found this bee enjoying the scent. good thing she didn't "stop to smell the roses.

The Beautiful Iris

This one is one of our favorite of all the different iris we own. We bought it two years ago from Highland Nursery. I am so bad at names so I can't tell you the names of any Iris shown here.

This was a big shrub last year and this year it is a beautiful Gaggle of Iris yet still not as great as we would like it to be but probably will not ever get that way either we kinda let things grow how and where they want to an extent.

We transplanted these Iris last year from shady locations. they are beautiful so close together but, i think I must divide them already so if any one needs Iris please let me know I have plenty and many still unblooming in the shade.

This one was given to us by my Mother who divided her Iris 2 or 3 years ago.It is a gorgeous peach color.

Blue and Purple on Red

Blue Flax Against our Red brick wall.

Purple Iris Against our Red shed

Walls can make such a good backdrop I never realized how much red wall space we have. I enjoy our Iris very much they are so beautiful more pics coming soon.

And I thought my Soil was Hard

A tree growing out of a granite boulder in the Dry Creek Canyon of Alpine. I took this picture on a hike last summer but, have been thinking a lot about hard soil lately. I planted my veggie garden last sat. and my "dirt" felt about as hard as this boulder if not harder but,this little tree (I think it's a cedar) encourages me to say the least. So plant away even if you feel like you're in "between a rock and a hard place."

Double or Nothing?!?!?!

Double Icelandic Poppy up from seed last year.Very pretty I didn't know they came in doubles. but, it just bloomed again and it is no longer double confusing? Yes very mabe 2 different seeds came up next to each other one a double and one single or mabe just a fluke of nature whatever it was I don't know. If anyone knows how this happened please enlighten me.

DAFFODILS

We bought these Replete Daffodils along with Flower Drift Daffodils from Brecks bulbs last year

Tulips

COSMOS

Cosmos are beautiful tall full sun bush-like annuals. They grow to be between 2-3 feet tall. They do come in a miniture variety about 8 inches tall. They come in: white, pink, purple, orange, and even choclate. Plant the seeds in the fall or early spring. They'll start coming up in about April here in Utah. They will bloom from early summer to late fall esspesially if you continue to dead head the whole season long. Try these out I promise that you'll like them. They tend to be bigger than life if you let them take over. So they are perfect for a field in the full sun. Or here and there in a wild garden.

Have you planted your Gladioli?

Ya, neither have I. Here in Utah we are zone 6. It is still getting quite cold at nights and may even snow next week but we are getting excited to plant them. Here Gladioli must be dug up and stored somewhere dry and dark for the winter. But, now it is about time to plant. They range in color from white to pink, orange or a combonation of colors.

POPPIES!!!

Do you have poppies in you landscape? Which poppy is your favorite?

California Poppy

The California Poppy (annual/ tender perennial) comes in yellows, oranges, white, and even pink. It grows to about 12 inches tall on a small bushy plant with beautiful, dusty gray, feathery foliage. It is very drought tolerant but also will grow well with normal watering. it is propagated very easily from seed.

Oriental Poppy

The Oriental Poppy is a very beautiful perennial growing to about 15-24 inches tall with big blooms of reds, pinks, or purples. In this picture it is growing wild in front of a wild yellow rose in the "Poppy Fields"found in the mountains of Utah. Therefore you can tell it is also drought tolerant.

Shirley Poppy

Shirley poppy, mid summer blooming, between 24-36 inches tall, easily comes up from seed each spring. What do you think about the Shirley poppy?