‘Peacock Alley’ daylily

Each Face a Delight

| Flower Roberts

June is daylily season here in North Carolina. I must work hard to have uneaten blooms. It is worth all the effort to see these beautiful faces. I say their names as I visit each plant to dead-head its withered blooms.

I will share a photo of each with its name. Trying to pick a favorite is difficult. There are qualities other than bloom color that make them desirable…stem strength and length, hardiness, colorfastness, color bleeding…

Here are the ones blooming this first week of June.

Mac the Knife- fire engine red with yellow
Sammy Russell – smallest bloom of all here, deep dull color
Nutmeg Spice- looks different in different light, love the contrasting colors and how the pollen matches the throat
Peacock Alley – sweet open blooms, white margin
Lavender Rainbow – Stop to see this one every time I pass. Outstanding large blooms
Dixie Boy – happy little bright blooms with a hint of ruffled margin
Sabre Salina – Delicately beautuful
Breed Apart – love this color combo and ruffled margin
Whooperee – A favorite of the deer herd, big juicy blooms

I have forgotten the name of the next daylily so I will stop there. There will be many more.

ATTENTION LOCAL FOLLOWERS- I will be dividing and moving these as my hip allows. Write down your favorites and I will hold some for you.

FLOW

Peacock Alley

| Flower Roberts

I have been fighting to protect daylily buds long enough to get a photo of one bloom from each plant.

I actually burst into tears in the garden yesterday.

One of my slow-growing daylilies, ‘Gentle Shepherd’ was decapitated overnight.

Here is a survivor.

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‘Peacock Alley’ with sparkling raindrops.

Pointy, pink and pretty.

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My flowers are my friends.

The deer are not my enemies.

I am torn between flowers and fawns.

My world is tiny.

My garden is important to me but so is nature.

Flower