It’s hot here in the Northeast today, again. It’s humid, again. So, in keeping with the “again” theme, here’s some cool daylilies from Peg’s garden (again). It’s a bit out of order (I still have to show how I got from South Carolina to Lancaster…) but today is so hot, what the heck, I’m breaking my own rules.
One of the highlights of my travels is getting to Lancaster for daylily season. This year, the heat and lack of rain has made for a bit less flowering but I still managed to get some beauties.
Even when its insanely hot and humid, walking around the garden to check out the flowers is still worth the effort.
Every day, yesterday’s buds have turned into today’s blooms, full of color and light for just one day.
It’s amazing to me, after years of seeing these flowers bloom, that each one lasts for just one day. All that beauty, one day at a time.
Maybe there’s a lesson in there, to take each day and make the most of it. Even when it’s stupidly hot and the humdity so thick you can almost see the air.
What can you make of your day today?
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Daylilies: Always welcome!
Beautiful 🙂
Gorgeous!
How beautiful to see her garden in person. You’re so lucky!
Tell Peg, hello! Her garden is incredible.
The colors are beautiful! We have deer and our deer love our day lilies. Once upon a time we planted a whole lot of different varieties, intending to bloom at different times of the summer. But the deer have systematically eaten them down to nothing. These days we still have ditch lillies (orange) and some smaller yellow and a few red ones…and in the perennial garden there’s a surprise survivor hidden among other things. Still, I love seeing them in OTHER people’s gardens! Yours are beautiful!
Beautiful flowers Annie (and Peg!!). There are many here in my corner of Montreal as well, I might venture out and admire them later today (when the heat and humidity abate a little). I did not know that they flower fully only for a day! Seems like the time to view them is NOW before they all fade away. Important lessons for us, too.
The deer love eating them too
Lovely. The purple one looks like H. ‘Tralyta’