Daylily bed summer 2010

absolutely wonderful

wow that looks beautiful..:o)

Wow Simbad.....How perfect....:>)

I do fancy coming up to stay in the summer and lean on that balcony first thing in the morning looking at all these wonderful flowers...but gotta feeling your balcony aint up to it!

That is some collection!

It sure is !!

Wow that is a sight for sore eyes!!

Aaaah thanks everyone glad you like it :-)
We did have 5 teenage boys locked on that balcony a couple of years ago Tetrarch, youngest daughter had some friends round, must have got fed up of the boys and locked them on the balcony,lol.
Still growing Meanie:-)

Happy memories Kathy, stunning.

In that case Simbad, I'll book my room for the summer..it must smell pretty gorgeous with so many dayliles under the balcony!

Thanks Dawn:-)
Ok Tetrarch you're booked in,lol, does smell pretty nice but more from the David Austen rose bed under the balcony, which you can't see from this picture,not a lot of the daylilies are scented, but I'll forgive them,lol.

Just heavenly;0))

Thanks Carole:-)

Thanks Simbad, next to irises and daylilies, roses are next on my fav. list. You notice all three are tough unfussy plants that bloom despite the gardener lol!!

Lol my sort of plants too Tetrarch,look after themselves apart from a bit of pruning:-)
Has your propagater come yet?

Oh yes, got the first lot of seeds in. Well 5 out of 7 anyway. The other two have been usurped by my pot of poppy roots. The first show of green from my Patty Plum went and died on me. Think the soil was too damp. Got 2 more coming thru so I stuck it on the propagator. It worked! The two new shoots doing nicely!! Have one batch of seedlings showing, the other 4 not yet but they were the "long time/erratic" sort. Still time. At long last got 3 more pots of poppy roots showing. I brought them all indoors cos it was so cold and after the first one hitting the dust I wasnt taking chances.
So not only is my terrace floor, greenhouse, 2 growhouses, 3 racks and six-seater table covered in plants, my bedroom is succumbing also lol! I can hardly get out of the french doors, soon I will be confined to bed also LOL!

Crikey you've certainly been busy Tetrarch,just make sure they don't take over the bed too,lol. I can't get out our sunroom door either have one of those seed tray stands that holds 15 seed trays thought its too cold for my babies in the greenhouse yet so brought it in there, filling up very quickly, lost all my agastache Apricot Sprite but found some old seed I'd collected 2006 and lo and behold they've germinated, now what shall I sow next:-) really must look at what veg seed needs growing for allotment soon, love the flowers better though.

You sound even worse than me!! We have allotments at the bottom of the garden but its so high up here and they dont have any protection against the wind. Our garden drops down and I have 5ft walls all around. Yesterday was dreadful, it was so windy it blew a heavy duty plastic garden shed across the allotments. One or two of my pots got blown over, but nothing drastic.
I dont think I would have the patience for veg..certainly dont have the space (unless I change the front garden!). Tried runner beans and tomatoes in pots about 5 years ago, but got fed up with eating them!
Dont get tired of looking at flowers tho. And you can take cuttings and collect seed, but you dont have to keep eating the darn things lol!

Isn't that weird our allotments at the bottom of the garden too, but we're the other way round we're at the top of the hill and allotments at the bottom so really sheltered, really windy here too yesterday, although doesn't sound like it was as bad as yours, had some tulips in pots waiting to go in the garden found one lot out of the pot but god knows were the pot is,lol, I freeze a lot of the veg, still working my way through runner beans and have around 20 bags of apples in the freezer, lovely bramley apple tree on there can't waste them:-), also redcurrants they all got used in ice-cream, yummy, just used the last of the leeks but they're ok as you can leave them in the ground till you need them, spent a whole day peeling and cooking the flippin apples, blisters on my fingers, OH wants to have a go at cider this year, sounds good to me:-) and he bought a wine making book last year, seems you can make wine out of just about anything even spuds, even better,lol,still learning on the veg front more OH's domain, I just have to grow the seeds and plant them out, hold on thats most of the work done!!!!!, not really he likes the digging part when he gets time, always seems to be working at the moment.
Got to agree I love flowers best too:-)