Daylilies

So now I’m going to talk about my excitement over our daylily grove and extinguish any lingering doubt, as though you had any, that I do not lead a very exciting life. Actually, I’ve gone over in my head a bunch of times how I can make this post more interesting, but the truth of it is, this is very straightforward: got a space in your garden that you’re not sure what to do with and you really don’t want to have to ever tend? Get yourself some daylilies. When we moved into our home, this section of the garden, which lies beneath a very large silver maple, was filled with weeds but hemmed in with a pretty row of hostas. It desperately needed color so we used our backyard wedding reception as an excuse to splurge a little bit on a collection from White Flower Farm. (This section of the garden isn’t completely in the shade; it gets morning and late afternoon sun.) Every year I add more compost to that area to build up the soil since initially it was just a thin layer and lots of tree roots and it’s taken a few seasons but now they’re starting to fill in nicely. Last summer I tried to get a photo of each variety that was represented in the bunch and although I wasn’t able to get them all, here is a sampling. Next summer? A foxglove grove! Yippee!

{The last two photos: first, a photo standing in a section of the daylily grove and looking out, and second, a photo of a daylily from the collection which I snuck out to the postbox and which is, not surprisingly, growing faster than the others since it gets all day sun. Also, as I was telling Louise in the comments, I used to not be a fan of daylilies, but colorings like these are warming me up to them!}