planning stage

garden plan ? yes there is one. except. except most garden plans revolve around a theme or a map. the plan here has a slightly different focus. this is a hybridizing garden. a seed garden if you will. so the plan here is more ‘what seeds might be made?’ and once those seeds sprout where will the selected flowers be planted ? and what flowers might be unplanted to make room ? and of course the constantly altered plan as new flowers enter the plan. somehow a new seedling always becomes the most fantastic seedling in the garden. and yes some other plant will give way for this one. and as impossible as it is this process repeats every year with each new crop of seedlings. tonight’s flower is one of those seedlings from a few years ago…

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try and try again

this is what is called a poly as in polymerous. or simply put an extra petal and sepal. instead of a total of 6 flower parts this one has 8. these show up randomly from time to time. and sometimes if one chooses well two flowers can produce seed that do this on a more frequent basis. so next summer we will try to find the right flower to cross with this one. and hope…

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under the black walnut tree

this garden was planted two years ago. it is shaded during portions of the day by the black walnut tree. and if you look at the top edge of the photo the afternoon sun is still shining. while it may be sleeping now images like this still linger in my mind…

if we had something to sip on this would be an excellent time and place to grab a chair and relax.

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sib ?

is this the sibling to yesterday’s flower ? yes. as much as the seedling yesterday is similar to its pod parent Dark Counterpoint todays seedling is similar to its pollen parent Skinwalker. pictures from the whole family…

sib to Patrick Harold Wallace

Patrick Harold Wallace

Dark Counterpoint pod parent

Skinwalker pollen parent

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which way did that muse go ?

so i have a pretty flower do i really need a muse too ? yes, yes, and yes again. that is unless everyday is to be wordless wednesday. today’s flower is Patrick Harold Wallace a spidery thing out of Skinwalker. the actual cross is Dark Counterpoint x Skinwalker. Skinwalker is one of my favorites for crossing. not as much as Smoke Scream still it is up there on the list. while i was writing this i checked the daylily database for plants with Skinwalker for one of the parents. there are 133 plants registered with Skinwalker as a parent. of those only four are listed as pod parent. the rest are all pollen parent. genetically speaking some things are more difficult than others…

Patrick Harold Wallace

Dark Counterpoint

Skinwalker

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it is just a daylily

you look at one daylily and you look at another. yes it is just another daylily. unless you are not in a hurry. unless you are stopping to smell the roses er daylilies. (sorry many daylilies have limited fragrance poetic license at work here.) unless you are really letting the daylilies sink into your retinas and consciousness. often one daylily has strong resemblances to another. unless you are looking deeper and one nuance of another excites your senses. often the reason a certain flower catches your attention is difficult to put into words. that would be the case with today’s flower. what makes this flower not like the other ones ? for me the words are finally coming for it. this flower has a great big eyezone. so big that it is pushing almost to the edge of the petals. and unlike many flowers where the dark veins are outside the eyezone here the dark veins are inside the eyezone…

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stage left

i think it was the cartoon pink panther that was fond of giving stage directions. as in exit stage left. not exiting this flower is holding its place stage left. as i sit typing this a large brown cervidae ( aka deer ) trotted by the window. and here i thought they had left the neighborhood. foolish me. the garden is very much cleared so he, yes a nice set of antlers, kept right on going across the street and into the neighbor’s yard. now back to this flower. something of a large bright red in the morning sunshine. and if you look closely it is admiring its own shadow. the stamens and pistil are repeated on the left side of the flower…

wait just a little bit longer

this is one of my favorite flowers. except for one thing. it finishes blooming too quickly…

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de-composting

well that perplexed the ai/spellchecker. decomposting does not seem to be in the vocabulary. then again at one point no words were in the vocabulary. in the words of one curmudgeon feed that to your ai. the vocabulary continues to evolve. and the compost pile continues to devolve and decompost. sadly it no longer fits into my gardening plans. so out it goes. it sat mostly untouched in 2024. and now it is being touched on its way out. it has served its purpose however now i no longer have the energy to keep up with its slow ways. because i am even slower that it. disassembly has taken some time. the compost bins were partially filled. all four of them. and they are generously sized 5 feet wide, 5 feet deep, and 5 feet tall. that would be about 1.5 m in metric terms. the compost had to be cleared from each post to remove them. and the slow aged gardner contracted for removal is gradually making making progress. another couple days or whatever it takes and it will be done. and the garden is better for it having been here. even the slow aged gardener is better for it having been here… even one step better than chopping wood. and to keep with the theme of notable change points the final seed pod harvested from the 2025 garden and one of the last ( so far ) blooms of 2025 Keeper of the Flame. a little rough for the chilly weather and a appreciated all the more for it…

decomposted bins

slow curmudgeon

2025’s last seedpod harvest

late season version of Keeper of the Flame

big purple

this is a big 10 inch 25 cm flower. one of the best things about daylilies is the come in lots of sizes big, small, and lots of sizes in between…

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