Daylily

May 14, 2008 Blue pot with dianthus Can a garden you’ve visited only three times, briefly, seem almost as familiar as your own? It can if it’s Tom Spencer’s. At Soul of the Garden, Tom has been chronicling his garden—and “exploring the garden of life”—with stunning photographs and introspective essays ...

May 14, 2008 Blue pot with dianthus Can a garden you’ve visited only three times, briefly, seem almost as familiar as your own? It can if it’s Tom Spencer’s. At Soul of the Garden, Tom has been chronicling his garden—and “exploring the garden of life”—with stunning photographs and introspective essays ...

May 06, 2008 ‘Best of Friends’ daylilies with the stock-tank planter containing silver ponyfoot, squid agave, Manfreda ‘Macho Mocha,’ and Hinckley’s columbine Spring and summer are vying for dominance in Austin this week. One day it’s in the 70s and a cool north wind is blowing. The next, it’s a ...

May 04, 2008 The first daylily opened today, ‘Best of Friends.’ Speaking of friends, check out the newest Austin garden blogger, Philip at East-Side-Patch. Welcome to the garden-blogging community, Philip! All material © 2006-2008 by Pam Penick for Digging. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited ...

June 08, 2007 ‘Apple Tart,’ my last daylily to bloom. It’s really summer this week—though blissfully late this year. Summer often knocks on Austin’s door, dropping six heavy suitcases in the hall, in early May, sometimes even April. By September, it has worn out its welcome but persists in hanging ...

May 25, 2007 ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ is my showy yellow daylily. Its banana-yellow-and-rusty-red flowers splash pockets of bright color under the cedar elm in the back garden. Yak, yak, yak. Don’t they look like two gossips who haven’t seen each other in a while? ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ complements the low-growing, red-flowering Texas ...

May 25, 2007 ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ is my showy yellow daylily. Its banana-yellow-and-rusty-red flowers splash pockets of bright color under the cedar elm in the back garden. Yak, yak, yak. Don’t they look like two gossips who haven’t seen each other in a while? ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ complements the low-growing, red-flowering Texas ...

May 23, 2007 I used to have seven varieties of daylilies, but more than half have faded away over time, victims, perhaps, of Austin’s intense summer heat and droughts or simply poor placement. Adios, ‘Hall’s Pink,’ ‘Hyperion,’ ‘Bonanza,’ and ‘Joan Senior.’ The remaining three—‘Best of Friends,’ ‘Apple Tart,’ and ‘Wilson’s ...

May 23, 2007 I used to have seven varieties of daylilies, but more than half have faded away over time, victims, perhaps, of Austin’s intense summer heat and droughts or simply poor placement. Adios, ‘Hall’s Pink,’ ‘Hyperion,’ ‘Bonanza,’ and ‘Joan Senior.’ The remaining three—‘Best of Friends,’ ‘Apple Tart,’ and ‘Wilson’s ...

May 21, 2007 ‘Wilson’s Yellow’ daylily opened over the weekend. Doesn’t this one seem to be holding a cup of sunlight? The vitex tree in the front garden is in full bloom. Though it’s also known as chaste lilac, unlike true lilac it offers no scent—just purple spires. But those ...

May 17, 2007 Salvia guaranitica—love those blues! I’ve been covering Gardens on Tour 2007 all week, and I have one more to show you tomorrow (my favorite of the bunch, actually), but I decided to give you a little tour of my own garden today. It differs from my Bloom ...

May 19, 2006 Overnight or early this morning the first sphinx moth emerged from the soil in the butterfly enclosure. I was excited to see it there, resting quietly on one of the walls. I placed a damp paper towel and a few stalks of gaura and Indigo Spires salvia ...

May 08, 2006 The first Wilson’s Yellow daylily opened after the heavy rains. It’s a bright spot of color amid the blues in this partly shady spot. The other daylilies are starting to bloom too. Here is Best of Friends, a little battered from the storms but still cheerful. The ...

May 28, 2005Here are some spring photos of the front garden. Purple coneflowers, artemesia, and four-nerve daisy ‘Carefree Beauty’ rose View across front garden from driveway Kids’ garden: Mexican feathergrass, zexmenia, and Blackfoot daisy ‘Belinda’s Dream’ rose And from the back garden, the first daylily to bloom . . ...