Starting over in the front yard.
Don't know if any of you recall my pictures from last year when I had the old black plastic pond. It leaked, drew mosquitoes, and had become an all-out mess!
We tore out the whole landscape last fall and -bit-by-bit- added new (small, young) plants in starting over.
It made me sad to see some of the beautiful plants go but little by little we'll have a better landscape, I believe.
I keep telling myself it'll be fun. Right?
And -as far as my daylilies? Well, the winter kicked my butt on daylilies, folks!
At first, I thought I'd sneaked by with little damage or loss -but I guess God didn't see fit to spare me.
I lost -after checking many many times this spring- and I have lost well over 20 daylilies.
I must add this, tho...the ones I wound up losing were very small fans of newly planted ones. Plus, they were planted extremely late in the fall (late as November) so they didn't have time to get settled and establish roots to feed off of.
Totally my fault.
The others I lost -about 6 of them- were in pots I had carelessly left out in the open. They froze and turned to mush.
I'm doing the best I can to nurse the remaining garden to health.
Seems to me -and maybe some of you are experiencing this, yourself- the season is either late in blooming or they plants are stunted from the winter's freeze.
I'm just not seeing many blooms.
However, on a light note -maybe, this is all good for the daylily biz. Maybe, the growers can sell more daylilies this year with everyone replacing their daylily losses.
Maybe, we can all be nudged (forced) to try new varieties of daylilies.
I'm ambivalent about the season....miss the blooms.....looked forward to the blooms and they're not here like I hoped.
Man, things just have to get better!
Well...here are the pictures......
One of the roses I raised from a cutting...it's some kind of old-fashioned-looking hybrid..it's really fragrant.
An iris I transplanted last fall. Dang thing bloomed! Happily surprised.
Clear Mountain Morning. Just got it a few days ago. Like it, a lot! It already had buds on it upon arrival.
Parrot Jungle (at least it didn't freeze and die....and it was even able to produce a bloom ...which I'm grateful for).
Another shot from the road at the position of the new fountain we installed. Just glad the pond is gone! Love the new fountain. I think it was a good decision.
