There are a number of unusual happenings in my gardens, and I've always wondered what they could really be about. I'm not sure that they are due to any illnesses, bugs, neglect (no way! lol), or even full moons ... just a hodgepodge of "sightings" that keep tickling the back of my head.
I'd welcome anyone's input where they have seen something different going on that resembles something here, or found something that might explain it, or might even be able to offer tips on what to do about it (if anything at all ... some of these occurrences keep my gardening days quite interesting ... as you'll see, they each have earned garden names due to their unique behavior - I'm not sure I really want to disturb them if I don't need to).
Anyone else who's drawing a blank on something odd in their daylily garden that they can't automatically ascribe to illness, bugs, etc., is very welcome to post their own pics of mysteriously behaving plants!
Here's the first one; meet The Three Stigmas of Eve:
Eve has an advanced case of what I often find in my garden - split stigmas. Usually I see just one of the three tubes that make up the stigma split off from the other two. I normally pollinate any/all of the tubes, assuming that they each lead to a repository for one of the three lobes that turn into a unified pod. But, I've never really kept track of whether the pollination takes, whether any pod might result that matures with at least one or two healthy and fruitful lobes, or whether any buds just abort.
Anyone here ever met a friend of Eve's, and kept track closely enough to find out what was going on?
