I have decided to join the blogging craze. I am looking forward to taking a moment to find out a little more about the plants I have been photographing. I hope to explore all aspects of plants, flowers, trees and other garden related topics. Sorry about having to watermark the photos but there are a lot of people using them without permission.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Daylily - 'Mint Condition'
Daylily
Hemerocallis 'Mint Condition'
(hem-er-oh-KAL-iss)
Hemerocallidaceae
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It has been a week or so since a Daylily was posted here so here we go again. The Daylilies bloomed so beautifully this year. Two years ago I did a big Daylily planting (the garden was fenced for deer) and this year when I went back it was amazing to see how much they had grown. Everywhere I went this summer it seemed there would be a lot of Daylilies. Maybe the conditions were favorable but it could also been that the flowers always bloom like that and I just noticed.
‘Mint Condition’ is a beautiful butter yellow diploid Daylily. It was introduced in 1983. It is quite tall and had a nice texture to the ruffled flowers.
This is kind of what I mean about seeing Daylilies everywhere. I pulled into an abandon commercial building near Westchester County Airport to make a phone call and there was an ocean of Daylilies blooming. Only a small patch is represented here it continued for several hundred feet and was across the street also. It was quite a nice red cultivar. There was also huge plantings of yellow and orange. They were perfect and had no maintenance.
Sorry I haven’t had the time to respond to all the comments but wanted to say to everyone thanks for leaving them. It makes this space so much more enjoyable for me.
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7 comments:
Lovely! In the past couple of years I've planted quite a few daylilies. Love the yellow ones especially!
Gorgeous!
Definitely mint condition...Love the vivid yellow. I can almost touch the 'velvety-ness' of it. Wow.
Mine's posted. Drop by, won't you? Have a great day.
Great photos - like the close ups.
WW by Simone's Butterfly
So very pretty. You shoot some beautiful photos!
awesome shots, Chris
I do love that coppery-colored day lily. I've started seeing some round here lately. They're not as splashy as some colors but perhaps you could call them sophisticated -- or just plain beautiful.
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