Sorting photos of daylilies . . .  People ask me how I keep them straight.  Well, I don’t always but I generally do OK because I have some systems to help.  First, I have a garden map that I created a couple years ago.  It is awesome, it has circles for each daylily in my Southwest Garden with the color of each daylily.  And, they have letters/numbers.  You can look up the letter/number and see the daylily name with a photo.

The other system is metal markers that have paint pen on them.  Want to know a little secret – if you spray them with engine spray after you paint the name on it stays on for years!!!

So, if one system fails, I have the other.  As I go through old photos, though, there is a system that works even if it has been a while since you took the photo.  Well, look at the company it keeps.  I look for landscaping or other plants.  I look for other daylilies – what is the backdrop.  Usually, I can figure it out.  I did make a couple mistakes on Treasure of the Southwest (confused with Soco Gap) that I need to go back and fix.

It feels good to be sort of caught up.  But, I realize how different this year is as far as photography.  Previous years, I took my phone photos to post on Facebook or if I didn’t have time to download from the camera.  I used the camera to get multiple shots of each bloom – especially new blooms and last blooms.  This year, both the cell and camera only have one photo of each cultivator/day except in a few cases.  That means if the daylily was blooming during my trip, I may only have a photo or two of it for the whole year – half a dozen max.

Perhaps I can enjoy snapping a few more photos now that the trips are done and I have my photosystem for the year up and running.  I had 65 total, today.  The peak is still with us.  Anyway – not quite so many Premiers today.  Here they are:

Apache Uprising 7/22

Marque Moon

Red Hot Returns 7/22

Zuni Eye 7/22

Oh, and my amazing Easter Lily Cactus bloomed today.  Like daylilies, the blooms only last one day.  Enjoy each moment for it will never return.