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Celebrate Our Contest Winner and Enjoy February Floral Discounts

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It’s been 5 months since I last posted. It is time to catch up with my followers!

Contest Winner Announcement

First of all, I want to congratulate the winner of our Until the Last Daylily Blooms contest. Deanna put in a guess for mid-September and I had one Stella de Oro bloom that landed near to her guess. Deanna chose to use her $35 towards a handmade clock that she gave to her friend. Her friend runs a gift shop in Delta called Colorado Gallery and Gifts that has such a fun collection of decor. Please take a minute to visit Colorado Gallery and Gifts page on Facebook and stop by her store if you are in town!

In November, I met with Deanna at my booth at Country Flair to give her the clock. She picked one of my favorite pour-paint clocks for her friend! If you like this style of clock, I have several available at my Etsy, Shopify, and GoImagine shop and at Country Flair! Please check it out!

She also purchased a bromeliad in a handmade hypertufa pot for her home. It looks so beautiful and I wanted to share it with you.

Flowers For February Sale 2025

It’s winter. Let’s not let it deflate the gardener in us! So, I put everything related to flowers and plants on sale in my Etsy store! That includes daylily art, planters, and cards/notecards! It is all 25% off from 2/13-3/13/2025. Please come visit and check out the selection today!

With that, I will see you in a month or two, when it is time to start prepping for daylily season. How are you passing your winter until then?

Check out my business website for updates on my products and sales – Art from the Hartt! If you have questions please email me at cathy@artfromthehartt.com

Cathy H

Capturing Exquisite Daylily Photography: Tools and Techniques

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Hot Fun!

It’s the time of the season for heat. The monsoons have evaporated for the last week or two. It’s 94 today, suppose to be 100 on Sunday. I wonder what the temp spike will do for my cultivators but also look forward to a mountain get-away from the heat wave next week.

Nurse’s Stethoscope

Buttered Popcorn, Anyone?

It’s odd to only have one first-of-the-season bloom on a day like today. But, perhaps a good day to think about Buttered Popcorn. Or maybe it is just that it is 5:30 already and I am getting hungry. Too hot to walk the dogs for an hour or so. Dinner is a ways off. Buttered popcorn – YES! Can I DoorDash that? LOL.

Buttered Popcorn

Daylily Photography Processes and Improvements

I am curious what other daylily photographers are using for their photos. I use to use my Canon Powershot and had no complaints. Except, I had to download the photos and edit them to upload them to my online drive. As my daylily collection grew, my time for photo editing shrunk.

All American Chief

I then shifted to my Kindle for a year or two because of the large screen for focus. It worked OK, but was an awkward size and getting the photos to the online drive was still a pain.

Papa Longlegs

Now, I use my Samsung Galaxy A52. The camera is decent. I honestly don’t see much difference between it and the Canon for my purposes, and I think it is better than the Kindle. It’s easy to upload to my online drive, share to social media, and even blog from my phone (although I prefer my PC for blogging.) Since I use my photos as a tracking method and daylily art reference, I find it adequate and time-efficient. I’m not after super high-quality photographic images to sell.

Pandora’s Box

I would love to hear from other daylily bloggers and photographers about their camera and daily photo process.

Add a Splash of Color to Your Space!

Speaking of daylily art – my original paintings and art prints are on sale ALL SUMMER at my Until the Last Daylily Blooms sale on Etsy. This one of Chief Four Fingers is one of my favorites. The original was acrylic on tile, giving this painting a unique texture. The signed prints look adorable in an 8X8 frame and add a splash of color to any space! Click this link or the photo to go to the Etsy listing! Only $9 currently!!!

Chief Four Fingers daylily signed print.

Daylily and Coleus, together in pots

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Today brought no new bloomers to my yard and only 23 total cultivators in bloom. That sounds like late June (except we have better color variety in late July).

The peak is done and my garden looks empty. I grow my daylilies in the downtown area of my community and don’t have a back yard. So, when my yard looks a bit empty it feels like my entire home is less beautiful.

Last year, I tried an experiment of putting coleus in my boring driveway pots. They thrived so I took cuttings before freeze and replanted the new plants this spring. And, I added more – thinking I might be able to sell them. Well, they haven’t been too popular for sales (probably too late in the season). I also added some new ones to my daylily pots earlier.

Today, I took more baby plants from cuttings out and placed them in my front planters. This is a good time for the coleus because the heat is less intense. They add a different look to the planters and give the yard some extra color. I like them because they are true annuals, so they don’t try to take over the pot. Yet, they come in a ton of interesting shapes and colors. They require similar water and light as the daylilies. And, in the fall, I can take more cuttings to use next year. Maybe if I start my cuttings in February, I can sell them before the garden stores have a zillion.

What do you put in pots with your daylilies?

Would you like to have daylily blooms year round? Learn more about my daylily (and nature) art business – Art (and Nature from the Hartt