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Savoring the Four Seasons with Daylilies

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Savoring is the art of being in the moment and totally immersing ourselves into an experience.  It means no multi-tasking or thinking about chores.  It also includes planning for experiences, as well as reminiscing about the past good times.

So, today my yard takes on all of the above.  Here are my in the moment blooms:

Apache Uprising:

 

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Apache Unrising – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Royal Palace Prince:

 

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Royal Palace Prince – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Fairy Tale Pink:

 

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Fairy Tale Pink – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Marque Moon:

 

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Marque Moon – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Orange Flurry:

 

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Orange Flurry – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Stella do Oro:

 

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Stella de Oro – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

In savoring the 2016 daylily season, I write this blog.  Last night, I actually looked through every post I made this summer.  It will be so cool to read back on things this winter, while I am painting these beauties.  I have tile paintings of Inwood, Cheddar Cheese and Route 66 in my room.  I said I didn’t want to ever have a day of the year where I didn’t wake up to daylily blooms.  And, so it is.  I cannot wait to add a few paintings of my new Ned Roberts Spiders.

And, that is a perfect segway into savoring through planning.  I have a few interventions for my Ned Roberts garden to start this month.  Things to empower more blooms next year.  Last night, I also found a Ned Roberts spider that is pretty rare on the auction, and put in a bid (it’s under $10).  I got my potted ones planted yesterday . . . the ones that were only temporarily in pots.  And, I fertilized.  It’s all part of beginning to savor next season.

The seasons of savoring daylilies:

Spring: Looking for the baby fans, cleaning out beds, watering on nice days, fertilize a little, early bloomers show-up!

Summer: Bloom fest! Photography and active blogging. Savor each colorful bloom.  Also, water, weeds, insects, and dead-heading.

Fall: Savor the late bloomers. Take time to smell each one.  Begin preparing beds for fall.  Fall planting.  Begin to consider which cultivators will make the best paintings.

Winter: Break out the paints!  Be creative – what new ways can daylilies be painted objects that I see every day during the cold, bleak months?  Paint daylilies on pumpkins.  Hey, what about daylily ornaments?  (I just thought of that one and need to consider how I might accomplish that before Christmas.) I love the daylily solar lights in my garden.  More for this winter, too.  Oh, the list goes on.  And, hey, what about searching for a few rare daylilies to add to my garden in the spring?  Look, winter is the busiest season of savoring of all!

 

 

Sweet the Rains New Fall

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Cool, rainy weather is welcome after a month of pretty warm weather.  Still, I dread the end of daylily season.  Summer is the time when I live outdoors.  My daylilies get love and attention at some cost to my routine housekeeping duties.  And, when it is not daylilies, it is hedge, lawn, veggie garden, or weeds.  And, then there is school and the job search.  However, arranging my day to increase positive emotion means time with the daylilies . . . broaden and build.

So, today is a low-census day in the daylily garden.  The blooms rest as the rain falls.  Still, I have baby scapes starting on some . . . like the May ones on most of my plants.  Can I extend my bloom for two more months?  Until first freeze?  We will see . . . always a stretch goal.  When it comes to goals, I am a maximizer.  Or so say my Gallup strengths.

So, for today, there is Fine Time Lucille:

 

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Fine Time Lucille – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt.

 

Fairy Tale Pink:

 

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Fairy Tale Pink – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Royal Palace Prince:

 

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Royal Palace Prince – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Orange Flurry:

 

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Orange Flurry – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Both yellow and orange Stella de Oros:

 

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Yellow Stella de Oro – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

 

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Orange Stella – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

And, little Purple de Oro:

 

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Purple de Oro – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Tomorrow is another day . . . and my focus may just turn to transplanting some of my potted daylilies into the garden.  If the rain stops.

Praise for the Sweetness of the Wet Garden

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The rain came.  Finally.  Not much monsoon activity this year . . . so the big, cool storm is welcome.  I got up reasonably early and several of the flowers had not bloomed all the way. Cool, wet weather.  It is a nice break.

I’m two months into this daylily journey 2016.  I hope for another two.  It won’t peak again, but plateaus are good, too.  And, then, comes the paintings.  The cool weather and the presence of my granddaughter put me in the mood, a little.  Ah, but alas, homework calls. Because the grandkids will be back through Sunday on their way home and due dates loom.

Enjoy the collage for today!  This weekend, I am also going to try to sink some of my smaller potted daylilies into the ground.  The rain will be good prep for that chore.

 

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From L to R: Top Row – Stella de Oro, Orange Flurry, Prelude to Love, Royal Palace Prince, Marque Moon. Second Row – El Desperado, Primal Scream, Apache Uprising, Purple de Oro.  Bottom – Pizza Crust.

 

 

Like a Box of Chocolates!

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So, today I applied for two more jobs and tomorrow my family comes.  After that, it is some catch-up work with school.  I can’t believe I am done in 6 weeks – I’ll have my Doctorate in Nursing Practice!  It’s wonderful and frightening.  The downside of online school is that it can be isolating.  It seems especially pronounced now that we are almost done.

So, I promise myself one trip away from the dogs every couple of days.  It gets me out with real humans and no leashes.  Now, I love my dogs but I also enjoy feeling human.  So, today I visited a local nursery that is having a plant sale.  Four dollar daylilies – cool.  I’ve decided to put Stellas in a couple more of my containers so they have season long bloomers.  It may be good motivation to water them more – and get more blooms from the more specialty plants.

So, welcome to the yard Orange Flurry (in bloom today with scapes and buds):

 

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Orange Flurry – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

And, another couple of Stellas.  I thought it might be interesting to show the ones I got over the weekend with the new one.  The new one is definitely more orange tone.

The other new ones have buds and scapes, but not in bloom today . . . so we wait.  And one is a mystery label one, so like Forest Gump said . . .

Other blooms are Pizza Crust:

 

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Pizza Crust – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Lime Frost:

 

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Lime Frost – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Marque Moon:

 

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Marque Moon – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Prelude to Love:

 

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Prelude to Love – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Orange Vols:

 

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Orange Vols – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

El Desperado:

 

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El Desperado – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

Royal Palace Prince:

 

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Royal Palace Prince – Photo by Colorado Kid Daylilies – C. Hartt

 

With any luck, I’ll have blooms until Jack Frost shows.  Here is to hoping I have a job by then, too! And, by next spring there will be more flourishing at my home than ever!