Orange Daylilies

Underneath the Elm tree, just over the path from the Apple Tree Border, I grow the most beautiful double orange daylilies. The clump is forever expanding in size.

Bright yet subtle in colour, the daylilies grow right on the edge by a (usually) well-mowed green grass lawn. They are, I think, a species variety.

Daylily Grooming

Daylily grooming is the most relaxing way to pass time. Each bloom lasts just one day - well, the name certainly suggests this.

Mid-Summer Flowers

Dreaming about everything and nothing and casually picking the spent petals - this is the mid-summer holiday mood. Since I walk right past every day on my journey to feed the hens, I can always stop to do a spot of daylily grooming.

If these lovely flowers were always called by their proper name - Hemocrallis - people might grow them more! A flower for just one day seems rather mean-spirited!