daylily rescue

When the summer begins I stop at garden centres and rescue daylilies. I can plant them at any time. These places go for the spring trade and then poor little plants get relegated to the reduced-to-clear bin; such an indignity for such a noble flower. I hope to drive home again tomorrow for a few days. This time there will be the cats, a daylily, and me in the hot car. I have a field by the Bay for abandoned day lilies. Consider the lilies of the field....

gardens

I visited the gardens at Red Lane and Cornhill - and learnt a lot about marketing the product just from walking around and observing. There were two very different approaches. Someday I may have a little daylily business of my own. This picture is from Cornhill.

yucky day

It seems like the end of September and not August at all. And I know that we'll never get these lost days back. It's cool and cloudy and a bit of rain every day. So here's another daylily from my garden. This is Apricot Delight. Tomorrow is my day off, so I'm going to Prince Edward Island to see a large daylily commercial garden and I'll be back the day after that.

Alice Ziesa

Rain everyday and more rain to come; I drove into Saint John today for a meeting at the hospital and then I drove back. I still haven't seen the city. So I'm doing some daylily dreaming before I get into writing my sermon. This is my 86th daylily, which is growing back home in Nova Scotia. Its name is "Alice Ziesa".