The 90 Degree Heat And Humidity Is On, Lilies Bursting In Beauty

Trumpet Lilies are my favorite lily. The sent is outstanding.
The colors on the inside and outside are exquisite.

Orange Trumpet Lilies are Giants compared to the yellow Trumpet Lily in background. Their beauty almost shouts its heavenly message Rejoice and Be Glad !

The Yellow Trumpet Lily sings its own song July is for Joy, Joy in all creation.

The Lily is the King of the gardens. It stops me in my tracks, visitors oh and ah over them as they discover their beauty when touring the gardens. I want to keep them blooming all seasons, but of course they have their time and place as we all do. This yellow one is so pretty on the outside with the stripes.

The pink lily has outdone itself this year. With a little fertilizer that has the high number in the middle for flowers I put on the gardens this spring, the heat and plenty of thunder storms with a bountiful supply of rain. It has held it bloom almost the whole month of July. The deep magenta color of the phlox partners up nicely with the lily. Instead of demanding attention it compliments many of the other flowers of the garden. You can see the yellow day-lily in the back also adds to the a-ha to the setting.

The lovely yellow day-lily with the soft yellow white stripe and ruffled petals
has a little darker throat.
All so sure of itself it doesn't have to shout out it's song, merely hums it.
A compliment to the center Asiatic lily creamy peach with edges having a touch darker shade.

There are many different kinds of day lilies. This one is a Spider day lily with a deep throat of yellow reaching up towards the top of the rosy petals.

There are some day lilies with a thick petal adding a white stripe and very ruffled like the peach colored day lily with a greenish accent to the yellow throat in the below picture.

These giant golden orange have multiple shades of color and contrasting with the
Rudbeckia daises you can see how huge they are. I always have to stake them
because the large clusters are very heavy.

Above day-lilies have a fun combination of yellow and Orange-red petals with the
yellow stripe and every other petal all yellow. It has a fun name too but no longer know it.

This day-lily is stunning even being smaller with the deep wine color and pink stripe.

The throat looks almost like someone

turned on a light! Love the gorgeous shading of color on its petals and pink stripe.

The deep wine, reds, and red-oranges really stand out in the garden and I
usually put a lot of light colors around it to accent it's grandeur.

Asiatic Hybrid Lily hang down making it hard to get its picture

Novelty Lily star shaped.

Small White day-lily with the red wine color accenting the green throat

Again a White Day-Lily with halo of lite purple outlining the yellow green throat.

Red cluster of Day-lilies certainly catch your eye in the gardens.

The Day-lilies' flowers only last one day but cluster with many buds on plants to continue their display.

The Asiatic Lilies come from bulbs, the daylily comes from a plant. Most times the

Asiatic Lily is planted in fall, but I often see a balb in spring and plant it then. The

daylily can be planted anytime but spring and fall is easier on them because of

the heat in mid summer.

The yellow and white daylily with yellow stripe is a double with thinner petals. You may

see the old fashioned orange daylily double too, but most times the day-lily is in single form.

My gardens are planted very close together. That is just the way I do things. Others might have eight inches of soil showing around each plant. I do not follow anyone's rules about what to do, just do my thing. It is only wrong in

someone else opinion. I have had my gardens in Garden Walks which are about 5-6 different owned gardens open for a fee for charity. I have had my own tours open on Saturdays. At this time I am open to anyone going through if they call before, or friends come anytime and we stroll through the gardens while we talk and catch up on news. Gardens are to be enjoyed in any way you want. I use to be in Master Gardner's for 26 years and followed rules. Then in retiring I decided some rules are made to be broken and do as you please. :) Just enjoy life, use your gardens in any way you want.

Just Enjoying Life

Thanking My Great Creator