The Daylilies Have Been Busy

I posted on June 9 about the first daylily and in that post I said, “The first day they bloom with only one flower, never more. Then three, then seven, then in a few days dozens all at once. And then it’s summer!”

And that’s exactly how it worked—10 days later the entire row of daylilies blooming along the sidewalk in front of my house has been opening waving in the breeze and filling the street view with color. And they had been for a few days before I took these photos. They aren’t native, and they are considered invasive, but I didn’t know that when I dug them up along the railroad tracks back in the 80s. I thought they were some wild exotic species. Well, they put on their show for a while, then they die back nearly to the ground, then quickly sprout new grassy fronds and wait for next year, making a great backdrop for shorter plants or front-drop for taller plants.

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