Mom's Birthday

We had mom's birthday party at our house this past summer..I am little late getting the photos up. Can you tell what her favorite present was? (I will give you a hint...it was NOT the red boots :0)

Cherokee North Carolina

These are just a few of the many pictures we took on our one year anniversary trip! We went to Cherokee NC and stayed in grandma's camper from Friday to Tuesday. We had a great time, and are now home for three days, then turn around and go to Hilton Head from Saturday until Wednesday! UGGGG.....I mean I want to go somewhere, but not all at onece :0) We couldn't really hep this one though...it is a company trip for Bryon.

Daylily Bed turned Memory Bed

OK...so here we have a before and after picture of the bed. I tell ya when I get something in my head that I am gonna do, it WILL be done :0) I first scraped up all the grass, then began laying out stones. Then I put up a sort of barrier under the fence so that all of my soil would not go under, and to keep it looking nice. The soil in place was already pretty good...but because it is so hard to dig in our yard (only a few inches), I added some so that I would not have to dig down quite so deep making it easier. Last week I went around and labeled all the flowering daylilies in thy yard so that I would know what color they all were. This week, when I was ready to begin planting, all I had to do was look at the tags for the ones not blooming to be able to place them in the bed where I wanted them to go. I started with some red cana lilies in the back that I just bought off ebay (thery are bulbs, but beginning to sprout) to give the bed some height in the back you can not see right now....try to picture it ...........are you trying..........ok....well I know that it is hard right now but they will be taller than the daylilies and have deep red tones with banana type green leaves. I read in my new Souhern Living Garden Book that cana lilies and daylilies are a perfect pair because of the types of leaves they have. I really was not thinking about that, but hummmm...pretty good! I was really thinkning about the bright colors. I placed the red with orange center daylilies next, and then a double orange ruffle, then yellows in the middle, and lastly some pinks and whites on the sides. The yellows have already bloomed, but I still have lots of orange tones blooming and some pinks that have to bloom yet. I added a double blooming knockout rose in the middle towards the front (I bought from Wessingers back in April). I then placed double wave petunias in purple and purple heart beind the knockout rose.....wow what a color combo! I looove the oranges and the purples together.....they really set each other off. I added some peonies on the very far right and left, making this an ecclectic bed in the end. And now to the reason I call this the memory bed.....and this really gives me an idea as I write this.....most of the flowers in that bed are from my grandmothers old gardens. The daylilies, Easter lilies, and the peonies are what make up the majority of the bed and so therfore I want to refer to it as the memory bed. I bought a kit that you can make stone with words on them. I might put my little bird bath in there and under it put a stone that would dedicate the garden to her. What should I write...."In memory of Arlene Lake " ? I feel like I am leaving out papa though...even though he didn't really get into plants...well besides his forced relationship with the magnolia tree....umm....ok...how bout "In memory of J. & A. Lake" yeah....that could work. :0)

I have added the way the garden looks now...it gre like crazy this season!

First E-Bay purchase!

Daylily Red Ribbons 2 fans 8" Red Spider


Sugar Candy 2 fans 5" Dark Orchid/Orange throat

Last night I was on E-Bay looking around like I sometimes do, and decided to bid on something! I saw some really pretty daylilies and thought I would give it a try...I missed the first four I bid on because I didn't know what I was doing, but then won two! My husband was looking this way for a while, and then right when there was 45 seconds left on the auction he came over here to see what I was doing. GREAT! I was trying to do this without him knowing....he thinks I spend too much money on flowers :0) Needless to say I missed that particular auction because we were arguing about I didn't need it, and I didn't know how to bid on it right...oh well! Next time I will have to flower shop when he isn't at home :0) Here are the two I won!

Daylilies! A New Day, A New Bed!

Wow the daylilies are beautiful right now. My grandmother had a large collection of daylilies when we moved into the house, and I am seeing all the colors and styles now as they are beginning to bloom. There are a lot of dark red with an orange center, and there are some orange ones. There is a really pretty peach, yellow, and just last night I found a yellow trimmed in purple with a purple center behind the AC unit. I dug it up, because it is desperate need of some TLC. It had two blooms on it, but had very little green leaves. It is so ot and dry on that side of the house, so I am going to see if I can transplant it and "Miracle Grow" it to make it look better. I am going to start a daylily bed in front of the well house....I have to go around and dig them all up right now, now that I know what they are. I am going to tr and space them out to make a pretty pattern...I let you know how it goes....I will take some pictures of the blooms now, and where they are now, andthen a picture of where I plan to put them. A before and after! Get Excited (while I get sunburned and a heat stroke!)

There is a pink getting ready to bloom I think....if I remeber correctly from last year....and there was a really ruffly double orange one last night too that is not blooming this morning...maybe it will open up later in the day and I can get a shot of that one too....