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About Me
- kris
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- My passion is gardening - but I also enjoy kayaking, reading, cooking, travel, and playing with the two poodles who live with us. Email me at kkgardens AT gmail DOT com.
Blogs I Enjoy Checking Out
- A Study in Contrasts
- Abenteuer Garten
- Ahah...Le Jardin de Marandon
- Baking Blondie (Jessy and her dog Winnie)
- Beach(s)
- Books and Cooks
- Dream Just a LIttle More
- Edge Effect
- Enjoying My Every Day Life
- Farming Friends
- Firefly Nights
- GardenPunks
- Gingerbread
- Green Thumb Chronicles
- Greenie Gardens
- growing things
- Guildwood Gardens - Gardening with Love
- Kate smudges in earth, paint and life
- Ledge and Gardens
- Letters from a Hill Farm
- Lost Roses
- Lynne's Little Corner of the World
- Miss Flower
- Mountain Time
- MsGreenThumbJean
- My Country-Rose-Garden
- My Iowa Garden
- My Serenity Garden
- My Wildlife Sanctuary
- Nature Trail
- ndgardengirl
- Notes from a Cottage Garden
- One Year of Beauty
- Outside
- Over the back yard fence
- Paris Breakfasts
- Peacock Blue
- Perennial Passion
- Rosehaven Cottage
- Rurality
- Shabby-Chic Cat's Gardening Close-Ups!
- Susie's Space
- Tales From a Little FrenchGardenHouse
- The Giddy Garden Gnome
- THE KITTALOG
- The Rustic Garden
- those northern skies
- Thyme for Herbs
- Tip of the Iceberg
- Tristi Pinkston
- Upper Michigan Quilter
- Violetlady At Home
- Zoe Bakes (eat dessert first)
My Favorite Public Gardens
- Univ of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum - Chaska, MN
- Noerenberg Gardens - Orono, MN
- Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden - Minneapolis, MN
- The Rose Garden - Lake Harriet - Minneapolis, MN
- The Tuileries - Paris, France
- Versailles - France
- The Keukenhof Gardens - The Netherlands
- Filoli - San Francisco, CA
- The Huntington Botanical Gardens - Los Angeles, CA
- Los Angeles County Arboretum - Los Angeles, CA
- The Getty - Los Angeles, CA
My Roses
- Apothecary's Rose (Gallica) (1310 or earlier)
- Charles de Mills (Gallica) (1746 or earlier)
- Alfred de Dalmas (moss rose) (1855)
- Fantin-Latour (cabbage rose) (1900??)
- Rosa rugosa rubra (species) (very old)
- Gertrude Jekyll (shrub - David Austin) (1986)
- Nearly Wild (floribunda) (1941)
- Madison (shrub - Town & Country) (1998??)
- Belle Poitevine (shrub - rugosa) (1894)
- Souvenir de Philemon Cochet (shrub - rugosa) (1899)
- Magnifica (shrub - rugosa) (1905)
- Fru Dagmar Hastrup (Frau Dagmar Hartopp) (Shrub - rugosa) (1914)
- Therese Bugnet (shrub - rugosa) (1950)
- Marie Bugnet (shrub - rugosa) (1963)
- Purple Pavement (shrub - rugosa - Pavement) (1984)
- Country Dancer (shrub - Griffith Buck) (1973)
- Hawkeye Belle (shrub - Griffith Buck) (1975)
- Carefree Beauty (shrub - Griffith Buck) (1977)
- Jens Munk (shrub - rugosa - Explorer) (1974)
- William Baffin (shrub - Explorer) (1983)
- Alexander MacKenzie (shrub - Explorer) (1985)
- John Davis (shrub - Explorer) (1986)
- J.F. Quadra (shrub/climber - Explorer) (1995)
Gardening Books and Bibles
- Growing Perennials in Cold Climates (Whitman)
- Growing Roses in Cold Climates (Whitman)
- Growing Shrubs & Small Trees in Cold Climates (Whitman)
- English Cottage Gardening (Hensel)
- Monet's Passion (Murray)
- Gardens of the Wine Country (Chappellet)
- The Wild Gardener, The Life & Selected Writings of Eloise Butler (Hellander)
- Glorious Gardens (Heriteau)
- The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll (Bisgrove)
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- a fun walk-about
- ripen, ripen, ripen...
- summer gardens
- Some good reading
- sometimes you just have to smile
- too much yakking
- a bunch of daylilies
- way to go, General Mills
- pinks and blues
- I'm ba-a-ack!
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19 comments:
Wow!
The purple ones and that fire-red one third from the bottom are just remarkable. My mother-in-law is day lily crazy, but I'm just beginning to appreciate them, and your pics are contributing to that. She gave us a couple that are just blooming for the first time this year, and I'm struck by the rich color.
Any advice on dividing them? Do you do that? If so, after how many years?
Thanks trailhead!!
You can definitely divide daylilies. I've read that 3, 5, or 7 years are good times - but if you have enough leaves and roots, you can divide them anytime. Kind of depends on what you want: let the plant grow without dividing and you'll get more blooms per plant - divide them and you'll get more plants in a hurry. Either way works just fine. I think of daylilies the same way that I think of hosta - you really can't do anything wrong!
I'm trying to add more vibrant colors to my collection now - if you find someone else who has daylilies, chances are they'll be very happy to do trades with you - a nice cheap way to get more variety.
(I want to see photos now that you have a new camera!) :)
I love the purple-ish pick ones.
All your daylilies are beautiful! I can't pick a favorite. All my yellow ones are blooming now.
Your daylilies are so pretty. I love all the different colors you have.
Kris - do you clip back your spent blooms? My Stella d'Oros look a little untidy right now. Anything I can do to help rejuvenate another bloom?
I am glad to see someone else loves day lilies like I do. The clear red one is stunning!
Just beautiful! I just can't get enough of daylilies either Kris! If I had to narrow it down,I like the top pink and the red best think...
I have a few that spring up -- wild, I guess -- I never planted them. Of course, my neighbor has some lovely orange ones. As always, I love your photos.
I love the first one the color is almost apricot...
What a pretty shade that first one is and that purple with the coneflowers is just the perfect combo!
I love the red one, third from the bottom. It would look stunning backed with a cloud of Russian Sage. Does it have a name that you can put your finger on?
A lovely collection of lilies!! I must find room for a few more in my garden.
Holy cow -- you always take my breath away with your pictures, Kris. I come to your blog whenever I want to see something really gorgeous and you never disappoint me.
Thank you so much, everyone!! I'd be hard-pressed to choose my favorite garden plant - (I'd probably have to say whatever is blooming at the moment!) - but daylilies are definitely near the top of the list.
This year I'm feeling the need to add some more vibrant colors to the mix - more of the red, for instance. Meresy_g - I love your idea of the red with Russian sage! And sorry, I don't have the name anymore :(
I'm so happy that you all come to visit and leave such lovely comments - I love sharing my gardens with you all!
I agree, you never disappoint with your photographs. I'm in awe that this is your own private garden.
Thanks Karen - It really is a pleasure to share my gardens with friends who take the time to leave such lovely comments.
These lilies are eye-popping beautiful. Nice blog, I'll be back to read more and more.
Hi Becky~ - thanks for the nice comment. I just took a look at your blog and found all sorts of cool garden stuff! Hope you drop in again.
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