Tag: flower

One of my remaining yet-to-be-removed Tiger Lilies in bloom.
The Asiatic Lily group one of the most susceptible groups to Red Lily Beetle (as evidenced by the foliar damage) so I’m taking them out to starve them out.

Tragic but needed. At least until some kind of parasitic wasp program for red lily beetle comes up for this province like it is for places like @pacificnorthwestdoodles‘s neighbourhood/State.

I still haven’t removed this plant yet tbh. tsk tsk tsk.

Like the Senna, the Balloon flower transplants dodged a few [edit since this tweet- more like dodged a LOT of] flowerbuds from my clippers. Unlike the Senna though, they look a lot rougher from the transplantation.

Luckily it was sign that they were mildly recovering.

My kaffir lily (Clivia minata) is now starting her flowering.

I believe their flower stems grow longer the warmer the room that they’re grown in? Back in my hot apartment the stem would’ve grown 3× bigger than this. The farmhouse they are in now is far colder in comparison. Also; I really need to repot this beaut sometime soon; the hanging basket container its in is leading to it being too wet (since hanging baskets are designed to hold some of their water).

Dianthus ‘Little Bobby’
The one cultivar I’ve had the longest (an irony with its short life expectancy) and is one of my favourites. Collected seed of it a good while ago (prolly a couple of months ago??), I highly doubt it comes true from seed but I’d like to see anyways! Plus it’d be some genus-based seed startng experience.

F*CKING MASSIVE ROSE

Ignore unhinged jaw of my face I wasn’t planning to be in the shot. Y’know when I said “the Canadian Explorer Rose will be the T-rex of the plant relocation/rescue project” I DIDN’T REALIZE HOW ON THE MARK I’D BE ON THAT DISTINCTION! She’s fucking HUGE! Also hellishly thorny just like grandma rugosa, I actually had to get my gloves out to be able to lug her up (I was stubborn about NOT getting the gloves till that point. Much yelping had ensued beforehand). A lot of her full size was concealed by the overgrowth of weeds where she resided. Such a contrast to the other hybrid rose (which is a Hybrid Tea) which barely reaches my knee, THIS rose could reach my waist+ if propped up. In Canada this size is not unusual for many species roses, but for a lovely hybrid rose this is something I am not the least bit used to, even after having this girl for as long as I’ve had.

Unfortunately as you may have noticed from the photos though; not a lot of roots came up with the rest of her, which is bad, really bad for such a monster (ESPECIALLY if one is transplanting in MID FREAKING SUMMER). So after these photos were taken I took to pruning two thirds of her (which may still not be a liberal enough of a prune-out) which should hopefully make up for lack of roots. I’m hoping her Rugosa background gives her the edge to take to the new flowerbeds (more on that another time) and bounce back, though that does not entirely keep my confidence as I have never had luck with transplanting Rugosas either.

Fingers crossed she makes it through the summer, but if not I at least know which group of Rose hybrids I will seek once again; Canadian Explorer roses all the way.

Photographed July 8th 2018

Dining on Daylilies

Experimenting with the edible day lily, hemerocallis fulva, which grows wildin most of the US. You can eat the flowers, flower buds, young stalks and tubers.

Wow another old one in drafts, but one I think I still want to post it. Has anyone on the plantblr scene harvested daylilies for food before? H. fulva and some of its very close kin/hybrids I know are supposedly edible.

Dining on Daylilies