This website shows my home garden in Houston Texas. My focus recently has been daylilies, but I also grow vegetables & flowers.
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Tomatoes (Sweet 100, Early Girl, Summer Set & Homestead) have started to ripen as you can see from the pictures above from May 25th. And the cucumbers (Poinsett 76 this year) over produced as usual. Veggies in the first pic went to neighbors the next day.
So far as of 05-27-23, we've had 144 daylily varieties that have bloomed with another 13 varieties with scapes (bloom stalks forming). The number of varieties blooming dropped from 58 on May 19 to 36 on May 27. So we have reached the peak of the 2023 daylily bloom season.
I don't think the daylilies in 2023 will bloom as long as they did in 2022. We had more aphids than usual early on in 2023 which I believe caused many scapes that formed to die and not produce any flowers. Time of course will tell as late blooming varieties along with reblooms should keep flowers coming through the end of July.
I don't think the daylilies in 2023 will bloom as long as they did in 2022. We had more aphids than usual early on in 2023 which I believe caused many scapes that formed to die and not produce any flowers. Time of course will tell as late blooming varieties along with reblooms should keep flowers coming through the end of July.
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When a scape gets down to the last flower, my wife takes the flower inside to make a bouquet. She had field days on May 12th and 18th as you can see from the pics above
Slide shows of 2023 daylily variety blooms are being updated thru 05-27-23. I'm limiting the number of pictures to 20 per variety, but will rotate out the older blooms so you can always see the latest flowers (will be at the end of each slide show)
2023 Daylily Varieties by Color/Type - link to webpage
With the 13 new varieties from Amador Flower Farm received on 03-28-23, we now have 197 daylily varieties that could bloom in 2023. However, I think we will be lucky to get to 170 varieties that actually bloom this year.
2023 Daylily Varieties by Color/Type - link to webpage
With the 13 new varieties from Amador Flower Farm received on 03-28-23, we now have 197 daylily varieties that could bloom in 2023. However, I think we will be lucky to get to 170 varieties that actually bloom this year.
May 21 to May 27 - Eight new daylily varieties bloomed this week: Outrageous Lavender, Diana's Evening Gown, Intergalactic Interlude, Hanalei Bay, Pandora's Box, Disco Music, John Kinnebrew, Shawnee Moon
May 14 to May 20 - Fifteen new daylily varieties bloomed this week: Suns Eye, Chicago Brave, Desert Flame, Fitzasaurus, Pizza Crust, Sweet Tart, Francis Joiner, Spacecoast Technical Knock Out, Majestic Move, Indian Giver, Unforgettable Glow, Erin Lea, Lacy Doily, Chicago Apache, Beautiful Edgings
May 7 to May 13 - Twenty-nine new daylily varieties bloomed so far this week: When My Sweetheart Returns, Kindling the Flame, Pick Up Lines, Huckleberry Yogurt, Dynamic Duo, Spacecoast Behavior Pattern, Chasing Ghosts, Garden Show, Pewter Pink, Bowl of Sunshine, Elegant Explosion, Fire Bird Suite, Harmony in Yellow, Joan Senior, Double Layer, Round Midnight, Scottish Fantasy, Buntyn's Hot Diggity Dog, Christmas Tidings, Exotic Candy, Merz, Mountain Top Experience, Numinous Moments, Pastel Inspiration, Gayle Palmer, Lavender Stardust, Magician's Magic, New Series, Pale Moon Windmill
Apr 30 to May 6 - Twenty-nine new daylily varieties bloomed this week: Forsyth Wrinkles & Cream, Full of Treasure, Superlative, Cape Coral, Barbara Mitchell, Collage, Rachelle Agin, Tuscawilla Tigress, Magic Carpet Ride, Parrot Tattoo, Spacecoast Southern Belle, Inwood, Kupferteller, Lucy's Pride, Raspberry Suede, Arctic Excellence, Dark Night Dynamite, Dragon Seeker, Formal Appearance, Funny Valentine, Judy Farguhar, Spacecoast Tiger Tango, Sunday Gloves, Wildest Dreams, Black Stockings, Ed Brown, Enchanted Forest, Persian Market, Pleated Pumpkin
Apr 23 to Apr 29 - Twenty-three new daylily varieties bloomed this week: Nicole's American Beauty, Diana Culbertson, Lilylands Melon Sorbet, Sidewinder Oh Seven, Paul Stout, Yabba Dabba Doo, Mauve Mystique, Passion in Paris, Petal Pusher, Alcazar, Bogota, Ciel D'Or, Unlock the Stars, Early Snow, Eye Popper, Passion for Red, Rhodesian Red, Baby Rattle, Elegant Candy, Spacecoast Twice is Nice, Stolen Treasure, That Thing You Do, Beachy Keen
Apr 16 to Apr 22 - Nineteen new daylily varieties bloomed this week: Night Embers, Bas Relief, Daring Deception, Exotic Perfume, Green Turtle Key, Bridgeton Bonus, Coconut Grove, Olallie Star, Tuscawilla Snowdrift, Daringly Different, Prickly Sensation, Spacecoast Sweetness, Father Fidalis, Jolyene Nichole, Mecca Truffles, Renie's Delight, Always Afternoon, Sink into Your Eyes, Spiny Sea Urchin
Apr 9 to Apr 15 - Five new daylily varieties bloomed this week: Dare to Love, Wild Horses, Key to My Heart, Pale Blush, Tequila & Lime
Click "play" on the upper left-hand corner of the slide show below to see the rest of my garden (non-daylilies!) so far this spring.
Click on link below for Slide Shows showing daylily varieties that bloomed in 2022.
2022 Cultivars Slide Shows - link to webpage
Click on link below for all list of all daylily varieties (with slide shows) that have bloomed in 2022. Pictures are updated thru 09-25-22 (last daylily bloom).
151 Daylily Varieties that bloomed in 2022 - link
I do now have a website-based email address:
gardentalk@reflectionscarlson.com
So, if you have a question about a particular daylily variety, you have a way to contact me.
If you are interested as to where I got these daylilies, click on the link below for the 10 vendors I have bought daylilies from since 2016.
2022 Daylily Varieties by Vendor with slide shows of favorites - link
2022 Cultivars Slide Shows - link to webpage
Click on link below for all list of all daylily varieties (with slide shows) that have bloomed in 2022. Pictures are updated thru 09-25-22 (last daylily bloom).
151 Daylily Varieties that bloomed in 2022 - link
I do now have a website-based email address:
gardentalk@reflectionscarlson.com
So, if you have a question about a particular daylily variety, you have a way to contact me.
If you are interested as to where I got these daylilies, click on the link below for the 10 vendors I have bought daylilies from since 2016.
2022 Daylily Varieties by Vendor with slide shows of favorites - link
Click on the upper left-hand corner to view slide show below for pics of garden over the last 10 years. Or just scroll down pics on right and click on photo to view.
I’m Richard, a weekend gardener who lives in Houston Texas. Well maybe that isn't entirely accurate considering the number and size of the beds in the backyard. I started the current garden back in the winter of 2012/2013 when I built four 4 foot by 12 foot raised beds two landscape timbers high in my backyard which I quickly filled with vegetables the following spring. Of course, the four beds were expanded to six beds and an additional two landscape timbers were added to increase the loose soil depth. Additional beds followed as you can see in the slideshow above. In addition, you will note three 4 foot fence posts (1 foot of which is cemented below ground) were added to each side of the 12 foot beds to allow adjustable frames to be built over the beds so that tomato plants can be covered with netting to keep fruit from the birds and enable bell pepper plants to be covered with 30% shade cloth during 90 degree plus summer heat.
Gardens are all about hard work … constructing the beds … adding the soil … planting … watering … weeding and yes enjoying the fruits of your labor be it fresh vegetables or beautiful flowers.
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Note how big the tomatoes are in just 6 weeks and the daylilies are now in full bloom. Mid May to mid Jun is normally peak daylily bloom time in Houston. In 2022, the peak blooms occurred from May 17 to Jun 14