{"id":1603,"date":"2012-07-24T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2012-07-24T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:11:52","slug":"day-lilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Day Lilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my first perennial garden in the early eighties, I had one frosty peach Day Lily called Theresa Hall which is still with me.  I keep it mostly for sentimental reasons as its Flowers are small and easily lost in the June garden.  <\/p>\n<p>A gardener friend gave me a couple of the classic June blooming Lemon Lilies and one early season pale orange Lily.  I liked how this orange Flower showed up in a season of mostly blues and pinks.  I also transplanted some of the Day Lilies that grow wild around here to a spot at the top of our driveway.  They are a tall deep orange Lily that grows with abandon along the roadsides of New Hampshire and Vermont.  They have liked holding up their spot at the entrance to the farm, and I have liked having them there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2012\/07\/img-5442.jpg\" height=\"135\" width=\"180\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_5442\" title=\"IMG_5442\" \/><br \/>\nIn general however, the stunning developments in the world of Day Lilies passed me by until a few years ago when I started to pay attention to Day Lilies again. It was bliss to discover then plant a dozen or two of the colorful new cultivars with their divergent bloom times.  Suddenly Day Lilies were not just a blip in the busy June landscape but a luxurious friend all summer long  <\/p>\n<p>The gardens here now contain a deluge of Day Lilies.  Below are some of the ones blooming right now.  I relish how many others are still to come in August and September.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2012\/07\/img-6059.jpg\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_6059\" title=\"IMG_6059\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2012\/07\/img-6009.jpg\" height=\"336\" width=\"448\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_6009\" title=\"IMG_6009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2012\/07\/img-6064.jpg\" height=\"264\" width=\"352\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_6064\" title=\"IMG_6064\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2012\/07\/img-5917.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"384\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_5917\" title=\"IMG_5917\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2012\/07\/img-6061.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"216\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_6061\" title=\"IMG_6061\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenhopeessences.com\/wordpress\/wp-contents\/upload\/2012\/07\/img-6001.jpg\" height=\"312\" width=\"416\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"IMG_6001\" title=\"IMG_6001\" \/><br \/>\nWe had a much needed downpour last night.  Even the wildflowers were drooping before this night of rain.   The Day Lilies deserve a nod for having managed to look fresh and beautiful even through the preceding crisp hot weeks, though I must say this morning as I went out to deadhead them, they looked as refreshed by the rain as everyone else.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my first perennial garden in the early eighties, I had one frosty peach Day Lily called Theresa Hall which is still with me. I keep it mostly for sentimental reasons as its Flowers are small and easily lost in the June garden. A gardener friend gave me a couple of the classic June blooming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/?p=1603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day Lilies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.greenhopeessences.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}