July Means Daylilies

Lots and lots of daylilies!

Today our good friend Carla Zambelli Mudry is welcoming us back to her garden in Malvern , Pennsylvania .

July means daylilies — lots and Lot of day lily ! And sunflowers , hydrangeas , milkweed , echinacea , and more ! My garden is even more awake with summer color , and I just had my first undecided garden day for my horticulture group . That is something that can make us gardeners a piddling trepidatious . It is not soft to open up your garden up like this , because you question if visitors will see what you see .

One of my favourite Book isThe Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett . As a fry , I translate it over and over . It catch my imagery , and how could you not love the musical theme of a underground garden full of plant and fauna tucked away ? peradventure on some strange level this garden I now have is my secret garden . After all , it was a feral garden when I first pop out with it . The old noblewoman whose house we bought had produce ill and died . Her garden go untended except for the plain of maintenance . I unearthed garden layer easy from under very overgrown weather condition . It was an excavation of sort , and this summer when I performed another great forsythia massacre , I discovered a elephantine elderberry(Sambucus)with a trunk as reckon as a tree diagram torso .

Now my porch is bare of plant that need to be constitute , and it will be all about enjoying my garden and maintaining it until fall . Here in Pennsylvania we are also feverishly crush every dreadedspotted lanternflywe come in across . They are a really destructive pest , sadly .

July is for daylilies ( Hemerocallis ) . . .

. . . and sunflowers ( Helianthusannuus , annual ) . . .

. . . and more daylily ! This one is a twofold ointment .

Oh , and how about even more daylilies ?

This day lily ’s dark shade of purple is almost black .

The pale lavender form a delicate convention on this daylily .

A crisp white daylily

It is n’t all about daylilies . Some coneflowers ( Echinaceahybrid , Zones 4–9 ) are joining the show .

A little squirrel statue hides under a fern frond .

A Buddha statue meditates by some hostas .

This bird bathtub welcome feathered protagonist to a exuberant timber planting .

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