Creating Interest

This is a blog about daylily gardening, photography, and the various ways we create interest in our lives.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

A Song Triumphant - The Hybrid Daylily

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The past two weeks, I've been paying close attention to daylilies that were transplanted from an unfavorable situation to a favorable si...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Nurture and the Battle

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This is a tale of two crops in the back yard.  The seedling sprouts look like they are growing with a lust for life after the big rain in th...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

New Bridges in the Seedling Patch

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My curiosity keeps driving me to save seedlings that don't look suitable for naming and registration, but that carry what I suppose to b...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Good Times, Bad Times in the Garden

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This was a good time, seeing Kathy serenely trimming the foliage on potted daylilies that I'm about to get into the ground.  Here's ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Filling in the Design

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I didn't plan to fill these beds with daylilies, but I'm in a race to get hundreds of them in the ground by the en...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

High Heat Gardeners

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Kathy and I worked outside for about five hours today as the temperature went from quite warm to pizza oven!  She's working out a planti...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

The Race to Get Them Planted

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Yesterday was a perfect day for several hours of digging.  The morning temperature was in the sixties and the drizzle I drove through on the...
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St. Peters, Midwest/Missouri, United States
I am a retired director of a statewide cultural foundation. For several decades, my professional focus was on improving the level of interest in small museums and in community programming in libraries. During that time, my private passion was gardening. I was drawn to hybridizing daylilies in 1992. That, and classical choral singing, and playing my guitars are my passions in retirement. In 2010, Kathy Bouman and I left our cozy city neighborhood to live on an acre and a half "estate" at Hidden Lake (Lago Segretto) in St. Peters, MO. Kathy passed away in 2014. I married Karen Berry in June of 2015. She is a passionate gardener and has brought birds and butterflies to our deck and our gardens. We are a good match. In late September of 2015 we added a standard poodle puppy, Lucy, to our family. A year later we added another standard poodle, Max. My daylily garden is named Daylily Lay with a smile in the direction of the Nashville skyline and a song by Bob Dylan. You can see all about that part of my life at daylilylay.com
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