Creating Interest

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

Thursday, July 5, 2012

How Does Your Garden Grow?

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When I lived in Vermont (1975 to 1995), everyone we knew grew flowers and vegetables.  The customary pleasantry when seeing a friend was, ...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Hybridizing Daylilies in the Bliss and Torment of Ignorance

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Out in the garden morning after morning, there is the bliss of birdsong and breeze, the pleasure of working a plan based on dreams of what ...
Saturday, June 9, 2012

Ninety Degrees of Separation

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The heat is on this weekend.  This morning as I helped my club sell potted daylilies at a local farmers' market, the thermometer worked ...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Band Must Play On

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This daylily, THE BAND PLAYED ON by Patrick Stamile, is a favorite of mine and a sentimental marker of one of the best periods of my former ...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Daylily Color, Form, and Pattern

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There is some kind of malaise in the daylily collection here and in many locations across the country.  Most of us think this is related to ...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Rain Question

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When I was a college lad pining away for a lost love who ultimately married me, I wrote a little poem with a cutesy touch....words dispersed...
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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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