Creating Interest

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

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Personalities of Plants

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Many of the plants here have personalities.  Take, for instance this colonnade of the ornamental grass, Karl Foerster. Sometimes I ...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Day Camp for Toddler Geese

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Carl Brandt and his helper, Jacob, are rebuilding our dock.  The grass along our part of the lakeshore is the favorite restaurant of several...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Still Life with Peonies

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We grow a patch of peonies and irises off to the right side of our big daylily show in the back yard.  We bought some from Klehm's Song ...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Curves and Diagonals

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We live on the shore of tiny Hidden Lake, on a property shaped like a wide slice of pie that slants down from the street to the water.  Our ...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Outdoors at Last!

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I finished planting our daylily seeds this morning.  One final pot with seeds from a couple of short crosses I went back into the seed bag t...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Planting Daylily Seeds

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Were it not for the prolonged Arctic weather here, I would have begun planting my seeds right after Valentine's Day.  However, it doesn...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Just a Dream

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I've been sleeping a lot the past few days, nursing four broken ribs, and I got up early this morning and have time on my hands, so here...
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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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