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Bodacious Beauties: 'Long Stocking' & 'Web Browser'

Posted by: Louis on Jul 03, 2010

Eight feet further, 'Long Stocking'.
A swell daylily, but, in truth, it can't hold a candle to a what flanks it across the pathway:
Ah, 'Web Browser'.

A deep-red spider to eleven inches. Oh yes, eleven. In my book, this is as shocking as a Red Garden daylily can be. Is it getting hot in here, or is it me?


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Bodacious Beauties: 'Red Suspenders'

Posted by: Louis on Jul 02, 2010

Once you've been stopped by 'Open Hearth', the next stop-light-grade daylily in your path is to the left, at the start of the south pair of beds of the Red Garden.
'Red Suspenders' is darker and, OMG, even larger than 'Open Hearth'.
 And I certainly paid for the added appeal: one pair of 'Suspenders' was $160.  


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Bodacious indeed: Perennial as Roadsign

Posted by: Louis on Jul 01, 2010

'Open Hearth' daylily is the first of my "Bodacious" series, not least because you can see it from anywhere.
Like fifty feet away, from down the narrow-grass "runway".
It says "Stop here! Look right, look left!"
Or through the sky-high Summer perennial show of the Winter Garden.

A 'Silver Umbrellas' aralia tries, without success I'm proud to say, to cool things down.


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