Front Garden Macros

The common orange daylilies, Hemerocallis fulva, are blooming profusely and have been for about a week. You might call them by one of the names below.

Hemerocallis fulva, the orange day-lily,[3] tawny daylily, corn lily, tiger daylily, fulvous daylily, ditch lily or Fourth of July lily (also railroad daylily, roadside daylily, outhouse lily, track lily, and wash-house lily),[citation needed] is a species of daylily native to Asia. It is very widely grown as an ornamental plant in temperate climates for its showy flowers and ease of cultivation. It is not a true lily in the genus Lilium, but gets its common name from the superficial similarity of its flowers to Lilium and from the fact that each flower lasts only one day. Wikipedia

I've taken some phone photos, but, frankly, I don't feel like posting them.

Those fulva plants are out back, mostly out of sight by the back fence and behind the bushes, but yesterday the cultivars out front began to bloom.— just a few. Once again, I took phone photos during the hot day, but I didn't like then either. However, I did get an okay shot with my Canon plus macro lens last evening.

We've had three different varieties of daylilies in that tough patch by the driveway where not much else wants to grow. They've been there for about 15 years now, and all three cultivars look similar, and I don't know which is which.

I had actually prodded myself to go out last evening after seeing this echinacea macro from earlier in the week. For some reason I seem to favour echinacea photos before they bloom biggly. Please excuse the use of the scientific term.

There are about 20 echinacea plants out there, all really from self-seeding, and some are on the lawn, outside the actual garden. We've perhaps let them go too far, but at this point, we are not very serious gardeners, so we shan't over-worry.

Blather, blather: you do go on AC. Cut it short.

So here are two more photos from last evening. The sun was down, or almost, so they don't have the light of the previous photo, but I like them anyway.