I am definitely a llama.
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No worries! Like I said, I always have to check, between those 2. Looks like you’ll have a ton coming in over the next weeks - of both!
So I guess I have a ton of the Asiatic lilies, a lot of the OT hybrid (also sometimes called Orienpet, but that sorta sounds silly to me), a few trumpets, and a couple oriental.
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Also, that many of the flowers that were sold as star gazer bulbs were definitely not.
If they don’t smell and tend to stay a lot shorter, they’re more likely to be the asiatics. If they grow a lot taller and have a smell (that I personally love), they’re probably the oriental type.
Trumpet and daylilies (along with lily of the valley, calla lily, toad lily, easter lily, turk’s cap, and several others, are a lot easier to tell apart based on looks, but the Asiatic and Oriental types always confuse me until I smell them!
Some references (which, I have to use something as reference every year):
These are gorgeous! Beautiful colors, and it looks like a lot more to come! ❤️
Ooh, that’s exciting! They’ll be beautiful!
Thanks!
I’m going to have to move my star gazers after the growing season is done. They only bloom one flower each year, and have never sprouted new stems from the bulbs/scales!
Ooh, damn that’s rough!
I think we had some bars over asphalt/concrete/cement (I dunno, it was a big solid surface that was also the parking lot, the kickball diamond, the wiffle ball field, and where we had all of our field and track days) but I only ever fell off the ones over the rocks. I do remember friends with broken teeth or busted noses from that, tho.
I think wood chips were added later (after I was out of that school) “for safety” and then rubber mulch was an even later upgrade.
And when did something soft go in the playground area? Waaaay later, the school got actual grass in the playground - instead of playground equipment. 🙄 Building was closed within a few years of that happening.
…And right into rocks/gravel…
Your flowers are gorgeous! That’s all in one pot?? Beautiful ❤️ I bet they smell great that close to the house 😍
They’re one of my faves, too! I have 2 (that I don’t water as regularly, so they’re still small) that I think I’ll move closer this fall/winter. You’ve done an amazing job with them, and inspired me!
That’s awesome! Good idea keeping mosquitoes away - I’m a friggen mosquito-magnet and get a new bite almost every time I go outside (and most of the lawn is kept tidy, but we don’t clean up all the long grass in the “lily garden” - yet)
Very nice! They bounced back well! What else is in there with them? The bigger bushy leaves look kinda like geranium to me, but it’s just a guess
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It’s great that you got to keep the original plan, once the trees got a little bigger!
But it’s really quite amazing how well hostas do, when given shade. We have so many (in the back) that aren’t even the same as any of the other hostas in our back yard!
We had a similar (but reversed) situation - had a giant oak in the front yard when we bought the house. We put hostas in the shade - our front yard was full shade, so they did really well.
A couple of years later, our oak got sick and full shade turned into part shade. Then we had to take it down, so the already stressed and crispy hostas - which had already stopped doing well - seem to be barely present in the front.
We don’t have as many hostas in the front anymore.
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Ya know, I think those are actually all volunteers - I think we also had only seen variegated, except for this one kind that are giant and blue.
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Thank you, though! We also are loving how little grass can grow between/beneath them!
Thank you!
My spouse floated an idea that would double the size of this flower bed.
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I’m all about that! I wanna split and scramble some of the colors around, now that I know what it all looks like!🤞
I’m sure they would have been great ~
Sorry to hear that your deer are jerks (and those beetles! Man - those guys suck!)
PAX - before there was PAX Prime or PAX East.
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For me, it’s Grim Dawn, honestly. (And Diablo before that) 10 classes to choose 2 from means a lot of new skills and builds. Tons of random loot, but also recipes to make and collect.
I mostly play with mods now. Grim Internals, full rainbow, some rep and exp gain ones, and the Item Assistant. I play solo, and have enjoyed every hour of it!