I don't do enough of this.  I have thousands of "headshots," or pictures of the flower faces, but not enough clump shots.  Th...

Deep inside each one, is a cave of glowing light. No day like today! Daylily blooms truly only last one day.  At the end of their time, ...

    Melting memories, flowing fast from winters grip and toward sunny days! Here are H. 'Rune Mark' and H. 'Star Wishes' f...

Some days I have a good hair day, and some days not-so-much.  Daylilies have those kind of days, too.  Here are two daylily traits that mak...

  showing off, dreaming of narrow wins and losses. they both count.  really.   Shown above is a shot from the Indiana daylily show I judged...

We all start out the day fresh and crisp - full of substance and saturation.  As the day matures, we melt.  And fade.  And start to sag in ...

sparkling bits of light twinkling at me (teasing me) to look more closely. This is H. 'Navajo Princess' (Hansen, 1992) seen at an ...

The time you devote to thinking about your legacy has a correlating relationship with your age.  As one increases, so does the other. Asid...

Judging  seedlings in an AHS-accredited exhibition show is no easy feat.  As a judge, if you can understand and internalize the fact that j...

the gray surrounds me~ steals color from sunny dreams. leaving slush behind. Here are two great gray-eyed examples.  On the left, H. '...

 filled with color! gardener's eyes soak it in, saving it for spring. top left, from back:  H. 'One Last Dance' a...

explosion in light! the searing throat screams yellow- and then softly fades. (photo is a Dan Bachman seedling.  It blooms like nothing e...