Congratulations to Kayla B., the winner of the Paula’s Choice Peptide Booster! Woo hoo!
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Chit Chat and Odds and Ends
Summer Fridays are almost like vacation days. When I worked in advertising in New York, at one agency I worked for, we got out at 1pm every Friday in summer. At other agencies I worked for, we had every other Friday off. So I still think of Fridays as a day to go to the beach or pool or to do something fun. I notice that my blog stats take a nose dive on summer Fridays, so instead of a usual post today, here’s some random stuff.
Garden Pix
My gardens are having a great summer after a couple of lackluster years. July is daylily month in my garden. Unfortunately, the common orange daylilies that make a pretty orange crescent along the boulders at the side of the front garden are just about finished for 2018, but they looked very colorful for 3 weeks.
Although a few of the lily plants that are now under trees that have grown up and shaded them aren’t blooming or blooming much, many of my lilies are having banner years. Here are a few favorites:
The daylily below was hybridized by Susan Stowe of Topsfield MA. This is one of her “rejects”, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful daylilies I own!
Here are two more of Susan’s “rejects” that I was lucky to get.
This one is called “I Wish” and I planted a couple of borders with this daylily. The flower is a smaller size, but I love the color. It reminds me of the color of old school lingerie from the 1930s.
I probably have about 25 other varieties of hybrid daylilies. I wish I could show them all to you!
My roses have come and gone. They were very pretty and some of the plants that get the most sunlight had a lot of blooms. I’ve got my fingers crossed that there’ll be a second bloom later in the season. I need to feed them, and I should have fed them earlier. Oh well.
Here are some simpler flowers, perennial marguerite, that can take over if I’m not careful.
But they’re so reliable. They always come back. My plan for this area along the edge of the driveway was a yellow and blue garden. The “blue” is lavender plants, but they’re struggling a bit this year.
After two terrible years for hydrangeas, they’re doing very well this summer. Tonight I decided to cut some and bring them in the house to enjoy.
This afternoon, I went to Appleton Farms in Ipswich to pickup my friend’s CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture) share of vegetables while she was on vacation. What a beautiful afternoon at the farm. Here are the flowers from the farm that we were able to pick from the fields. It’s so nice to have flowers in the house <3
In August things slow down in my garden, but I’m enjoying it while I can! If you have a garden, what’s in bloom for you?
Cosmetics Coming Attractions
Since this is a beauty blog, here’s a sneak peak of some makeup and skincare products that I just started testing out. Reviews coming in the next few weeks.
Have a great weekend!
Your flowers are beautiful. I never had a green thumb although my dad had a magic touch.
Thank you, Marcia, for taking the time to comment! Glad to hear that your dad was a gardener 🙂
Yay! I love seeing your beautiful flowers!
One of ours looks very much like Susan Reject No 1 and I feel quite the same as you do about it. It’s beautiful!!! Mine was a reject too, but of a slightly different sort, haha. I think it was a yard sale find… One where I point at dirt covered shopping bags and random recycled pots and the owners say something like, “Oh *those* daylilies? I have no idea what colour they are. They’re free. Please take them.” And so I do. 😀
Gee, you really lucked out getting a lily beauty for free! I’m sad that my lilies are down to their last few blooms. We’re leaving on vacation tomorrow morning for a week, and I will miss the last of the lilies. Yet another reason why I don’t like to go on vacation during the summer. It is just so beautiful in MA and the summer is so short!