Hello All....

Daylilies...daylilies.....daylilies. Aren't they a beautiful sight in your yard as a stand alone cultivar, along the driveway, in a flowerbed, or even as erosion control on an embankment? Daylilies are such a versatile, easy growing perennial that each of us enjoys. So, by the way, if you are not currently enjoying daylilies, please join us daylily lovers and "get hooked". Daylilies are tolerant of less than perfect water conditions, disease resistant, pest/insect free. What plant could be better for you?

Please checkout our website:http://www.oakvillefarm.com
for a good selection of daylilies. You may find a daylily that will fit just right in your yard.

Until next time, Happy Gardening.

Hey all Daylily Folks

Hope everyone is having a good day. It is a Saturday and for most folks, that means "THE WEEKEND" and hopefully time off from the regular job. If so, find time to walk through your daylilies. What's blooming? Where do you need more daylilies? Is it time to divide your daylilies and share their wealth with others?

We just had a nice hard downpour. And looking out the window, I see all the beautiful green! In the past, our August weather has been dry and hot. This summer we have had much rain and things are so lush and green. The daylilies are showing such new growth. The vegetable garden is growing well, with okra and peas coming in on a daily basis. The muscadine grape vines are loaded with grapes and should be ready for picking very soon now. Oh I love the edible bounty provided this time of year.

So, outside I go. Until next time, Happy Gardening.

Hump Day...

Hello all,

How are your daylilies? New daylily growth on those rebloomers? Any proliferations showing up on scapes?

Oops, will end here. Thunder, lightning and rain. Best turn off the computer.

Until next time, Happy Gardening.

Hello

Good Morning,

We had a nice dense fog here this morning at Oakville Farm. Our blooming daylilies, ie Martha Fawcett, Stella de Oro, Panda Bear, gave a little glow in the fog as I looked out the window this AM. It is now two hours later and fog has lifted.

Phone is ringing.....
Well, well, that was a wrong number!

Now time to get outside and peruse the daylilies. Sherman has prepared the ground so we can line out more daylilies. And I am just so excited that we have had a wetter August than previously, because the daylilies are sending up so many new shoots. It has been easy to dig up and divide them thus far.

Until next time. Happy Gardening.

White Puffy...

Hello

We walked through the daylilies this morning. There is such lush green growth for the month of August. Someone asked if we fertilized in the fall of the year. We do not fertilize our daylilies in the fall, we put down 10-10-10 in early spring, usually the month of March. And that works very well for our daylilies here in north central North Carolina.

Yes, there are white puffy clouds scattered throughout the beautiful blue skies this morning. Guess that can mean only one thing..there will be "thunder boomers" today. It has been a wet August.

All for now. Until next time, Happy Gardening.

WEEKEND...

Hello everyone. Yes it has been a while. Hope you have been out enjoying your daylilies. Our reblooming daylilies continue to show their stuff! We have sprayed for weeds and are awaiting their demise.

We attempted (notice that word) to upgrade my computer from Windows XP to Windows Vista and well, can you guess? My computer was just tooooo old to handle. And it was a phooopaaaa. So I now have a brand new laptop computer. And man is it FAST....... The words finish typing before I know it!!!! As far as the old computer goes, the hard drive will have to formatted. Hope I saved everything on CD's! Photos especially.

So, happy computing to all and Until Next time, Happy Gardening.

Hello

Good Morning to everyone.

Hope your weekend is going well. It brings a smile to my face to walk through our daylilies and see the rebloomers showing their beautiful open smiles on their daylily blooming faces. Daylilies, such as Panda Bear, Sebastian and of course the ole standby, Stella de Oro are presenting color in the field. After the heavy soaking rain we had last week, our Martha Fawcett daylily has sent new scapes and the blooms on the daylilies are so pretty.

Until next time, Happy Gardening.

WEEKEND...

Oh yes, it is "weekend Friday". Hope you have plans to work outside in your daylilies or maybe if it is too HOT or too WET, you can stay inside and checkout our Oakville Farm daylily blog. We would love to hear from you. Just jot us a comment, or two. :)

Just returned from picking blueberries. Oh yes, there are just sooooo many! They hang in cluster like form. One handful that I pulled off a branch had 15 ripe blueberries. According to the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry, blueberries have a good source of nutritional value in each and every bite. This photo taken from the website, shows what the highbush blueberries look like:

And when they are ripe, they fall right off into your hand.

Molly, want to say that we received your call about the Stella de Oro daylily. Please come on by, the clumps are sending up new scapes and are reblooming. So until next time, Happy Gardening.

Good Morning....

Here we are with another edition of Oakvillefarm blogspot. Our reblooming daylilies are really really showing themselves. This summer's weather has been sooooo good for growing daylilies: more average like temperatures (89-90 degrees), not the 95+ degrees for days even weeks on end. That is however about to change, forecasts are for 98 degrees and higher with heat indexes near 104 for several days. YIKES!!! And rains, although the rains have not come at perfect times, they have come at opportune times. Like yesterday and last night, more than 4 inches of rain. And there does not seem to be any runoff, it just soaked right in. Skies are overcast this morning and with that, everything outside seems to have a richer, stronger color. Bolder, if you will.

No new photos for today. Hoping that all of our daylily friends are having good growing this year. And be sure to think of new daylilies for next year. Various daylily heights, colors, textures....there is such an assortment and such beauty to behold with daylilies.

Until next time, Happy Gardening.

Tips for Choosing Daylilies

Oh Yeah, I found this great post on daylilies. Please checkout it out. Has good photos and explanations of daylily terms.

Until next time, Happy Gardening.

Ten Top Considerations for Choosing Daylilies

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Hello

Good Morning,

Hope everyone has been well since our last daylily blog from Oakville Farm. Again, days have passed by so quickly.

Our daylilies, the rebloomer cultivars, are showing new growth. Happy Returns and Sebastian, two rebloomers, are really pretty. We had a good rain last week and that has promoted the new growth activity. And although it is supposed to get very hot this week, 95 degrees and higher, "their moist feet" should keep them blooming more.

We picked blueberries last night. And yes, my teeth were stained blue when I got home. Sherman did not have to ask where I had been! Went to a different patch last night and the blueberries were just as sweet as one's picked last week. Will freeze the majority of them, and will also make blueberry muffins. I bake them in the small muffin tins. Although they tend to stick to the tins, I like the smaller size so I can just pop them in my mouth!!

Skies are overcast this morning, but still a warm temperature, 75 degrees. So better get out to to the garden and pick Okra and peas, before the brutal sun bears down. Have a great day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

Welcome August....

Good Evening,

Hope everyone has had a good day. We have worked outside today, not in the daylilies, but with other yard projects. So this edition of Oakville Farm daylily blog, will be about other interests. Hope you enjoy!

And what do ya see in this photo? Click on the photo to enlarge to see the...well guess I better tell ya, that the kittens are in the window of the barn. They are waiting to make sure that the dogs are out of harms way, before coming down.


And yesterday, I had a real treat. Four turkey hens and sixteen poults/chicks were walking through the daylilies, through the corn/garden, then through the goat pastures. The pasture is a wide open area, which gave me plenty of space to view the beautiful specimen. The poults kept their heads on the ground eating insects and seeds as they walked from area to area. The hens were keenly aware of the surroundings. They did not appear to be afraid of me, as I inched ever so closely to photograph. Two of the hens kept one flock of eight poults together ahead of the others and the other two hens stayed behind with the other flock. I was able to watch them move about for more than an hour. As I approached the later flock and spoke, the poults went through the wire fence and the two hens flew over. They gathered together and moved to a more secure area under the pine trees. That was great fun to watch one of Mother Nature's finery's.


The hummingbirds have also been a real treat of late. The eggs must have hatched and the little ones are out in FORCE. We are feeding 10 cups of sweetened water in hummingbird feeders a day for all to have. I have counted as many as fourteen at one time. And you know how they fly in and try to "dive bomb" one another. When I go on the porch to bring in an empty feeder, I do not see a single bird. Then I return the feeders to the porch, still not seeing a single bird. Then I look out the window, the feeders are covered with hummingbirds! Where do they hide? I was able to take these photos after sitting outside for twenty minutes with the camera on the tripod. Again, another fun time enjoying the wonders of Mother Nature.


Guess it is time to end this edition of Oakville Farm daylily blog. Continue to checkout our website http://www.oakvillefarm.com
for the daylily that is just right for you.

Until next time, Happy Gardening.