In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. ~William Blake

And although autumn is almost over for 2014, we look back at all it has given...coolish weather, colorful leaves, rest from plentiful gardens, back to school with leaf and rock collections (remember those?), last season of hay cuttings and preparation for winter.  A calmness after a very busy and productive summer season.

And how do you find this time of year?  I am waiting for seed/plant catalogs to arrive so I can begin "ooo"ing and "awwwwww"ing.  Making a wish list and a to-do list.  All the fun.  :)

Oakville Daylily Farm has "big bloomers", ie daylilies, for your pleasure.  Daylilies make a great perennial for your garden/yard....colorful, tall/short, drought tolerant, pest resistant.  Just a pure joy.  Check them out and see what suits your needs.

Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

Hemerocallis Velvet Star

Autumn is the perfect time to take account of what we’ve done, what we didn’t do, and what we’d like to do next year. ~Author Unknown

Hello.  And just a few more days of autumn.  How does your garden/yard fare this day?  My daylilies are resting..and my mind is racing to thoughts of 2015.  Which daylilies to transplant?  Which daylilies to move?  Which daylilies to purchase? Oh my!!!

Oakville Farm has a nice variety of very reasonably priced daylilies...please go on over and check it out. 

And the weather station... OFW.

The big bloomer for today ...

Hemerocallis Joan Senior 

Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

Yes, 2014 Christmas is upon us.  Fifteen days away.  Oh, what great times with family and friends.  As this time approaches, I hope for each and everyone that you will find a renewed sense of joy in your heart and a renewed  sense of love for life.

Hope you had a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. 
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, today it is raining.  A nice slow rain here.  OFW shows about 1/6 " of rain and the WRAL radar shows rain still coming.  So what a great day.   Time to peruse gardening catalogs, gardening books, or Farmers Almanac.  Hmmm, think I will find an old Mother Earth News magazine and peruse.  So love that. 

Time for a cup of coffee and a light breakfast.

Please check out Oakville Daylily Farm to view some "big bloomers".  Hope everyone has a great day and until next time Happy Gardening.


 Hemerocallis Siloam Merle Kent

'Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Ballads, 1798

Weather was gorgeous yesterday...bright blue skies, not a cloud above, light breeze, late autumn temps...and beautiful moon last night.  Full moon Saturday night, however could view thru cloud cover,  so I am claiming Full Moon for last night.  :)    Looking forward to a good day as well.  Clouds are expected.

As mentioned previously, gardening/seed/plant catalogs should begin appearing in your mailboxes very soon now.  Anyone receive one yet?  Not here.  And which is your favorite?  I do not have a favorite, just like perusing all on a cold dreary day while sipping a cup of coffee from my warm comfy sofa.  Or if available a bright sunny, sometimes cold day,  while sitting on a bench on the back stoop.

Remember Oakville Farm for daylily needs.  Now, off for another cup of coffee.  Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

 Hemerocallis Ferris Wheel

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

Hello.  Mother nature graced Oakville Farm with about a third of an inch of rain yesterday.  And today, sun/cloud mix with a pretty steady breeze.   Oakville Farm has  a weather station, OFW and I welcome you to visit the site to see our current weather stats.
And when you are finished checking out our weather, please visit the daylily site, Oakville Farm.  To our past visitors, I welcome your return and to new visitors,  enjoy perusing our selection of daylilies.
Think gardens..flowers, planting, transplanting, rearranging, newness, weeding,  all the while, enjoying Mother Nature.
Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

Hemerocallis Big Kiss

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~John Burroughs, "The Snow-Walkers," 1866

Hello All.  Oakville Daylily Farm is still up and running.  Please stop by and see the daylilies that we currently have for purchase.
As you may have noticed, my blogging skills have fallen off.  Waaaay off.  Hope to begin blogging once again....daylilies, quotes, music, creatures, daylilies, quotes, music, creatures.  Oh yeah, have already said that!!  :)
Appears that Blogging has changed a bit since last here.  May take a while to get used to.  
Hope everyone has a good Saturday.  Until next time, Happy Gardening. 

Yes, winter is quickly approaching, however, as those wonderful winter seed/plant catalogs begin to show up in your mailbox, think spring/blossoms/warmth/Mother Nature and most of all...Daylilies. 

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

So how are you today?  Hope well.

Rain showers have become less frequent.  Yeah!!!!  Floods still in the area, folks displaced, roads closed and rescues occurring.  Grass uncut, plants drowning, ants finding higher ground.  Oh My!!!!!  However good news is on the horizon .... forecast for next few days is less rain, more sunshine, more heat.

OFW, here you can see the weather stats at Oakville Farm.

And the daylilies are thriving.  Oh yes, thriving.  

Here is wishing you a good day.  And until next time, Happy Gardening.

I've noticed something about gardening. You set out to do one thing and pretty soon, you're doing something else, which leads to some other thing, and so on. By the end of the day, you look at the shovel stuck in the half dug daylily bed and wonder what on earth you've been doing.  ~Author Unknown

This was sent to me.  Thanks!  Really like it.

Like yesterday ..... began pulling weeds in one flower bed, then picked the tomatoes, fed the goats, fed kitty, walked along the fence in pasture, drove around yard in Gator, rain inside to avoid rain, ate sandwich, watched one episode of Young and Restless, weeding in another area, transplant several houseplants, talked on the cell phone to family,  ran away from goundhog hiding in high grass, then back to original weed patch.  How did I get soooooo side tracked?  And not ONE thing accomplished!  Had lots of fun flitting from one to another, though.  :)


Around 630 AM had  .6" of rain. Everything is nice and soggy.  And so beautiful.  I always like the look after a rain.  Outdoors has such a clean/bright/alive appearance.

So will begin again today.  Not in the original weed patch, that was the mistake yesterday!  New area, with camera in hand.  Not weeding yet either, too wet!!!!  So will photograph a while.  That should keep me more focused.  Love that camera!!!!!

Hope you have a good day.  And until next time, Happy Gardening.

                                                                Nicholas Leigh daylily

Enjoy.  :)

 Smile .... make a beautiful face.  :)

Love y'all.  :)

Hope you all have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

Then followed that beautiful season...  
Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope you enjoy this first full day of summer.  Third weekend in June, already!!!  Where has this 2013 year gone???  Am gonna get a glass of sweet tea, walkabout in the daylilies and take in this beautiful summer day.

Hope you have a good one and until next time, Happy Gardening.
 

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer   ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

 

Yes, it official, summer began this morning at 1:04.  And the weather here is absolutely gorgeous.  Lows in 50's, low humidity, bright sun, cloudless sky ... perfect for late June.  I'll take any day of the week!!!

So how are those daylilies growing in your yard/garden?  Here at Oakville Farm .... Oh my!  Blossoms are everywhere.  With the great amounts of rain this spring ... daylilies, weeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, yes just everything is looking good.

Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

 Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War.  It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant.  It means justice.  It means liberty.  It means happiness.... Every color means liberty.  Every thread means liberty.  Every star and stripe means liberty.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Happy Flag Day to one and all.  

From the middle of May until the last of July, I display flags, red/white/blue banners, bunting, Uncle Sam items ... a very patriotic time for us all.  Yes?

Had more rain yesterday afternoon, about 1/4".  And with that storm blowing thru, it brought, cooler, drier, bright blue skies and an awesome sunshine.  77 degrees day.  So fantastic.  

All for this time.  Hope everyone has had a good day.  The weekend is upon us ... please drive safely.  And until next time, Happy Gardening.  

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.  ~Gerard Nerval  


Hello all.  Today the weather is forecast to bring 90+ degree temps.  Phew, sounds like a day to work outdoors this AM.  So guess I best get going.  Will return ....
Until next time, Happy Gardening.
 


 

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ~ Susan Polis Schutz 

I like to dance, I like the sun, I like to pick flowers ... how fun that sounds to have wildflowers in my hair!!!!  A hippie.  From the 70's.  Yep!  Sounds like me!!!

So how are your flower beds lookin'?  The daylilies here at Oakville Farm are showing themselves.  Had so many distractions today, did not get to photograph them.  That is certainly on my list for 'morrow.

Do you ever have a day where you think everything is going smoothly, then when you sit down in the late afternoon and reflect over the day ... well, things might not have gone so smoothly???  It was one of those days here.  Like, had plans, then an unexpected visitor, then phone calls, then family issues, then grocery store, then bill payment, then school, then home, then dinner.  Oh my, sounds like a typical day.  So where did the plans unravel?  Will contemplate on that for a bit.

Hope you had a good day. 

And until next time, Happy Gardening.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tropical Storm Andrea is gone from here.  She left behind more than 5" of rain here at Oavkille Farm.  Driveway washed out in a few places, quick stream of flowing water ran thru daylilies, water standing under the goat shelter!!!!  And speaking of goats, have not seen them for 2 days.  They do not like to get their hooves wet.  Have found high ground, Somewhere in and around the pasture.

Have been outdoors and the things I see!!!! Much more green, shrubs laying down from rains/wind ... I was in awe!!!

Goin' out again.  Hope you have a good Saturday and until next time, Happy Gardening.

No two gardens are the same.  No two days are the same in one garden.  ~Hugh Johnson

True, oh so true.  My brother-in-law always has a beautiful vegetable garden.  So clean, well manicured, well thought out.  And my sister has the same in her flower garden.  All so beautiful.  Strive to be like them in my older age!!! 

Daylilies are a very forgiving perennial that should be in EVERY yard/garden.  Good green foliage, drought tolerant, disease free.  Just a perfect plant. 

This is the daylily Hemerocallis Cabbage Flower.  It is an early bloomer.  Double yellow.  Nice thick scapes.  Blooms stay close to the foliage.  A good contrast of color between bright yellow and rich green.

 
Hope you will find that one daylily (then two, then three, then MORE daylilies) will enter your life.  They will provide many  years of enjoyment.

Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.
 

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.  ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Flower arranging, sunshine .. two good parts of ones day.  :)

So how are your daylilies?  Have four new bloomers today.  Just can inside for a glass of iced tea and to pick up camera.  Gonna "shoot me some daylilies"!!!!

Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

 

 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.  ~Victor Hugo

Yeah, a nice little shower last night.  About 3/4" of rain.  It was sorely needed.  Goin' out now to see how perky everything is lookin' ...

Friends are flowers that never fade.  ~Author Unknown


Want to share a few sayings that caught my eye.  Hope you had a good day.  Until next time, Happy Gardening.