"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sitting outdoors in a rocker, on a porch swing or in a lounge chair on a sunlite, breezy afternoon with a book by your favorite author, with a cold glass of sweetened ice tea .... well what better way is there to spend a few hours? Both my sister and sister-in-law love to read. One with her books on a Kindle other with her books in paper form. :)

Or do you have a stack of seed/plant catalogs at your feet, perusing each with intrigue and ideas? The catalogs should be filling your mailbox on a weekly basis. Have previously mentioned several publications that I like. I picked up a Mother Earth News magazine last week at Tractor Supply, a fav here. Numerous others, hope you will pick one today and enjoy.

Be sure and keep your daylily list handy. Daylilies are a great perennial that require minimal care, are super hardy and come a large variety of colors.

Well, looks like time for posters. Have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author Unknown

Are there weeds in your flowerbed, in your garden area, or are weeds just in your way? We had a good amount of rain this past weekend, very welcome I must say. Have had sunshine for the past two days, again very welcome. And today as I look out amongst flowerbeds in the yard ... WOW, the weeds have really grown! Shooting up the grapevine, into the bushes, around the iris and in the daylilies. What must be done? Sounds like a day to be pulling weeds, spraying weeds, saying good bye to weeds!

Guess I better begin. Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Blogging, what is it all about? I like to make notes, show photos, share ideas and a blog is a good place. I frequent other blogs, do you? And oh my, blogs come in so many styles and forms. So blog away ... Oakville Farm.

Today, weather is coolish, more seasonable, in the low 60's. Abundant sunshine and breezy. Indeed a day for a jacket, hat/hood, long pants, gloves ... all for gardening. Unlike yesterday, when we were outdoors in shorts, sandals, sleeveless tops. Our weather always available at OFW.

Have been doing inventory on daylilies. And oh it looks like time to divide and separate. Some clumps of daylilies have two fans, other clumps have forty or more fans! So best get outdoors with garden spade and get started. Hope you have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.

PS, oh wow, was looking over previous blog entries and found a misspelled word and that the photos were in the wrong place.
All has been corrected. :)

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ~Mark Twain


Weather here at OFW, today, well one can say it is WET. Yes, almost an inch of rain since midnight. And we are very glad. The hues of green that abound are vast and simply beautiful.

Oakville Farm website is moving along nicely. Daylily photos and prices are now being added. There are price reductions, newly added cultivars, out of stock items. Stay tuned for the new re-grand opening of Oakville Farm.

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

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Author Unknown

Are you formulating your garden ideas? Vegetable garden ... Water garden ... Rock garden ... Flower garden ... Oooooh, just to name a few.

Was talking to an inqusitive gardener yesterday about daylilies. They think that daylilies only come in the color "Orange". They do come in orange, however, with over 60,000 daylily cultivars, the colors are almost endless. From creamy white to light dusty pink to coral red to lavender to yellow to red orange to reddish black. The color scheme for daylilies is so wide!!! With no true white nor true blue daylilies, hybridizers are working feverishly to correct this. Never know what new colors are on the horizon.

We are in Region 15 of the American Hemerocallis Society, which includes North and South Carolina. The summer meeting will be held in Morganton, North Carolina in June ... the beautiful mountains and foothills. If you are in or around that area, might want to make plans to visit daylily farms. Home grown daylilies, directly out of the field are a true treasure.

When you are near us, Oakville Farm, Macon, North Carolina, 1122 Wise Five Forks Rd. .... stop on by. We have over 200 daylily cultivars to peruse, goats to see, dogs to throw balls for and one lazy kitty!

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

PS. Harvested first asparagus this week. Oh, the first treat of the year. Love it raw, grilled, boiled, broiled. What is your favorite? Yum

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
~Helen Hayes

Oh yes, hope you see and feel earth's energy today. Our weather forecast is for above normal temperatures with a chance of rain showers each day. Weather more like June than March. See what is happening here at Oakville Farm at OFW

In an earlier blog, was talking about cleaning up around daylilies vs leaving decaying leaves as mulch. Took two photos, maybe that will help you decide what to do.



BEFORE.....




AFTER.....









It truly is personal preference, which works best for your daylilies and you. My sister has a red mulch around her daylilies, so she wants them groomed, where a friend has hers in amongst many many plants and trees and chooses not to "demulch".

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

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain


2012 Spring Equinox Yes, it began at 1:14 AM. Found this info about it, Spring.....

What images/thoughts do you have when someone says spring?

Spring training
Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC
Blooming tulips
Spring cleaning
Spring fever
College spring break
Easter
Month of March
Shorts/tank tops
Pollen

Oh my! I just like the word spring. It sounds fun, intriguing , means the beginning of something new.











If you live in Zone 7 or higher, your daylilies should also be popping up. Here at Oakville Farm, daylilies are showing anywhere from just a spot of green to over twelve inches out of the ground. The anticipation of them growing, sending up scapes and blooming is so exciting.

Hope you find time to spend outdoors today. Have a good day and until next time, Happy Gardening.