~ Ailea's Daylily Garden ~
Summer, 2003
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  Two different
views of the front daylily garden in full bloom - on the left the viewer
is looking northeast onto the back deck and western end of the house
(the back yard is to the left of the image), and on the right side the viewer is looking south,
from
the
other end of the deck (with the back yard behind the camera). The dark green
blob on the top right of the left image and center background of the
right is a weeping cherry tree. |
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St. Francis may have been the first, but I later added the sprite you can see in the next photo at right, and then several years later I found the most wonderful hammered-iron pig at Fruth Pharmacy in Proctorville, no less, and it, too was added and is in the next image below, on the right. |
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Stepping back... You get to see The Van- hey, that ol' gal has over 300,000 miles on her and she still starts every time you turn the key, she uses only a half quart of oil between changes the same as she always has, and I would take her to Huntington and back home again tomorrow if I had to. No complaints about MY Astro! <Note: you really have to click to enlarge the image to see the pig mentioned, which can be seen in the lower left portion of the photo> |
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A view taken from the steps looking onto the lily garden includes a portion of my original Windchime Tree- a dead cedar Tommy cut and drove into the ground near the steps up the back deck, and from which I have hung many different wind chimes, wind art, and other items on the branches that were left sticking out- |
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A note added
September, 2008: Anyone keeping up with regional news would know we here in Carolina are just coming out of the worst draught in Carolina's recorded history (2007). We did try to keep the garden watered a little bit because it was SO dry for SO long, but we really couldn't keep up with how much was lacking from Mother Nature. The daylily beds did suffer some - the amount and length of time of this year's blooming season were greatly reduced - but we didn't lose a single lily, and actually only lost one azalea as a result of last year's desert-like conditions. |
(A red camellia)
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