new daylilies

the daylily society of minnesota had a sale yesterday, and my dad and i went and checked it out. i came home with four new daylily varieties! very good prices.


digging the second new flower bed larger to accommodate the colored daylilies i bought (as opposed to all the orange ones i already had).


the bunnies were chewing on my plants in this front garden. this is bunny tail grass nibbled practically down to the ground.


canterbury bells, heavily nibbled


the daylily society didnt scrimp on roots!
smith brothers daylilies




smith brothers flower picture on pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872223582730/

smith brothers planting location (for my reference, what i put where)


chicago apache daylilies




chicago apache flower picture on pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872223582711/

chicago apache location in the garden (so later when they finally bloom, i know what is what)


best seller daylily picked up earlier from the hennepin technical college plant sale




best seller location in the garden


scarlet orbit daylilies




scarlet orbit flower picture on pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872223582875/

scarlet orbit location in the garden


of the next group of photos, i'm unsure which is which, because they havent bloomed yet. but these are supposed to be either bela lugosi daylilies, or purple de oro daylilies. i got them both at the friends plant sale like 5 years ago. they were bare roots, and seem to have taken ages for them to catch up.

bela lugosi flower picture on pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872223583404/
purple de oro flower picture on pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872223583423/

the first one i was able to divide into four separate clumps. bela lugosi or purple de oro


location picture


this one divided into two clumps. location picture. purple de oro or bela lugosi.


swirling water daylilies




swirling water flower picture on pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872223583484/

swirling water daylily location picture


picture of the finished garden with all the new daylilies in it.


so all the colored daylilies are here, and all the orange daylilies are in a separate bed.


now with added bunny fencing (chicken wire)

hashbrown casserole

i made hashbrown casserole. i finally found a recipe i really like. (i have 7 different recipes printed out that i've tried in the past...)

mix everything up except the hashbrowns


i didnt think the hashbrowns would all fit in the bowl so i divided them by three into the pans


divided the mix by the three pans


stirred it all up in each pan


i put one pan in the oven, and covered the other two with plastic wrap, pressing it down against the food.


then i covered them in foil and wrote the cooking instructions on the foil.


it was so good i forgot to take a picture of it when i took it out of the oven.


Crack Potatoes or Loaded Potato Casserole

2 (16oz) containers sour cream (1-1/2. 24oz sour cream is plenty, dont need 32oz)
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded (or more, hehehe)
2 (3oz) bags real bacon bits (instead i used 2 pkgs of diced ham, 8 oz each)
2 packages Ranch Dip mix
1 large (28 - 30oz) bag frozen shredded hash brown potatoes (many comments on the recipe suggested more hashbrowns were needed, that this should have been doubled like everything else, so i used 2 bags, 20 oz each, of a refrigerated variety rather than frozen)

Combine first 4 ingredients. Mix in hash browns.
Spread into a 9x13 pan. Bake uncovered at 400 for 45-60 minutes.
OR
divide into 3 small 7x7 disposable foil pans and freeze them. wrap them with plastic wrap and then foil. bake 60 minutes from frozen after being sure to remove plastic wrap.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/335447872215090110/
http://www.plainchicken.com/2011/01/crack-potatoes.html

knitted green dragon

adorable knitted dragon made by a gal in the 'crafty geek' meetup group


backside, his wings and tail and the spikes down his back. isnt he just fabulous!

gardening uses lots of pots

greenhouse is full of empty pots that need to be washed before storing til next year.


still a few things left in the greenhouse. the daylilies started from seed, some butterfly bush, a comfrey seedling, and one basil held in reserve in case the other two in the raised bed died.


the few red onions that survived


the confusing tray i planted with lettuce that came up half lettuce half tomatoes (which is confusing because tomato seeds look nothing like lettuce seeds)


the dogs have dug out a pretty deep hole under the stairs where i dumped sand so they'd have a spot to dig that was ok. otherwise molly digs endless holes in the yard and i trip and sprain my ankles. i'll have to take the shovel and shove all the dirt back in the hole, and they'll start all over again. we've been doing this for years now.


you can see some roots sticking out from the nearby tree, and theres a stuffy down in there too. tennis balls often get buried and rediscovered as well.


photographing active dogs is challenging. at least i managed to get puppys rear end in focus... hehehe.


mollys coat looks really pretty here. this is before she started blowing out her undercoat so she's pretty fluffy still.

raspberry flowers

raspberries got really tall this year! molly helps show how tall.


over the years molly has insisted on walking along the fence between the fence and the raspberries. she has a regular trail worn thru there. here she is coming out the end after trekking thru the raspberry patch.


molly walking thru the raspberries on her path

the strawberries are growing!

strawberry buds




strawberry patch


tall strawberry plants

jam and cookbooks

my mom made a small batch of seedless blackberry jam. it was SOOOO good! makes me want to grow a patch of blackberries.


my shelf of cookbooks. this is most of them. i'm trying to get them all in one place.