DAYLILIES

"When you have only two pennies in the world,

buy a loaf of bread with one,

and a lily with the other.    --Chinese proverb

This little sweetie is Cosmic Hummingbird, one of my favorite daylilies. It's small, delicate -- I bought it a few years ago in honor of a good friend who lives on a street named Cosmic Lane.

I love mid-July; the daylily garden is bursting! Tall ones, short ones, ones inbetween -- the colors are superb and the names are irresistible!

Consider: Devil's Footprint, Magic Carpet Ride, Prince of Midnight; Paper Butterfly, Hot Ticket, Farmer's Daughter, Gentle Shepherd.

Some sound like old friends: Monica Marie, Alec Allen, Betty Warren Woods, Barbara Mitchell. Others are towns or cities: Atlanta Fringe Benefit, Lights of Detroit, Jerusalem, Chicago Sunrise.

I've just read about a yellow-gold daylily I think I'll buy for this year's addition to my gardens.

It's called, believe it or not, Delores Gould.

We must be related.