Plant lovers Joe and Betty Ferrell have an entire botanical garden surrounding their home. Here in East Texas this past week temperatures are scorching at 100*F daily or 38*C with hot dry winds ripping along at 25 MPH.
Daffodils have already died down due to the heat and drought, Bearded Iris have finished blooming but many of the newer varieties are re-bloomers and will begin again with the first summer rains and a break in the heat.
Day lilies are just one of the Ferrell’s plant collections and if you have the room these will easily hide the last of the daffodil foliage and they will also shade the ground in the higher heat areas of the world.
Day lilies are better photographed early in the morning when they first open. I shot a few photos yesterday just after lunch when the sun had burned the colors and the flower edges already.
There are also a few tomato plants in with their day lilies, and an old heirloom petunia that fills in the gaps each year as they return from seeds. These beds are covered in poppies early in the season. Again doubles, singles and volunteer poppies in various shades.
Hybridizers are pulling colors as if from a painters palette and almost any combination you can imagine is in the newer selections and or cast off re-jects from their breeding programs.
There are lots of different plants that could be used to hide the foliage of your daffodils and bring joy and sunshine into your yard. Keith Kridler Mt. Pleasant, Texas