A hungry Eastern Tiger swallowtail butterfly gave ‘The Garden Guy’ a lesson a couple of days ago and that is, everyone loves an orange smoothie in the summer. As you might suspect I am playing with you, but just a little.
This year I planted daylilies for the first time in years. While I was the director of University of Georgia’s Coastal Georgia Botanical Garden in Savannah, Ga.I was amazed to see what daylily hybridizing was accomplishing. The American Hemerocallis Display Garden showed some of the most beautiful flowers on the planet.
This year was ‘The Garden Guy’s’ time to put the daylily to test, so to speak, but in a different manner than in Savannah. First, those daylilies were mostly regional. In other words, they were developed and sold locally by some of the area’s best breeders and daylily farms, which is absolutely fine. A daylily collector or enthusiast could track these down but the average Joe Gardener would find it tough to buy at the local garden center. So, this year I wanted to try some of the massed produced varieties so to speak and selected several of the Rainbow Rhythm group from Proven Winners. As you may already be guessing Rainbow Rhythm Orange Smoothie was one of my chosen selections.
