A Great Day for Daylilies and Butterflies

My first rounds Monday morning were viewing rounds with hardly a few weeds pulled. I saw 3 Pipevine Butterflies and had no camera to catch them. The other thing that caught my eye was Daylilies.

 'Little Business' makes an edge in front of Knockout Roses, as close to a match as I've come. The roses are in a vase so they would be close enough to compare the colors.

Picture on the right has daylilies, Agapanthus -- there will be a fully open bloom soon, Purple Heart and White Shrimp Plant at bottom left, Spider Plant bottom right.

 

Salmon Sheen with California Poppies, Salvia Farinacea and a lying-down Kniphofia bloom.

 

Fairy Tale Pink

 

 

 

Brocaded Gown with Spiderwort, Shasta Daisies and Parsley.

 

Kent's Favorite II or Superlative

Seedling Red

Siloam Ury Winniford

 

 

Silver Veil

Butterflies are back! Pipevine Swallowtail

 

I see the best butterflies when there's no camera with me. The last time I was out, I saw several American Painted Ladies, a Cabbage White and a Cloudless Sulphur. They are nectaring on Catchfly, Pentas and Echinacea. I even saw one Swallowtail nectaring on a fragrant Rose.

 

 

 

 

White Dawn

When I was a child, we had New Dawn roses, not only in the yard but down in the ditch on the way to the big field of bottom land where yard trash was hauled, New Dawn took root and climbed 30 feet into a red cedar. Mama used to go and gather New Dawn there to make bouquets for the Church.

White Dawn

 

I didn't find New Dawn and bought White Dawn, its seedling instead. White Dawn grows only about half as high and can be pruned into a shrub or let climb. I let mine climb a red cedar post.

 

White Dawn on the right, Oakleaf Hydrangea on the left. In this picture, Rose de Rescht has about three blooms in front of the Cycad.

 

White Dawn has glossy, dark green foliage.

 

The post from the back side with my Monkey swinging from a stub.

 

Sombreuil, another white favorite on a cedar post.

I use raffia to train the canes, which looks natural and eventually

breaks down as the cane learns its position.

 

White Dawn and Sombreuil, my favorite White Roses.

Prosperity would have been a fav if I hadn't let it die.

 

Which are your favorite White Roses?