> > This year has been catastrophic for our day lilies (Hemerocallis). The plants are entirely healthy but the deer each evening have eaten the fresh buds before they could bloom. Out of multiple stands of daylily there are very few blooms > and as you may know they only bloom for a day. > Here are a few of the flowers that made their brief appearance. The flowers have three similar petals and three sepals, collectively called tepals. The centermost part of the flower, called the throat, may be a different color than the more distal areas of the tepals. Each flower has six stamens joined to the perianth tube, each with a two-lobed anther The unequal stamen filaments are curved upward. >  > > On the right is the classic ditch-lily found along our rural highways. Its one of the flowers with which I > started my gardens. >  > > Below is a more classic day lily which was in the front garden when we moved into our house in 1978. >  > > Lilies > I have been thinking > about living > like the lilies > that blow in the fields. > > They rise and fall > in the edge of the wind, > and have no shelter > from the tongues of the cattle, > > and have no closets or cupboards, > and have no legs. > Still I would like to be > as wonderful > > as the old idea. > But if I were a lily > I think I would wait all day > for the green face > > of the hummingbird > to touch me. > What I mean is, > could I forget myself > > even in those feathery fields? > When Van Gogh > preached to the poor > of coarse he wanted to save someone-- > > most of all himself. > He wasn't a lily, > and wandering through the bright fields > only gave him more ideas > > it would take his life to solve. > I think I will always be lonely > in this world, where the cattle > graze like a black and white river-- > > where the vanishing lilies > melt, without protest, on their tongues-- > where the hummingbird, whenever there is a fuss, > just rises and floats away. > > Mary Oliver >
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