Road trip! Early yesterday morning my friends Mary, Sally, and I drove to Bobbi Johnson's open garden/plant sale just outside of Tomah towards Oakdale. Bobbi has a HUGE field that has hundreds and hundreds of daylilies rowed out. The field was once a former vegetable garden. The 'former vegetable garden' scenario sounded quite familiar to me, as I'm sure it does for many other daylily addicts who no longer have vegetable gardens.
You have to know that a huge field with countless daylilies was equivalent to putting the three of us inside of a candy store! We started out systematically following the rows, but quickly got sidetracked when we saw something we liked a few rows over. Pretty soon we were all over the place, lost in our own little daylily worlds. It was peak bloom and the flowers were so beautiful. Bobbi has every size, shape, and color available and could easily answer any question we had about the flowers. We were in heaven.
What a fun morning! We had some great conversation and laughter in the car, enjoyed the beautiful weather, and each brought home a daylily (or three) to remember the day. Now comes the challenging part...finding a place to put them.
You have to know that a huge field with countless daylilies was equivalent to putting the three of us inside of a candy store! We started out systematically following the rows, but quickly got sidetracked when we saw something we liked a few rows over. Pretty soon we were all over the place, lost in our own little daylily worlds. It was peak bloom and the flowers were so beautiful. Bobbi has every size, shape, and color available and could easily answer any question we had about the flowers. We were in heaven.
What a fun morning! We had some great conversation and laughter in the car, enjoyed the beautiful weather, and each brought home a daylily (or three) to remember the day. Now comes the challenging part...finding a place to put them.
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Daylilies pictured: 'Ellis Powell,' 'God Save the Queen,' 'Bluegrass Memories,' 'Jerry Hyatt,' ''He Man,' 'Spots Before My Eyes,' 'Green Python,' 'Rose F. Kennedy.' Kitty pictured: 'Rosebud' (who also seems to like daylilies)
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