Hydrangea, Hemerocallis, and Hellebore.

Eight months ago, in April, back when I was posting only one or two pictures a day instead of three or six or even, as today, ten, I posted 55 pictures of plants and flowers from my FloraPix folder of around 500. I had planned to do a second month of flower pix but have officially run out of months. I'm going to post a few over the next couple of days because, well, just because I like them.

Hydrangeas from our yard.

There are over 60,000 cultivars of the humble daylily, of which we have .0067%, or four. This is the common roadside daylily one sees everywhere in Pennsylvania, Hemerocallis fulva. These, by the way, are not (at least not excessively) photoshopped images; at certain times of the day the daylilies are in the sun and the garage and juniper hedge behind them are in the shade.

These last three are of Hellebores, common name Lenton Rose, that my next door neighbor Joan grows. They are prized for their hardiness, their winter or early spring bloom, and their ultra weird buds and blooms.