Daylily season
May is daylily season in my garden and now that the month is winding down, many of them are in their glory. Don't ask me their names - they are lost in the mists of history or in my chaotic garden records.
Poetry Sunday: Excerpt from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president last Thursday, Vice-President Biden quoted from a work by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney. I was not familiar with the poem and so I had to look it up. It is from a work entitled The Cure at Troy which was an adaptation by Heaney, written in verse, of Sophocles' play, Philoctetes . Philoctetes was a Greek master archer who was abandoned on a desert island by his fellow soldiers and countrymen and was later asked by the Greeks to return to fight in the Trojan War. The work was published in 1991 and in writing it, Heaney evidently was thinking of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. It seems to fit equally well our own troubles of today. It is a poem for all times. Verses from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Human beings suffer They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. The innocent in gaols Beat on their bars together.
Oh, they are gorgeous! Do they last?
ReplyDeleteEach blossom only lasts a day - thus, DAYlily. But each plant has multiple buds that can bloom over a period of weeks.
Deletehow pretty. Our Iris are in bloom now
ReplyDeleteI love iris, too. I'm hoping my butterfly iris will give me another good season of blooms this year as it did last year.
DeleteBeautiful! My Mini Pearl is getting ready to bloom. Seems like I just place this order and now they are going to bloom. I ordered from Oakes, the company Susan Brownmiller used for her daylilies on her balcony in NY. Oakes has an amazing selection and I was very pleased with each plant (HUGE).
ReplyDelete'Mini Pearl' - gotta love that name! I've never ordered from Oakes, but thanks for the heads-up. I'll add them to my list.
DeleteWow - you have some real beauties, Dorothy!
ReplyDeleteI do love my daylilies.
DeleteThey are so beautiful. I am going to come back and look at them several times today.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!
DeleteLovely, Dorothy! I also used to have detailed maps with all the names but time disrupts all that, so I don't remember many names either. Here it is iris, rose, and rhododendron season, only the Lemon lilies are blooming, at least I always know what they are. The daylilies should start soon.
ReplyDeleteSloppy record-keeping is the bane of my gardening experience, but I enjoy the blooms even when I don't know their names.
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