Meet Stella
@GardenGerty (160908)
United States
June 7, 2023 6:03pm CST
I got a surprise while I was watering. My Stella d'Oro day lily is blooming.
It is a miniature plant as compared to traditional day lilies. Okay, looking online they are technically "dwarf" re blooming day lilies.
I could buy four plants for $89 plus shipping, but no thanks. I dug mine up for free.
The house next door to me used to have some lovely plants. It is abandoned and neglected. The lady's son comes and mows with his riding mower and cuts down everything he can mow over. The back yard is a jungle. I am pleased that before he started mowing down the plants I got a Stella for my own. I may find other things to dig eventually, now that I know no one cares.
Or I may find poison ivy. There is a lot of that.
I learned about three years ago that the secret to keeping them reblooming is to cut off the dead flowers. Or let them develop into seed pods, then cut them off when ripe. I actually have a baggie of the seeds somewhere. I would not mind having more, they are easy care.
Hubby is cooking a frozen pizza. The boil water orders have been lifted.I have had a nice shower. The cats are indoors. All is right with my world.
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@allknowing (137627)
• India
8 Jun 23
How pretty!! Never seen a lily like this They get suckers too I am sure
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
They can be divided at the root as this one was.
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@AmbiePam (93797)
• United States
8 Jun 23
It is absolutely beautiful! Diana recently took a picture of a couple of her lilies, and sent them to me, but she was annoyed because she hasn't been able to pull the weeds also in the picture. With her recovering hip, and my dad's recovering neck, no one is medically cleared to pull the weeds!
Between the two of you, you guys are going to have quite a lot of gorgeous lilies.
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
There are so many kinds of lilies. They use daylilies a lot in the parks.
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! Good that you rescued her from your neighbor's. But don't get the poison ivy!@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
I avoid it. Kill it when I can. I have never had it, so I should knock on wood.
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@much2say (55921)
• Los Angeles, California
14 Jun 23
@GardenGerty I hope you never get it! Does it actually grow in yards out there? I don't think I've seen it in our neighborhoods but it's always possible it could be out in the hills when we hike.
@LadyDuck (472024)
• Switzerland
8 Jun 23
@GardenGerty We crossed the small park in front of the Assisted Living Apartments. They have planted many nice flowers.
@LindaOHio (181344)
• United States
8 Jun 23
Such a beautiful flower. I hope your seeds germinate. Glad you are happy!
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@BarBaraPrz (47646)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
8 Jun 23
Lovely. Glad that you rescued her. There's one in my neighbor's garden right next to the property line in the front where the fence ends, so it's like mine, too. 
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
It is good when you can appreciate your neighbor's flowers.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16788)
• China
8 Jun 23
The yellow flowers please the eye ! I have seen the one with tangerine flowers.
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
I think all of the other varieties have been bred from the original tangerine ones.
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@RebeccasFarm (90339)
• Arvada, Colorado
8 Jun 23
Oh it is lovely I had never heard of these Heather.
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
Day lilies are so easy care. This kind is small and it blooms and blooms.
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@DaddyEvil (137519)
• United States
8 Jun 23
My first wife and I had several of the Stella D'Oro plants in one of our flowerbeds. They were beautiful.
I'm glad you're getting some nice plants from the abandoned house...
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
I will likely plant more of these.
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@wolfgirl569 (107994)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Jun 23
It's pretty. That's a good way to get new plants
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
I will have to see what else I can liberate.
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
I hope to get out to some parks and gardens for more pretty pictures.
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@almostoveryou (4805)
• Philippines
8 Jun 23
Hello, pretty Stella. My second daughter's name is Stella. :)
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@Butterfingers (66583)
• India
8 Jun 23
That's a very nice flower and glad they are blooming now
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@GardenGerty (160908)
• United States
8 Jun 23
These will continue to bloom clear into fall.
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