Day 2 of our plant sale has gone very well. We were blessed with plenty of sunshine today although it has been cool and breezy. Above is a shot of customers in our daylily portion of the sale. We put up some additional signage in this area with full color pictures that I think has helped immensely as we've seen more daylilies sold today than yesterday. We had another awesome group of volunteer helpers throughout the day and both Janice and Marianne did another great job keeping things moving along smoothly. Larry worked on pruning a large magnolia and hleped with myriad other tasks while Bill O. tidied up throughout the gardens and continues to be a wonderful volunteer with superior attention to fine detail. Jim worked in the alpine garden as well. Nice shot of another Bill (one of our Grumpies) working at the plant sale this morning (organizing and restocking tomatoes).With our iris collection starting to bloom, we have a crew of Master Gardeners that will photograph individual flowers for our digital picture libary. See 'Bluebeard's Ghost' (Iris germanica) below. There are some early bloomers right now but I can't wait to see this display a year from now when the American Iris Society national conference attendees come and view this exciting collection. At the bottom is shot of the foliage of Rodger's flower (Rodgersia pinnata) that looks very textural and tropical and will tolerate some shade. The creamy flower plume will emerge in June.
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