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Today's Garden Pics: My White Daylily: Though, among Daylilies, "white" is more a creamy white with a trace of yellow in the center. It's relatively new. I bought and planted this one 2 years ago and this is it's first bloom! It's petals have a ruffled edge and the greenery is tall and doesn't die back during winter. (some do) I grow these special colored hybrid daylilies in particular to photograph.   And a Balloon Flower: The bud just prior to opening looks like a hot air balloon, thus the name.  I like it because it is a blue flower. 

Today's Garden Pic for this last day of May is White Day Lilies! Many of my hybrid lilies have names. These are called "Ladies Gloves." They're a creamy white with yellowish centers. Very profuse bloomers. In Other Garden News:  I was pleased to discover two of my birdhouses finally got used this year and I actually recently had to empty nest out of them! They've been hanging out there for at least 3 years as empty real estate till this spring! One was a Tufted Titmouse nest, which is built in a loose style with a lot of leaves mixed in. It wasn't very neat or tightly constructed.  I also know it was Titmouse's in that birdhouse, because I found their feathered fledgling youngin' on the ground right below it, on his first day out of the nest.  The other birdhouse had a Carolina Wren nest that was very delicately constructed first with a thick bed of moss topped with fine dog fur with a wee dent in the top to hold the eggs. It practi...