The "When Dawn Was Faintly Breaking Across The Garden Fair" Story

Night-Blooming Lily

It was an ordinary day.  I'm standing in Carol's lovely garden admiring all the flowers and plants.  Seems every year I post photos of Carol's array of flowers that grace the property which holds our Beach House in Lancaster, PA.  Today I will add one more addition to the colorful blooms that Carol seems to have the knack of raising for our enjoyment.  I have been taking photographs for the past couple of weeks of her garden and tonight, as the sun was fading over the hills to the north, I snapped my final specimen, the Night-Blooming Lily which is one of my favorites that she plants every year.  This beautiful and large white bloom is part of an array of plants in a big vessel that also carries the Plumeria which she brought back from Hawaii in 1999.  That plant will more than likely not have blooms for another month so I have decided to publish those plants that have bloomed and are beautifying Carol's lovely garden.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - click on the photographs to enlarge.

Asian Lillies

Leaf from a Banana Plant

Caladiums

Cats & Kittens or Hens & Chicks

Dragon Begonias

Dark yellow Day Lily

Light yellow Day Lily

Hibiscus 

Leaf of an Elephant Ear

Gardenia

Geranium

Hosta

Lamb's Ears

Marigolds

Salvia

Shepard's Crook

Blackberry Orchid

Shata Daisy bud

Shata Daily

Sunflower plant

Sunflower

Zinia

Catnip

And … the cat!

This is not from her garden, but is the bud of our Mimosa Tree.

The bud has opened is the fragrance is amazing.

This plant and the next few we were unable to identify. 

Many of these plants and flowers grow under the watchful eye of our permanent guest by our pond.