I planted daylily ‘Uncle Bryan’ late last summer so it’s really unfair for me to photograph it in this condition. Once it’s established in my garden, the flowers will be a gorgeous apple-red.
The reason I’m exposing it to the world in what amounts to a bathrobe and curlers is that I noticed something wasn’t quite right about the flower.
An enterprising Chickadee tried to cache a sunflower seed in the bud. They’ve been doing that a lot these last few weeks. When the flowers open, there are identical holes in some or most of the petals.
But this time we had so much rain that the seed sprouted while inside the bud, and when the daylily opened you could see the seed and the little root sticking out.
If the Chickadees had stuffed the seed in a younger bud, I may have been treated to a tiny sunflower plant when the daylily flower opened!