That daylily must have been named after you Verdun lol
All these grass names are confusing me , the prairie effect is very effective in your garden Elizabeth looks lovely,one of my Stipa Gigantea is still upright but is sheltered from the winds by a laurel hedge, the others flattened.
I bought 3 new ones in the summer tiny plants but potted them on a couple of times and now they're in the garden, except one which I'm still deciding where to plant, Helictotrichon Sempervirums(blue oat grass), Panicum Virgatum 'Prairie Sky' and the one thats not planted yet and is now a huge plant Eragrostis Curvula 'Totnes Burgundy', really pleased with them all, do you grow these Verdun?
A couple more of my seedlings, these are both from a cross of Alison Sommers x Angel Falls the first one is definitely the keeper from these two, not a particularly good flower as it opened late in the season but it has 9inch flowers and that lovely watermark compared to 6inch flowers on the second.
Love the first one Kathy, it's beautiful and so large a flower. I don't think any of mine get anywhere near that big. Your soil must be better than mine, in fact, I am sure it is as no-one could have such horrible soil as me.
Your new grasses sound delightful Kathy. Maybe I should buy some more and fill more of the pebbled area. They are so easy to look after and as old age is not too far away, it will make gardening less tiring.
That explains your ability to grow tender plants Verdun, the sea always raises the ambient temperature a little bit higher. I did manage to keep the potted P. Rubrum going in the greenhouse (unheated) last year but it was very mild generally. I think the forecast for this winter is supposed to be very cold. We shall wait and see.
Elizabeth Alison Sommers has 11 inch flowers Angel Falls 7 inch so the first one must take after its pod parent, fingers crossed the size might increase next year I've had a lot of second year seedlings that have , all the seedlings are planted on our allotment so yes the soil is very good too
Grasses are starting to appeal to me more and more too, they look good for so long.
Verdun I googled Shenandoah that is a lovely one! Now where could I put one mmm.
Some more of my seedlings today, these are all from a cross of (Big Kiss X Barn Owl) x (Sallie Brown x Give me Eight), first year flowering for these so hoping they improve, Big Kiss is a lovely double, Give me Eight is 70% polymerous(extra petals and sepals) so fingers crossed that some of them do one or the other next year.
The texture of this one reminded me of cheesecloth, showing my age now lol.
I just give mine a seaweed based feed in the spring I did use the one you just water on but now I have so many the pelleted is easier.
Some do have a much higher bud count than others some are as low as 5 per scape while others can branch and have 30 or more so a big difference in length of flowering, a good site for information is the AHS database, if you search a particular Daylily on Google the database will usually be near the top, it gives all the information you need breeder, height, dormant, evergreen, whether they rebloom,which quite a lot of the newer ones do, and of course bud count
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That daylily must have been named after you Verdun lol
All these grass names are confusing me
, the prairie effect is very effective in your garden Elizabeth looks lovely,one of my Stipa Gigantea is still upright but is sheltered from the winds by a laurel hedge, the others flattened.
I bought 3 new ones in the summer tiny plants but potted them on a couple of times and now they're in the garden, except one which I'm still deciding where to plant, Helictotrichon Sempervirums(blue oat grass), Panicum Virgatum 'Prairie Sky' and the one thats not planted yet and is now a huge plant Eragrostis Curvula 'Totnes Burgundy', really pleased with them all, do you grow these Verdun?
A couple more of my seedlings, these are both from a cross of Alison Sommers x Angel Falls the first one is definitely the keeper from these two, not a particularly good flower as it opened late in the season but it has 9inch flowers and that lovely watermark compared to 6inch flowers on the second.
Love the first one Kathy, it's beautiful and so large a flower. I don't think any of mine get anywhere near that big. Your soil must be better than mine, in fact, I am sure it is as no-one could have such horrible soil as me.
Your new grasses sound delightful Kathy. Maybe I should buy some more and fill more of the pebbled area. They are so easy to look after and as old age is not too far away, it will make gardening less tiring.
That explains your ability to grow tender plants Verdun, the sea always raises the ambient temperature a little bit higher. I did manage to keep the potted P. Rubrum going in the greenhouse (unheated) last year but it was very mild generally. I think the forecast for this winter is supposed to be very cold. We shall wait and see.
Elizabeth Alison Sommers has 11 inch flowers Angel Falls 7 inch so the first one must take after its pod parent, fingers crossed the size might increase next year I've had a lot of second year seedlings that have
, all the seedlings are planted on our allotment so yes the soil is very good too 
Grasses are starting to appeal to me more and more too, they look good for so long.
Verdun I googled Shenandoah that is a lovely one! Now where could I put one mmm.
Some more of my seedlings today
, these are all from a cross of (Big Kiss X Barn Owl) x (Sallie Brown x Give me Eight), first year flowering for these so hoping they improve, Big Kiss is a lovely double, Give me Eight is 70% polymerous(extra petals and sepals) so fingers crossed that some of them do one or the other next year.
The texture of this one reminded me of cheesecloth, showing my age now lol.
Haha Verdun I will convert you
I just give mine a seaweed based feed in the spring I did use the one you just water on but now I have so many the pelleted is easier.
Some do have a much higher bud count than others some are as low as 5 per scape while others can branch and have 30 or more so a big difference in length of flowering, a good site for information is the AHS database, if you search a particular Daylily on Google the database will usually be near the top, it gives all the information you need breeder, height, dormant, evergreen, whether they rebloom,which quite a lot of the newer ones do, and of course bud count
Photo from bedroom window this morning