I love Fire and Fog too but I think I love your English lawn even more. Tried to do that here but gave up and laid pebbles instead. That is something I miss, mowing the grass and clipping the edges, I don't think. Fire & Fog will be on my next list when I order more.
Final Touch is a lovely one too. I have this one but after making a fancy label, I can't find where to stick it! It seems to have disappeared from its original bed but I fancy it was a bit sickly so I dug it up to save it and now I've lost it. It will come to light when all the foliage has died down in the flower border.
I'm glad I have several bits of Corky as your photo really shows it be a beauty.
Kathy, on 28/11 you asked me what the red flower was in the corner of my photo of my Daylillies. Here is a photo today of that rose with many more flowers on it.
Hi Lorna. Yes I love the colour of that rose as well. Sorry to distract from Kathys Daylillies. Just following up from a previous post. I'm hoping that I'll have a photo of my double daylilly to post soon. The bids are fattening up.
Maureen, I have very clay soil and very alkaline too but Verbena grows like a weed here. I think it is because most of the front garden is laid to pebbles over fabric stuff and the seeds get cultivated in the fine sand that came with the pebbles, all 45 tonnes of the stuff. The seedlings get going and then push fibrous roots down through the fabric and get nourishment and water from the clay below. This makes it fairly easy to pull up too, although some roots get quite big and pierce the membrane causing great rips when I pull up large plants. It is s good idea to plant the seed through grit as I am sure it would have the same effect.
Kathy, Fire and Fog sound like a good one for me to plant in the pebbles where it would be regarded as a specimen plant. I am still clearing out a long island bed of the common daylily which has completely taken over in recent years. It is really hard going but I am getting rid of all the couch and cinqufoil which is a real pain as the roots go down more than 18 inches. I can only do a about an hour at a time as it is really hard and heavy soil and I don't want to miss even the smallest bit of root. Nearly halfway now so I hope the dry weather persists.
Have y ou any Christmas themed daylilies Kathy? I only have Christmas Is, which is delightful.
Can I wish everyone on this thread a very happy time at Christmas and a wonderful 2016 in the garden.
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ditto Lorna. They're lovely.
I love Fire and Fog too but I think I love your English lawn even more. Tried to do that here but gave up and laid pebbles instead. That is something I miss, mowing the grass and clipping the edges, I don't think.
Fire & Fog will be on my next list when I order more.
Final Touch is a lovely one too. I have this one but after making a fancy label, I can't find where to stick it! It seems to have disappeared from its original bed but I fancy it was a bit sickly so I dug it up to save it and now I've lost it. It will come to light when all the foliage has died down in the flower border.
I'm glad I have several bits of Corky as your photo really shows it be a beauty.
My day lilies are useless, may dig them up, put in a pot and ignore
Kathy, on 28/11 you asked me what the red flower was in the corner of my photo of my Daylillies. Here is a photo today of that rose with many more flowers on it.
Thanks everyone
Elizabeth I can't take credit for the lawn that's my OH's job although I do do the edges, he likes his stripes too.
Fire and Fog is lovely but it does get huge the biggest fans on any I have they're monstrous lol.
My friend makes great labels using old milk cartons somehow he melts the name into the plastic.
Wow!!! Pat that rose is stuinning
Pat that rose is a beauty, love the colour.
Hi Lorna. Yes I love the colour of that rose as well. Sorry to distract from Kathys Daylillies. Just following up from a previous post. I'm hoping that I'll have a photo of my double daylilly to post soon. The bids are fattening up.
Pat it's nice to see other flowers aswell and your rose is beautiful, Can't wait to see a photo of your daylilly.
Thanks Lorna. It'll be a few days yet, I think.
Maureen, I have very clay soil and very alkaline too but Verbena grows like a weed here. I think it is because most of the front garden is laid to pebbles over fabric stuff and the seeds get cultivated in the fine sand that came with the pebbles, all 45 tonnes of the stuff. The seedlings get going and then push fibrous roots down through the fabric and get nourishment and water from the clay below. This makes it fairly easy to pull up too, although some roots get quite big and pierce the membrane causing great rips when I pull up large plants. It is s good idea to plant the seed through grit as I am sure it would have the same effect.
Kathy, Fire and Fog sound like a good one for me to plant in the pebbles where it would be regarded as a specimen plant. I am still clearing out a long island bed of the common daylily which has completely taken over in recent years. It is really hard going but I am getting rid of all the couch and cinqufoil which is a real pain as the roots go down more than 18 inches. I can only do a about an hour at a time as it is really hard and heavy soil and I don't want to miss even the smallest bit of root. Nearly halfway now so I hope the dry weather persists.
Have y ou any Christmas themed daylilies Kathy? I only have Christmas Is, which is delightful.
Can I wish everyone on this thread a very happy time at Christmas and a wonderful 2016 in the garden.