I spent the last year learning about and buying daylilies, I should have said. So now it is finally spring (or so the calendar says) it hailed/snowed here yesterday and you could see your breath out side. I've had enough winter to last a lifetime after this past one! The daylilies are starting to arrive! Good thing I caught that sale Menards had on landscape timbers!
Still not sure if I have enough! I do want to add some seedling beds later this Spring/Summer. May use a different wood for those and put them over on the lot.
Not sure if you can really tell any size from this pic but hopefully it will give an idea of what I am looking at. The pile to the left is a burn pile we have already cut and picked up.
The landscape timbers are for the raised beds going in our yard as it is now. That will change some also as we move our privacy fence over. I can't wait!!
The beds are pretty basic. My SO wants to get weed eater happy on anything that is not inside of some type of bed (working on that). I have three 8' x 4' rectangle beds ready. He is building two 4' x 4' beds later today.
This is how he did the corners. I like the way they look.
I have started to plant them now that the daylilies have started to arrive. I can't wait until they are finished, the mulch is all down and I can see some blooms!
That is an owl I put on the one to keep the neighbors cats from thinking this is their new giant litter box. Seems to be working so far.
I hope there is no more rain today, I really need to get some serious planting done.
Let me start off by saying, if you are considering growing daylilies THEY ARE VERY ADDICTIVE! Oh, but we will get to that. This is a green adventure in the very sense of the word. I don’t mean green as in Beneficial to the environment, all though daylilies are environmentally friendly. I mean green as in not mature or ripe, not yet fully processed, lacking training or experience, a. lacking sophistication or worldly experience; naïve; b. easily duped or deceived; gullible. Yes, there’s a whole list out there for the newbie getting in to the world of daylilies. It’s easy to get caught up in a pretty face. Brings FILO (Falling In Love Obsession) to mind.
To go forward, I have to first go back a little. I have grown daylilies (I say daylilies, I should say one daylily ;) on and off over the last six or so years, just the basic Stella De Oro. Had a rectangle flower bed in the front yard and started with a few plants. Couple of years later, I divided them and re-planted. Four or so years later I had, well way too many for that rectangle flower bed and the front flower beds where I had moved some to previously. That little yellow flower is beautiful it its own right! I could never deny that, I just didn’t want every flower in every flower bed in my yard to be yellow. I mean variety is the spice of life! I remember thinking, if they only came in some other colors like pink. I know I know naïve is flashing before my eyes too. So naïve as I was, I dug them all up and gave them away to my sister.
This brings me to about two years ago. One day while at the local big box home improvement store garden center, I found myself looking at that same yellow flower. You know I took some home! Telling myself I would only keep them in the front flower beds. Last summer I was back at the same hardware garden center. Along with all the yellow daylilies there it was, one loan pink DAYLILY! I was on the other side. As I walked around the display table and just started to reach, a lady nearly knocked me down to grab it. I was shocked and I know I stood there for a second or two with my mouth hanging open as she carried it away. I left the garden center feeling a little bewildered that day. Still it did not dawn on me to check the internet! I can’t figure it out, I am not usually so dense but sometimes you just have those moments in life. I went back to the hardware store the next day. Not for flowers I swear but it never hurts to look. The flower fairy was there that day! As I walked by that infamous table there was not just one but two of the pink daylily! I looked to the left (mostly for that lady), I faked to the right. I went around that table and victory; those two pink daylilies were mine! As I drove home that day with a feeling of satisfaction a thought crept into my mind, I should look on the web for someplace else that might have pink (not even knowing the name) daylilies.
Ah yes, how that green keeps showing through. So that was the day about a year ago that my eyes were open to the world of the daylily. It sort of brings to mind the way Alice must have felt when she fell down the hole. I could hardly believe my eyes! Not only was there pink but most any color imaginable. There were big ones, small ones, yellow, purple, pink! Spiders, UFo’s and the list goes on and on! It’s almost overwhelming but I have spent the biggest part of the last year trying to learn all I can about DAYLILIES…..
I am not a writer or a blogger (this will be my first blog). I mostly just want to keep a sort of record of my Daylilies and other flowers and plants. I live in the city and don’t have tons of acreage. Although we did recently buy another lot (spot of land) which buts up to our property. It needs a few small trees and wild honey suckle cut down but is basically bare except for grass. I have visions of daylilies dancing on that lot going around in my head! So there is much to learn and do and I hope that I am up to the challenge. If you would like to come along as my garden and I grow in “A Green Adventure”, Pleas Do!
