May 8 , 2008
From the producer: 5/10/08
If you ’ve never thought about planting daylilies , you ’ll transfer your mind when you see this week ’s video recording tour ! Rich Rosen and Anna Marie Pavlik were Minnesota transplants who grew roses for many years . Then they get word daylilies . you could conform to Rich in person and see and buy spectacular daylilies , suited for Central Texas , at theAustin Daylily Society Show & Saleon May 24 . Rich will alsoopen his gardento the public on May 26 . you’re able to see head - spinning plants , though I love my honest yellowness . It came listed as Yellow Daylily , so there you go on botanic names . I ’ve divided it countless times , and they ’re happy in the part sun , mostly refinement they get .
A few class ago , I separate some for each side of the cat cove rose arbor . Patiently I waited , and now both sides are flower nicely .
As Rich will say you , you desire the evergreen varieties , which these are . I like them for their upright foliage all yr round , with incentive flush for about two months in late leap . I institute the guy cove 1 , along with spurias and hymenocallis ( summertime bloomers ) to sort of hide the white spaces at the bottom of the climb roses . Rich can set you up with other , mid , and late daylily bloomers for longer flush power . Remember that his garden will also be online on our web internet site , and then archived under Videos . Tell a friend !
This workweek , you ’ll also get a new facial expression at crepe myrtles with Mark Ney fromMcIntire ’s Garden Center . If you thought of them only as specimen tree , you ’ll flip , as Tom and I did , at the miniatures , suitable for a border , small outer space , or even containers . Here ’s one minature , Tightwad .
Others are just turgid enough to form a nice screen along a cheery fence . As always , we ’ll have the plant list on our web site . Check outDr . Carl Whitcomb , who arise many of these small varieties , and hear his account . Tom note his Holy Scripture Know It and Grow It . I plan to order it online . Also , I thank our viewers who recommended McIntire ’s to me .
In my garden this weekend , it ’s housekeeping time . I have vow to keep up with pruning this year . Since my last pictures , everything has filled in completely , and just looks grand ! In the den bottom , here ’s Salvia guaranitica ‘ Argentine Skies . ”
Underneath is Eupatorium greggii . My new lemon salve next to it has explode .
In the rental fence bed , the Salvia guaranitica is starting to flower .
eld ago , this one come to me via my dad , from a Quaker of his in Dallas , who divide it for me . It ’s spread nicely to form a thicket in its shadowy spot with bit of sun throughout the solar day .
By the way , the lease house has been rented , and the guys want to get down a garden ! One of them works at Starbucks , and has been leaving me traveling bag of their ground for Gardeners for my compost pile . Gentle source of nitrogen . I used to spread my own java evidence around the works , but these days , I just cast them in the compost heap .
Last calendar week we go along an optic on the poppy . Here ’s a photo of what I call their “ small hats . ”
Once they pop up like that , it ’s time to get a roll and the pruner and snip them off . I ’ll dry out them for a few week in the house before I bag them up to plant next fall . Since I ’ve mulched these layer , I do n’t entrust that their bantam seeds will make it until next year . Years ago , a viewer told me that my lack of winner with columbines seeding was the mulch . I ’m not a botanist , but I can tell you that my aquilegia tend to seed in blank space , not in the mulch , though now and then there ’s a surprise . This weekend , I ’ll begin collecting their seeds too , and cut off their quondam scapes and some of the spiderwort , which tend to gather escargot at the last of their annual Hz . I keep the spiderwort scapes as long as potential . Then I prune them and put them in an old bucket or pouch . Later , I gather the seeds from the bottom . But with spiderworts , I rely on a mountain of self - seeding , too .
With the warm days and humidity , the terrace liriope is doing its job . I came home one sidereal day to find two cats asleep in their outside “ couch . ” Here ’s Sam Jr. In the foreground is turks detonating machine on the terrace border ; in back are daylily . My success in gardening with deary is to figure out what they want and give it to them .
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