I have blooms on:
COOL DEAL, DANCE ON A MOONBEAM, COTTON CANDY, DREAMS OF HEROES AND MERRY MOFFIT. I have scapes on:
PIRATES PATCH, A RED SEEDLING, LITTLE BIT COUNTRY, LT WILD FLOWER, AWSOME BLOSSOM, And the Pennsylvania ROADSIDE DAYLILIES.
This is early for my daylilies to be [...]
a friend gave you a daylily and now you are wondering what to do with it. First decide if you are going to plant it in a pot or in your garden. If your garden, then pick either a spot in full sun or one in partial shade. The shade needs to be afternoon [...]
SADS’ April 19th meeting will be on floral design by Boyd Farar. Boyd is going to creating 8 – 10 small table top designs with silk flowers (no bugs and never needs watering!!!!) that we will then auction off for donations to the [...]
Last night I did a seminar for the Men’s Garden Club of San Antonio at the San Antonio Garden Center (next to the Botanical Gardens on Funston). What a great group of gardeners and fun people! I spoke on both daylilies and bearded iris, and just a tad on [...]
May Flower Show will be here. Will your daylilies be [...]
saw a swarm of fire ants stinging away. I immediately brushed them off, stripped off my [...]
daylily and iris seminars in both Poth and Gonzales Texas. On the way to Green Acres Nursery in Gonzales, there were two houses just down from the main Courthouse square that I stopped at to take some pictures [...]
delivered a load of bearded iris and daylilies up to the Texas Hill Country Garden Club garage and plant [...]
This is going to be a busy weekend. I have several seminars on both daylilies at iris at local nurseries. Saturday morning I will be The Garden Party Nursery in Poth, [...]
Daylilies like well-drained soil, with lots of organic matter if possible. They prefer soil, which is slightly acidic (6.0 – 7.0 ph). Dig a shallow hole wide enough for the roots to spread. We add a long-term fertilizer to the planting hole. Make a mound in the middle of the soil, placing the crown at the top. Make sure that the crown is slightly above the soil. Fill in over the [...]