This was a full weekend of seminars (Fanick’s Nursery and Antique Rose Emporium) and rain (we had 1.7 inches over the two days!! now hopefully we will get some more). There were lots of questions from both groups and I will cover a few the basic ones that I heard at both groups this [...]
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Cannas prefer full sun; however they can take part shade (give them at least 4 –6 hours of morning sun). Plant the cannas no deeper than they were in the nursery container. If you have bare root cannas, plant 4 – 6 inches [...] Now this blog article isn’t supposed to give you all the ins and outs of hybridizing, but it will give you a start on what really is a fun aspect of gardening. You have seen all those $100.00+ new introductions from the hybridizers and you would like to try a few of your own, well here is how to get started. You have some blooms starting on your daylilies and you want to try hybridizing some new [...] Well, hopefully this Saturday (after the Pearl Brewery Farmer’s Market) we will get some needed rain, but I’m not betting on it quite yet. As many of you know we have been using drip tape for our daylilies in our production field. With some of our new beds, we are looking at something a little different. Yesterday, we set up one of the new daylily beds with a microemitter spray [...] 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 [...] our oak leaves have dropped their leaves now. So our annual chore of raking or blowing the leaves into big piles and then distibuting them around will [...] 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 [...] |
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