evelyninthegarden said:Marilyn ~ How exciting! Then the long wait...
Meh.... I'm used to it. In most cases, I have to wait 2 years to get daylily seedlings to bloom. (If you have a favorable climate and really push it, you can get half of your seedlings to bloom in 1 year. I don't push it, because I don't multi-task well and at the time I should be starting daylily seeds, my head is in the mountains and getting ready to go hiking... and afterwards, I need recovery time, and now there is perpetually Thanksgiving and or Christmas travel, and I don't want to risk infant seedlings while being gone several days.)
For me, the real issue is not the wait... it's finding sunny space. (Well, also keeping the seedling area(s) looking good. DH complained this year about my 3 raised daylily seedling beds, even though I work hard to keep them looking good. I think he just doesn't like looking at the cedar boards, but I don't know what I can do about THAT... I don't really want to be constructing permanent stone structures there, particularly with the underlying redwood tree roots. (As it is, we are going to have to deconstruct the 3 beds and try another approach, one that will keep the redwood roots from invading. I need the flexibility to try Plan "C" if the upcoming Plan "B" doesn't work out.))
