As today is Veteran's Day, and as a veteran myself, I guess it is a good day to begin plans for my theme bed - Military. I am going to set up the bed this fall, and try lasagna gardening in it. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. I have lots of leaves to put in it, problem is, I need the 'green' stuff to layer it, but my best friends own a dairy, I think hay will substitute for that. I am not sure how it will all go, or if it will be ready to plant next year, but that's OK. I am also not sure how soon I will get this off the ground, it may be a work in progress for several years.
Looking on the AHS database, there are a lot of ways I can go with this. But there are also a lot of daylilies that may be military related, but are not identified as such (named after someone, or a battle I am not familiar with, etc) I am not limiting myself to any particular war.
I already own Sergeant Major - this theme bed has been percolating in the back of my head for a while. I also see that there are several of Mick Morry's WWI themed ones on the auction - I am thinking hard about bidding on the Somme. Any other suggestions & thoughts? remember, I am in south central Wisconsin, labeled as zone 5, but at times I am not so sure of that!
I have no problem taking the time to search these out, as I said I expect this to be a long time work in progress. Thank you all for taking the time to help me with this,. and giving me ideas of what cultivars to seek out. ~Jan ("On the 11 hour, on the 11th hour, of the 11th month")
