I said in the OT thread that Doris had gifted me with a plethora of daylilies the other day -- a lot of good clumps, and noting less than a double fan. I have an oval (more or less) in the front center of my front yard. You can read about it here:
http://fiwit.blogs.com/fiwit/2...
Here's a picture of it shortly after I created it (like, the following spring)
I thought the red salvia around the border of it would give it a nice pop of color, and it did while the salvia was there. But it died.
So I planted spring bulbs around it,
but they're done blooming when spring's over, and then the border ring was bare for the rest of the summer.
So about the time I was posting here about it being Sue's fault that I'm looking at/addicted to daylilies,
I decided I would plant daylilies around the spring bulbs, and they could take over when the daffy/hyacinth/crocus show is over. According to my research, I have a lot of mids and early-mids in the batch Doris gave me, so that sounds like a good batch to put around the oval. The border is only on 3 sides, like a U instead of an 0.
I'm thinking Chicago Apache at the very front, in front of the redbud tree, and my two tallest ones will be on either end of the U. Then fill in with no particular order other than mixing bloom times and trying to keep shorter ones towards the front, taller ones towards the back, with the spiders interspersed to astound folks.
I'll post pics when I'm done, and when it blooms.
