I am growing my first daylilies that I was gifted at a Fall swap last Sept. I saw some buds showing yesterday, so I am anxious to see their blooms. Will make a note when they bloom so I'll know when to expect them next year.
I responded to an offer from Julia in NY, she needed to divide her IRIS and asked for shipping reimbursement only. I still have not rec'd them but she did tree-mail that she'd had a death in their family and she had to stop digging. She said she would let me know when they were shipped.
Today, I'm moving slow, think the heat got me yesterday. I wanted to get so much accomplished today. Water my new flowerbed again. I watered about 5 or 6 pm yesterday. I have Prairie Sun rudbeckias seedlings that need to be planted out, also some creeping phlox that I divided a few weeks ago. They look kind of shabby but they'll be okay come next Spring. I'm going to add them in front of the border of the new bed. Should be shocking pink in the spring! Some young couple gave me about 10 or 12 round brick stepping stones last year or year before and I shared some of them with my gardening friend. Mr. B. got heavy handed with the mulch last year and covered them up, so you know what I'm going to do..paint them bright yellow, that way they will be easy for he or I to spot. The garage flowerbed is way too deep,(5 ft,.) but it was laid out that way when we bought here in 2005, so I didn't change it. Too much work involved to do that and now I've got plenty of plants to fill it..so when the oriental poppies and some of the large plants go dormant, I'll try to figure out where my Daffs are planted and lay a stepping stone down..I think I'm going to aim for making a middle path somehow, half way across to make it easier for me to tend to the back border plants. Digging up the brick scalloped pavers is too much work and digging a new trench for them to set in..If I did away with them, I'd have to find a way to give them away. I know my gardening friend that I shared the other stepping stones will take them; she takes anything anybody gives her and makes a use for it. Very thrifty in her own way and very creative.
Have you ever moved any plants while they were in bloom? I took a chance and moved one of my rose campion 2 days ago, need to water that again today and I'm thinking of trying to move some snapdragons and transplant them into the new flowerbed, right behind the creeping phlox. They look like candy canes or peppermint candy. Maybe I can even take some cuttings and try to root them. Have some new rocket snapdragons that I wintersowed in 2010 or 2011 and they are beautiful but need to be move back further in the flowerbed because of their height. I'm moving some columbines into that new bed too, as they were planted under the eaves of the house so they didn't get much rainfall. I have some new seeds that I've never planted yet that I bought this spring.
Just found some dwarf larkspur seeds at T's flowers and things website. I've ordered from Teresa Daly before and that is where I will order these. I now have larkspurs but they get pretty tall so I need some shorter versions and I can sow the taller ones in back of other beds, not that I know how tall they can get.
Had a coneflower ready to bloom and it had 3 buds ready to open on top, but Bambi must have got hungry and ate them off. I thought I heard a bump on the side of the sunroom last night when I was watching tv. now I know why. It's going to be Liquid Fence evening. My rose bushes are beautiful, definately have to spray LF on them or they'll be history. I hadn't seen any deer for a while but obviously one came out for a midnight snack!
Need to get some work clothes on and get outside and work! Thanks for your comments.
