Viewing post #299227 by Skiekitty

Steve812 said:Wow! Bill Maryott has some great daylilies. My problem is that I pretty much only like the ones that are either out of stock or over $50 apiece. And since I usually buy daylilies (much less fancy, mind you) for $1 or $2 per plant from Gilbert Wild when they are on sale, I need a bit of time to adjust to Bill's prices. I'll probably get there... just might take a season or two.

It's funny, Toni, I almost cannot grow agastache here. It almost never over-winters. And it grows very slowly. There's one Korean mint hyssop growing in the shade of a maple that is in its fourth year. It dies to the ground in winter and re-emerges to grow six feet tall each year. I have trouble with caryopteris, too (blue beard, I believe). There is a spot where my Yellow/Red/Orange bed blends into my Pink/Crimson bed that will be punctuated with a caryopteris, if I can get one to survive there. The last one I planted up-and-died last week.

I refuse to pay that much for a daylily. I won't pay that much for even a rose (paid too much for that Ruby Voodoo to not see a single bloom this year), let alone a daylily. I know that there's costs due to registration & stuff, but I'm too cheap & poor to pay that kind of $ out for a plant.

And I'm finding that, for me, caryopteris is a weed for me. Seriously. I've got them sprouting up EVERYWHERE! They won't die, they seed everywhere.. my very first one I put in my mini bed 4 years ago. 2 years ago I transplanted it into the back yard. It left me 4 babies in the minibed, which I need to pull up this fall. I've found at least 15 seedlings throughout the back yard. And these are all teeny little plants I got at Home Depot in the 2quart pots for $5.99.