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Feb 21, 2014 3:40 PM CST
Name: Tina
Where the desert meets the sea (Zone 9b)
Container Gardener Salvias Dog Lover Birds Enjoys or suffers hot summers Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Garden Ideas: Level 2
Edited to include today's update to the ideas/articles list:

Authors Wanted for Articles of Interest (and a GREAT way to earn acorns for raffle contest, ATP store items, and badges!):

*Small yard hobby hybridizer how-to and profile/s
*Different kinds of DL traits explained, and not usually mentioned: ex: velvety vs waxy petals
*How to get started, and manage, informal selling of seeds, seedlings or fans - locally or on auction sites
*How hybridizers make choices about their seedlings: a) what to keep and hybridise with; and b) what to register. Something nitty gritty; not just what traits a keeper should have but an example from seeding-to-registered, AND HOW is it popularized and marketed?
*How do daylily people in warmer climates plan for most of the year when their garden is populated by non-flowering daylilies.
*Heritage registered daylilies and extinction, are there sources for daylily Historial Gardens? Discussion about fashion, aesthetics, natural selection, recording, extinction, focused database source? Should there be a heritage database of what still exists.
*Unusual: variegated foliage, tall and small scapes and flowers, no flowers and unusual flower textures.
*When is a daylily clump too big and how to deal with it and what to do with the spare fans.
*Growing daylilies in pots.
*Growing the original species: where it all started.

Authors Nominated to edit their forum contributions for an article (no pressure, but would be awesome!)

*Daylily Diseases - Michele?
*Dormancy - Maurice?
*Polyploidy - Maurice or Spunky?
*Daylily anatomy and growth - Maurice?
*Fertilising - Michele?

Authors Volunteered:

1-How to Have Indoor Winter Blooming Daylilies- Profesora is authoring Thumbs up
2-DL seed starting & how to get seedling fans to blooming stage quickly - Beckygardener is authoring Thumbs up
3-Late Daylilies and how to add late and extra late bloomers to your garden. - Newyorkrita has authored Hurray!
4-How I turned a grassy steep slope into a daylily garden. - Newyorkrita has authored Hurray!
5-Instant front yard daylily bed by moving daylilies from the back yard. - Newyorkrita has authored Hurray!
6-How to Grow Daylilies for Beginners - Hemlady is authoring Thumbs up
7-Daylilies in heat in Australia - Gleni is authoring Thumbs up
8-Incorporating Daylilies with other plants in a garden - Seedfork has authored Hurray!
9-Cut Daylily Displays - chalyse has authored :P
10-Tools for daylily gardening - maybe chalyse editing contributions :}
11-Dividing daylilies to pot up and sell - nutsfordaylilies is authoring Thumbs up
12-Photographing daylilies - nutsfordaylilies is authoring Thumbs up
13-Spider daylilies - Dan Bachman may author Thumbs up
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of old; seek what those of old sought. — Basho

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