Accessible Gardening: My garden's a tight space..., 0 by doss

doss wrote:
Dear Carrie,

I don't know what causes flowers to turn certain ways except when they are striving to follow the sun. Since your flowers are facing East I don't know what the problem is. Daylilies bloom in all directions unless they have only half day sun and they they tend to bloom in the direction of the sun. I have some near a north wall and they all want to bloom facing south. Not so good since you can't see them from the path. But DH's study windows have a beautiful view of them.

It's an interesting question. I wouldn't even know where to ask about it.

My hollyhocks have always had flowers on all sides of the stem. I don't grow them any more because of rust though.

When you dig your daylilies you will find root systems with bulblets on them. I don't think that those will grow new daylilies though. The only way that I know of to grow true-to-type daylilies are through division of the plant or proliferations which are little daylily plants that grow in the leaves. Seeds will become something entirely different but are fun to try sometimes. Do you like to grow things from seeds?

Thanks to the link for the foxgloves. The thread was beautiful. Perhaps she got the foxgloves at the nursery? I notice that they are properly staked. Love the yellow roses with them. By the way, if you want to create a hyperlink you need to put it on it's own line. Otherwise I have to cut and paste.

Beautiful Impatiens. I haven't grown them in awhile and I probably should. I haven't done fibrous begonias either. I'm a little short on the annual route because I just don't get to the garden center much any more.

I'll share a bunch of Margo Reed Indeed daylilies. :-)

Dorothie