Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #91 - February 2011, 0 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
Lin, I've had no luck with the osteospermums either in pots or in the ground. Do you have them in the shade or sun? Special potting mix?

And don't those nurseries charge a bundle for daylily starts, too! I've had sporadic luck with a some daylilies even this far south. They seem to like being on the north side of the house where they are in the shade all winter, so get a little more chilling until the sun comes back and hits them. Had a few bloom all the way from late March through July last year. Maybe if we keep having these cold winters they will continue to increase.

I can't offer divisions yet, as I'm still filling up my daughter's garden (my "summer" garden) in Salt Lake. They bought a brand- new house on a bare lot of baked clay, and we have shaped a perennial garden - started with a pickax to dig holes, and 22 loads of compost from the dump. But it still has some gaps that a daylily can always fill. When it's just too hot to work in my garden here, it's a relief to migrate there and be able to work outside comfortably for most of the day.

I think this one is "Lady Lucille"