Northeast Gardening: What's Blooming Today? #7, 1 by Noreaster

Noreaster wrote:
Donnie, no, I just planted mine last year, in mid August. I'm amazed at how big it is already...about 4 feet across. I didn't even realize it was a dwarf...guess it can't get too much bigger? I'm starting to stress out already about how to protect it over the winter- do you do anything for yours? After I bought it and planted it I looked it up and saw that it was only rated to zone six. But now that I see how beautiful the blooms are, I don't want to lose any and am willing to go to the effort of protecting it. I buried it in leaves last winter and several branches broke off under the weight of the leaves and snow, ice, etc. I was hoping to find a better method for this winter. So, no blooms on that side of it for this year...still, I got about 18 blooms, so I'm happy with that. Mine is also under tall pines, and gets very little sun. The color doesn't photograph too well, but it's really a gorgeous, deep color. I have my fingers crossed that your's bounces back. Water, water!

Pixie- I did notice the purple midribs on mine the other day after you mentioned it. It really is such a pretty daylily. I think that one actually did put up an extra scape for me this year, so I'm getting a lot of blooms.

This message was edited Jul 29, 2007 4:30 PM