Specialty Gardening: July 2009 in the garden, 1 by BLOSSOMBUDDY

BLOSSOMBUDDY wrote:
It is when the weeds are in control. Right now and this year we are pretty dang grassy from all the rain. But most of the other weeds are under control. We hand pull most of the noxious ones but some we spray too. As for the grass. well we can spray for it too. But it depends how wet we are since we pond up here and have to be careful when applying ANY chemicals if we apply them at all.

Usually we will take the big mower and just mow them towards late summer or any time after I have harvested seed. They will come back. Always do. We lose very few but it also depends on the hybrid. If I find a daylily that does not do good here I do not replace it and try to get a different one to take its place.

IDAS Magic is one that does realllly poor here. I have had one fan of it for a really long time and it just never seems to propergate herself. There are a few others like that and I have had some that just die out because they do not like their location, either too wet, to shady or too sunny or some lame thing.

This is posibly Willie Bill. I thought I lost it, but found I have a clump that might be it, but am not positive. It looks close. It could very well be a seedling from it or another too. If you do not get all the seed pods from them and the pods drop, you get a brand new hybrid not like the parent. Each seed is different. It could look close to the parent, but genetically it is not.

Stella De Oro gets a lot of pods. Right now she is very poddy and I will have to take some time to harvest them. I put them to another part of the garden for newbies!

If you propagate them by divisions, they are most likelie the same as the parent, but occassionally if we miss a seed pod, the seed will drop into the clum and something else comes! Stella is one that a lot of breeders use for propagation because she is a tremendous pod plant!

I dont have time or the space to polinate my own selections so many of my new plants are what is called open-pollinated and are pollinated by wind, rain, or bug. Oh and each seed in the pod can be different so if you plant all the seeds form one pod if the pod has 10 seeds, each seed is a new hybrid. Some can be similiar, but often they are very different! Its fun to see the newbies!