Daylilies - question

Those daylilies spread like wildfire. Any piece of missed root seems to thrive and grow even when we're not welcoming them. I'm glad to hear the soil improved.

If you remove the trees I hope they'll remove the stumps, too, or planting becomes a bit more difficult - sometimes a lot more difficult.

Victor does have beautiful clematis (is clematises the right plural for clematis?) and they would look lovely on a bridge. Would you tack up clear netting so they can climb? I used the black bird mesh netting on a picket fence and it worked fine but the larger spacing of the clear netting seems easier to use, for me.

So many clematis and so little time.

Here are a few clematis growing on the picket fence I mentioned above.

I had an opportunity to come by this thread and fix an extra-long URL. Someone asked about Canadian daylily sources - here's the list from the Garden Watchdog, sorted according to rating: http://davesgarden.com/gwd/advanced.php?state=&country=CA&category=9&search_text=&submit=Search&sorter=rating

If you know of any others, please let us know. If you have ordered from any of these, be sure to share you experience to help others.

Thank you Terry for fixing it!!!

Thanks Terry! I knew you guys would respond quickly.

pirl, where do you get that clear netting?

I'm not sure, Victor, but we were looking for more mesh yesterday, online, and I think I saw it there. I'll go looking and post a link.

Sorry, couldn't find it. Since we have no Lowe's around here I'm sure it must have been either Home Depot or Agway.

I couldn't find it at Lowe's either. Try calling Agway.

It's clear netting, about 3 to 4" holes.

No Agway anywhere near me but I'll search online. Thanks.

pirl - beautiful clemantis and I would love to see a photo of some of your daylilies also. Where are some good places to buy both and what time of year? Is it getting too late. Should I just work on clearing the bank this year and planting next year? I know I'm going to be fighting those roots all season and probably for several years but I will just have to keep digging as they keep sprouting. As I'm digging now the ground is just filled with roots. My DH has offered to help but he wouldn't know a root if he saw one - poor man. ( He might think it was a snake and run for cover - he's deathly afraid of them and those daylilies were so thick they were full of them - I shouldn't pick on him)
There times he would be mowing the lawn and he would come in and tell me he was finished and the last 10 feet in front of the daylilies was left undone. It was because of a snake. I'm not found of the little critters when they sneek up on me either but I would go out with a broom or rake and chase them away. I'm rambling again!! :-))))

I think you'd be better off just clearing the ground and adding compost and deodorized manure for this year. Some of those roots are bound to be huge and you may require help.

I'd be useless around snakes: totally freaked out at the mere thought of them.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/528730/ Daylilies (our own) start in at #1643848.

pirl - your gardens are beautiful. What a lot of work and joy has gone into them. I wish I were your lucky neighbor to enjoy them all the time. Thanks for the advice on just getting the ground ready this year. That way I can get the landscape bridge in and get it level and hopefully get the majority of the roots out. What kind of compost do you suggest besides the manure? I don't make my own compost besides leaves. We did compost one year and it was so full of snakes it even freaked me out. Living by the Hudson River and the canal we do have plenty of the slithering critters. I saw that you had some daylilies growing below trees - will they grow in partial shade? My trees are very tall because they are forest trees as this was all a wooded area once and they really shade the yard.

Thank you, grammyphoeb. It's a combination of fun and work, more fun now that they're established gardens.

We make our own compost so my best advice would be to ask around and see who sells compost in your area. The town may offer free mulch (similar but not the same) and that would enrich the soil.

The daylilies that are under the rear line of 50 year old pines do get sun most of the day, except for a few brief respites when one central tree throws some shade on them during the hottest part of the day - ideal for the darker daylilies. If the limbs on your trees have been cleared to over 20' from the ground you should be able to have blooming daylilies, as opposed to putting them in deep shade. You'd have to study the site, in summer, to see how many hours of sun the area would get. There's no point in trying to grow them in dead shade.