Sounds great! Perovskia should do well. I really like 'Little Spire'. Stays a bit shorter and does not get leggy. Great color. Attracts bees. Very drought tolerant, once established. Full sun is best.
Visions of Spring '08!
Please keep taking photos as you proceed. It will be fun to watch the progress.
Welcome Sunshine!!!
Harper
I forgot the phlox! Orange and deep pink on the sunny side.
i can't find summer dreams anywhere either - they were burpee select i think. i do find other cosmos called day dream that look suspiciously similar, though. grr.
Agway already has their spring seed displays up so I'll try another Agway and then a few other places.
it's in PF as daydream too. i just don't get it. from the comments, it must be the same thing.
I believe they are called "Daydream" is this it?
http://www.jungseed.com/dp.asp?c=38&P={07983632-87F5-4B25-8D88-AEF81A3E8166}
they are pretty!
yes - it must be the same - i just don't understand the whole names thing.
grr. just went and looked, and it must be the only seed packet on earth i didn't save.
Welcome, Sunshine - from me and the cats.
I was checking out the Song Sparrow website. They have a daylily for $125? http://www.songsparrow.com/2008new/plantdetails.cfm?ID=2837&type=HEM,&pagetype=plantdetails It's beautiful, but I was amazed at the price.
Don't be, ive seen daylilies go for over a thousand.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The people buying the expensive ones are buying bragging rights, that's all.
Anita,
Click on this link then scroll down and look on the right hand side of the page. It should say "Record Breaking Daylilies"
http://www.distinctly.on.ca/chs/
All four of them total $17,500. (plus shipping no doubt!).
It's crazy! More money than brain!
I might buy 'Larry's Obsession' for 25.00 bucks, tops, and the others for under 10 or not at any price. Foolishness. Patti
Yes it's all about status.
Snobism to me.
Bet not too many of them actually do the planting themselves!
Welcome Sunshine - glad to have you with us!! Eleanor
$125 for a daylily OMG. And for that price there better be more than one plant in a pot
It would be my luck it would winter kill lol. I thought $15 was bad for the the daylily I got
last summer called South Seas. It's a very pretty shade of coral and a repeat bloomer:)
There were 4 plants in a gallon container. Both of those daylilies are absolutley beautiful.
Those 2 daylilies just gave a reason to stay longer at my favorite nursey and to check
out new nurseries:)
Pirl, y'all might like this daylily story.
My uncle was a pediatrician in Louisville, and for his downtime, if he ever had any, he liked to garden. He and my mom had grown up having flower gardens, so he continued. After he retired, he concentrated on daylilies and became president of the Daylily Society there. Every year their club would have a daylily sale, with a big percentage of the income going to a charity. They would purchase expensive daylilies, they had their own club garden in which they planted and "guarded" their expensivie daylilies...and of course they had some that were inexpensive as well. After they had their big sale, you know how the little tubers sometimes get away from you and end up in a trash pile, well......on those occasions when i went with him to their daylily sale, I learned to pick up all those little "scraps" that were to be discarded.
I don't tell very many people this, but those little trashed tubers grew into some very nice daylilies in my garden., and the funny part of that is......they look amazingly like some of those $1,000 daylilies that I see in the books. Mine just don't have a name.
Edited because I have forgotten how to spell.
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It's just obscene! I do think I will need to add a few more to my garden. I have a spot up front that gets some strong late morning early afternoon sun that is too much for my impatiens. I want to give daylillies a shot. I have to give Oakes a perusal.
It's like the people who buy large koi (thousands of bucks) or large trees. They are putting on a show.
We cross posted, Victor. I agree with you.
One neighbor didn't like the new house that went up across the street from her and didn't want the new people to have the water view they would have had through the other property so she had a few huge evergreens installed = $40,000. and that was about 10 years ago.
(I think I'd opt for window coverings of some sort)
Oakes does give huge clumps!! I got 2 clumps as gifts last year and they were amazing!!!!!
Pixie: They are so eager to please and their plants never arrive looking like they need revival. I'll find a photo of a delivery from another company to show everyone.
This is so pathetic!
Yes that is! I've always ordered from Oakes. Fairweather always has nice ones too - potted. They have lots of exclusive ones from the breeder Apps, who was next door to them until he retired last year.
That was for $35.00. Thank heavens it was a gift certificate! I'd never do business with the company again.
People who have never ordered from Oakes would think those were a great deal. Once you get an order from Oakes though, none of the others will compare!
True. I've tried so many places and Oakes is in a class by itself.
Arlene, what was the company that sold the daylilies in your photo?
If I'm gonna buy a daylily for $1000, it had better make me breakfast in bed everyday, too. : )
Floral Acres.
I agree, Harper!
Gotta do more than that for me!
Thanks Arlene.
Okay, lunch and dinner too!
What more do you want, Victor, a foot rub?
I need a body massage tonight. I spent the whole day outside hauling a massive amount of brush and trees that where from the fall storm and from all the cutting I have been doing lately as part of the "Victor List" to a giant burn pile. We got an amazing amount done, but now I am unable to move at the moment. Body is not happy, but I am thrilled with Garden Vision 08 dancing about in my brain. The Neurons are working overtime. Patti