Re: Interest in Late blooming daylilies
- Subject: Re: Interest in Late blooming daylilies
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 05:25:42 EDT
In a message dated 8/7/2002 9:49:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
sistermarya@juno.com writes:
> Paul,
>
> These I've had about 3 years, put in 2 dozen or so. How often do you
> divide yours?
>
>
To answer your question literally every second year-but I grow most of my
plants in one or two gallon pots.
To answer the real question you are asking - The plants will tell you when
they need to be divided, not all Daylilies are the same. I try to avoid
those that grow real fast and produce a lot of foliage and not so many
flowers-these need to be divided more often than those plants that grow
slower and produce more flowers.
As long as the clumps are still producing large fans that flower they are not
in need of division. But once the clumps start producing a lot of small fans
that do not flower its time for division. Some varieties it takes only five
years others ten or more years to become overly crowded. It also depends on
how well you grow your plants-in good soil plants do not need to be divided
so often-but in heavy soils more often.
When Dividing I try to keep only the large fans and throw away or plant out
the smaller fans some were else-they might take two years to grow large
enough to bloom. When buying new plants that I want to enjoy good flowering
the same year and next I avoids plants with more than 5 fans-since those
plants with lots of fans tend to be plants with smaller non blooming sized
fans. A common question I get is 'I bought a plant two years ago from so and
so, it was nice and healthy with lots of shoots in it and it has not
bloomed-what's wrong" The problem is to many small fans that are crowding
each other, in time one or two will grow large enough to flower. Its best to
take a plant like this and divide it up right away when getting it.
Stella takes a lot of crowding and still flowers well, I like to have the
ones in the ground divided every four years but have seen clumps 7 years old
still going strong with good flower production- even though the clumps looked
overly crowded.
Paul
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