New beds and daylilies

Hi, Cheryl!
 
Your new bed sounds wonderful, if back breaking. How much of   different 
plants will go in this year? When do you get your first hard frost in  NH? How 
about posting some pix of the phases?
 
<<The plan is to 
keep the daylilies that stay here to the small  side or more 
interesting shapes.>>
 
I ran into an interesting problem with my daylilies this summer: I have  
some (Happy Returns) flanking a path across a mini-berm. Each summer I have to 
 cut them back to permit easy walking (my fault...the path's too narrow). 
In  early August about 2/3's of them began to look ratty as if it were late 
October.  Then, bang, they were gone. I cut them back to the ground (and 
pitched their  remains in the trash) and they already have 5" leaves again from 
the  crowns. I did some online research and it was apparently a fungus and 
by cutting  their leaves back in the center of the pathway I had opened the  
plants up to invasion and infection. Guess I'll be re-doing a bed  
too...next year:-)
 
Joanie Anderson
35 mi. north of Chicago
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/27/2009 8:25:36 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
cherylisaak@comcast.net writes:

Not much  change here, garden-wise. Still love my daylilies and 
huechera. Haven't  found any new sedums to make me droll in the last 
year though

I'm  in the midst of expanding the bed on the east, mostly to move a 
sand  cherry, but I've changed the whole shape. Instead of a rough 
half circle,  it will be more squared off  and slightly bowed out in 
front. I've  got more shade there than I used to so I've added lots of 
hostas and am  eyeing some Tiarella and an astilbe. The sunny end will 
have more of the  daylilies and other full sun lovers. The plan is to 
keep the daylilies  that stay here to the small side or more 
interesting  shapes.


The main bed is being thinned, quite vigorously, with many  daylilies 
going to good homes. This is going to be a massive project. I  want to 
add some more shrubs to the back of the bed, re-work all the paths  
and move the iris bed to somewhere sunnier. I suspect this will be a  
multi  year project. I think over hundred plants have been divided or  
left completely and you can't really tell I've done anything  yet.

I'm enjoying my late season plants - the Canadian Burnet is just  
coming into bloom and my late season daylilies are showing  off.


Cheryl
-- 
Cheryl Isaak
another day, another  rink
growing, stitching and reading in  NH

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