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Re: 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?


North country could be this weekend; normally, I'll see one by mid October.


 How
about posting some pix of the phases?


anyone on Facebook? I posted some pictures there.



<<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:-)
and some just like to be cut back any way. I know the fungus (a "rust" IIRC) was huge concern among breeders and growers. Just pick up the plant and move them; they won't mind.... 
--
Cheryl Isaak
another day, another rink
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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