Newbie Gardener Alert!

I've just moved to the Pac NW (Silverdale) from Galveston, Tx.  Along
with getting married, and purchasing the first home, I've been stricken
with gardener's disease... <sigh> I'm addicted to working in my yard.  I
don't know squat about gardening, just taking it one plant at a time,
and learning (hopefully) from my mistakes.

I have two issues:

1.	I rescued several pots of mums from the Hospice Basket for
Plants at the local Safeway.  These were lovely lemon yellow mums, and
were so root bound it was pathetic.  I transplanted them to clay pots
(because my dad always said clay or nothing...), and want to know if
it's ok to fertilize them, do they need fertilizer, can they be
transplanted in my flowerbeds?  I think I'm zone 8.

2.	At the garden center on base, I found Dahlia tubers, 1.50 a pkg
for two tubers about 3 inches long.  They are Pom Pom & "Giant" Dahlias.
Any suggestions for planting these little darlings?  I bought them
simply because the pictures on the pkg were awesome!  I'd never seen a
dahlia before, so I just HAAAAD to add those in some spot of my garden.
What confuses me is: when it comes to these Dahlias, I read a ton of
contradictory information about planting, care, etc... <sigh> I'd sure
love some good sound advice!

3.	Also, my girlfriend and I sorta dug up some daylillies from a
condemmed city block in the next town...(They're going to burn the
houses... why burn perfectly good plants?)  I've now got a bed of full
grown plants measuring about six feet in length.  Nice and thick!  TONS
of buds about to open.  Do you fertilize these?  

Please, feel free to email me privately if you wish.  I'm new to the
list, and I'm sure you all have hashed these questions time and again.


Thanks,

Neens

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