Re: daylilies and daffodils
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- Subject: Re: daylilies and daffodils
- From: m* c*
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:40:17 -0500
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Blee811@aol.com wrote:
> << I believe that White Flower Farm was featuring daffodils with daylilies. I
> tried this combo with tulips and daylilies successfully. Use
> early-blooming tulips; the late ones are engulfed by the daylily foliage.
> Both like the dry soil and I believe both like the same type of fertilizer
> because the daylilies never looked better. >>
>
> ===>This is a classic interplanting for daffodils. It may be obvious, but
> I'll say it anyway: do not plant the daylilies directly over the daffodils
> (or any other bulbs for that matter). Eventually you'll want to dig up one
> or the other without disturbing the one. Plus daylilies can become
> impenetrable.
>
> Sprinkle some larkspur seed over the daffodil areas in the winter and you'll
> have larkspur blooming in early summer; they'll reseed too.
>
> Bill Lee
> Z6a Cincinnati
>
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Why not add a few of the orientel lilies to this mix i have thrown in casa blana
and Sreciosum rubrum and extended coler till mi october in zone 4 .
Mark
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