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Re: [SG] changing daylily color

VERY GOOD SUGGESTION, CLYDE.
John Adney in Marion, Iowa (still waiting for rain)

-----Original Message-----
From: Clyde Crockett <CCREDUX@AOL.COM>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SG] changing daylily color


>In a message dated 98-08-03 09:08:17 EDT, you write:
>
><< Here is one more question,what about cross-pollenating? Could that
change
> the color? >>
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>Hi Cyan:
>If you crossed your H. fulva (?) with another species or a cultivar, you
would
>still have your H. fulva plants + some seeds that resulted from the cross.
>You were just kidding about using food coloring, weren't you? <G>
>
>Here is another suggestion: Leave the hems alone. Remove the phlox to
another
>location. In place of the phlox, plant some orange and yellow flowering
>perennials.
>Trollius, Geum, Papaver, Buddleja, "Celadine poppies", etc.
>For early bloom, some of the species hostas are a very nice orange.  There
are
>also some mini daylilies with true orange flowers.
>I think an orange and yellow border would be sensational.
>You could use Lysimachia nummularia aurea as a yellow ground cover. Also,
some
>of the sedums have orange or yellow blooms.
>You could edge the bed with some of the small, gold, sun-tolerant hostas.
>
>Clyde Crockett (Orange is my favorite color.) z5 Indy IN
>ccredux@aol.com
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