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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Flowers

Ah, but you can beat the critters!! Use chicken wire, cut in a good-sized
rectange, roll into a tube.  Close one end.  Pop the bulbs inside, close
the second end.  Plant in a trench.  Dig up when plants seem crowded.
Great for thwarting chipmunks, squirrels.  Almost as much fun as thwarting
deer! LOLOLOL!!!! Joann









> From: ECPep <ECPep@AOL.COM>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Flowers
> Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 12:23 PM
>
> In a message dated 98-03-01 08:10:22 EST, you write:
>
> <<
>  About daylilies - true, daylilies can take some shade, but they will
>  do much better in full sun.. it is a myth that they are shade lovers.
>  Must come from those old fulva plants around old or abandoned homes,
>  where they are still 'showing up'  even though the areas have been
>  overgrown with trees and undergrowth. >>
>
> There are species daylilies that are well adapted to shade.  Hemerocallis
> flava (now lilioasphodelus) blooms exuberantly in the sun and acceptably
in
> the shade. It is  daffodil yellow.  This species blooms in zone 4 in MAY.
 The
> flowers last more than a day and are very fragrant.   Where you cannot
keep
> tulips from the critters this is a good substitute.
> Easily purchased are also dumortierii and middendorffi both early spring
> bloomers.  A yellow flowered sort with many small flowers that produces
> blossoms in late summer is hemerocallis multiflora.  This is all assuming
some
> filtered sun at some part of the day not total permanent shade where the
list
> is much shorter.
>
> All of the species are more delicate in appearance and are very tough and
> hardy plants.  The species daylilies additionally hold good green foliage
all
> season unlike the hybrids which often look pretty awful after bloomin
(some
> before).
>
> Hemerocallis fulva, much maligned as a weed, has a purpose in large
gardens.
> It will crowd out weeds and hold banks.  Fulva will grow and prosper in
all
> kinds of shade.  There may be fewer flowers but healthy clumps of green
will
> be better than weak clumps of something else that is struggling.  I have
a
> huge patch of fulva on the side of pond where it is contained by the lawn
> mower.  Fulva buds not too near roads can be collected and eaten.  I have
not
> been much interested in weed eating but hem. fulva buds are worth the
trouble.
>
> On another line I was surprised to hear than hemerocallis fullva does not
grow
> in the west.  A Colorado writer stated he could not establish it in his
> garden.
>
> Of course it is not for the planned border.  The point is that many
plants
> have a purpose elsewhere.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> East Nassau, NY
> zone 4
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