Monticello in Winter
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Greetings from Charlottesville, Virginia!
The Green Man recommends that clients invest heavily in what he calls a "grateful" plant: the daylily. Provide daylilies with a sunny location, and they will multiply prolifically and bloom their little heads off from May to December. Daylilies are not only grateful...they're also "bulletproof" when they're happy: perfect for tough sites in the sun, pest-resistant, and low-management.
www.smokeysdaylilygardens.com
Rebloomer 'Happy Returns" in PRIMARY YELLOW is grateful, bulletproof, and tough.
Load up at Smokey's Winter sale AFTER planning the daylily beds around your site on paper, and have staked out the areas. A few caveats: Most daylilies will bloom in July and early August. Cultivars bearing the name "Happy Returns" and their relatives will bloom ALL SEASON LONG. The point is that if you want color consistently all season in your landscape, bulk up on "Happy Returns," "My Sweetheart Returns," and other daylilies marked "rebloomer." Then, accent with short-season varieties.
Final caveats:
Do not mix varieties in the same bed in a scatter gun effect. Keep varieties in a bed to 3, and DO NOT INTERMIX the sections (drifts of 1 variety). For example, try placing "Happy Returns" up front, "Apricot Sparkles" to the side in a smaller drift, and one tall seasonal classic such as "Barbara Mitchell" in the back. Keep in simple. Watch your color palette like a hawk.
Prolific, tough, and delightful "Happy Returns" companion, "Apricot Sparkles"
Photo courtesy:
www.whiteflowerfarm.com/31011-product.html
Photo courtesy:
www.gilberthwild.com/
(A The Green Man favorite supplier!)
Never, ever plant the "Taco Bell" daylily "Stella d'Oro"...unless, of course, you desire your grounds take on a commercial, "Taco Bell/KFC" look. In general, avoid daylilies the color of Velveeta. You have thousands of optional color choices.
Hosta 'Guacamole"
Photo courtesy: www.easytogrowbulbs.com
"Happy Returns" will tolerate some shade. Use it there at the periphery where some sunlight penetrates, and accent with cinnamon fern, and WHITE and green hostas such as "Patriot" and/or "Guacamole."
Cinnamon fern 'Lady in Red'
www.gorgetopgardens.com/perennials/ferns-ladyinred.html
www.smokeysdaylilygardens.com
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