Monticello in autumn
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Daylily 'Siloam Ethel Smith'
The Green Man says to check the daylily bargains at Smokey's Daylily Gardens for Fall 2011.
Select three areas around your site that seems neglected design-wise, are troublesome due to erosion or poor soil issues, or a space that's somewhat hidden and could be turned into a remarkable surprise for a strolling guest.
Delineate the outline of these new beds with a shovel. Make them curvilinear with smooth edges and somewhat lozenge shaped. Remove turf and weeds, till the soil, and these new beds will become your daylily "drifts" for Spring and beyond.
Remember that a successful drift contains one cultivar. Mixing daylilies lessens the impact of each one. Use one cultivar per drift in a bed, and triangulate the beds themselves asymmetically on the site. Locate in sun. (For large beds, use not one, not two, but three cultivars separated as drifts. Do not use more than three!)
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