STOCK UP ON SEASONAL DAYLILIES AT AN EXCELLENT PRICE

Seasonal daylily 'Halls Pink'


Here's a terrific solution for landscape clients with sunny "problem areas" within the grounds: daylilies. Graceful, pest-resistant, and prolific, Hermerocallis functions as a groundcover on steep grades, erosion sites, and various other situations that constitute "tough areas" to landcsape.

These are seasonal sale daylilies that will put on a show in mid-summer.

A few caveats:

Avoid the "nacho cheese" daylily 'Stella D'Oro,' which has been woefully overplanted and used on commercial sites. Utilize pinks, primary yellows, peach tones. Make sure the colors work with your site's color palette.

Use the SAME cultivar on your problem site. Mixed daylilies in an enormous drift create aesthetic confusion.

If you are dealing with a large problem area such as an eroding hillside. Use THREE varieties in solid DRIFTS across the site. Do not mix cultivars within the drift, and do not use more than 3 varieties. Make sure you can see the visual contrast at a distance.

Plant daylilies in sunny locations.

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DEER-RESISTANT, PINK FLOWERING QUINCE FOR EARLY SPRING COLOR

Tough, hardy, deer-resistant flowering quince is one of The Green Man's most-recommended shrubs for a visually-stunning cascade of color in early Spring to dispell the gray of winter.

Check this inroduction available from White Flower Farm that's compact and dazzling:

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SPRING SHADE GARDEN BULBS FOR COLOR

Monticello in autumn
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Check the "Wonderful Woodland Special" at The Green Man's favorite purveyor of Spring bulbs, John Scheepers. These delicate bulbs add color and complement daffodil yellows in woodland transition areas...




Fall bulb planting is always special with something from John Scheepers!


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FALL 2011 DAYLILY BARGAINS FOR NEW DRIFTS

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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