Gardenpaw Do you have any pictures of your daylily? Just for referance as I cant find any on the web... I checked the frosty pinks and the heat has really gotten to them. Would you be interested in a fresh cutting from a strawberry cream? i have one going crazy that needs trimmed back badly but I havent done it yet.. Let me now as I would be happy to trade and im sure they would be great out front in my daylily bed Im creating. Donna

Some years back I had a large & expanding clump (6 ft long by 4 ft wide) of BES (pass me down plants - no cultivar name) that started getting black leaves. Plants had been in the same spot for 4-5 years. The black mold didn't seem to bother the blooms, wintering over, or the spreading tendancy of the BES, just very unsightly. After 3 or 4 years of this I finally had enough and dug everything out. This was a big job & I remember the plants laying around on the nearby grass as I dug & dug. The next year I had BES everywhere - in every bed, next to every shrub, grass, & tree, mixed into my Pink Turtlehead -but no mold/mildew/fungus anywhere! Prior to this I had never had a single seedling anywhere. Since then the BES have spread & grown. I pull them out where & whenever I find them, let them grow any place I like, & yank them in full bloom if the color seems to glaringly wrong. I have a full garden, mulch heavily and seldom have much seeding of anything, but I must have spread the BES seed into every nook and cranny. I will never be rid of them, not that I completely want to be, & I haven't actually tried hard to get rid of them, just control them somewhat. Once in awhile they even arrange themselves quite nicely all by themselves. So beware - if you dig them up, be careful, and don't do it on a windy day, with seed already set & raring to go .....everywhere. BES wasn't part of the plan. If you look hard you can still see the Turtleheads behind them. Picture is from 9/3/04 in the back yard the season after I removed ALL the BES (they were in the side yard). Since then I have removed the sedums behind the bench (too many bees) and let the BES have that space back as far as they want to go toward the tree, but have to shovel prune then to give the turtles and daylilies & little shrubs their space.

Good evening Thane, I am interested in the following on your list: Penstemon pygmaeus hirsutus Stachys monieri 'Hummelo' Lavender 'Grosso' Glossy Abelia 'Confetti' Blue Hosta I have many different named purple/lavender daylilies and I have Penstemon "margarita bop" can I divide this now? On my list I have 2 daylilies and both are purple/lavender. Check my list and let me know. Carla

3 more over the weekend... Ruellia has little rootlets now. Heavenly Blue MG and a Pink or White MG that I had forgotten about! *********** On the otherhand in my little 4-shelf greenhouse, with my indoor-sown plants that are being hardened-off, I had zipped the flaps shut on Saturday night when it was rather stormy out there. What were nice healthy green plants on Saturday were crispy dead and black looking on Sunday morning. I don't think it got cold enough overnight to have been because of frost or anything.... so it must be from too much heat build up in there on Sunday morning (yeah, I didn't get out there till around lunch time.....) I managed to revive a few things and left the flaps open ever since! Ang