I love this thread. :) Well, it's August, so right now I pretty much hate everything in the garden. It all looks ratty this time of year. One exception: the "fall garden" is in full glory right now! If you don't have a dedicated fall garden, it is something I highly recommend! When everything else is spent and starting to get crispy, fall bloomers are just getting started. Mine has Early Amethyst Beautyberry, Limelight Hydrangea, a few tall purple Zinnias, Mexican Bush Sage, Autumn Joy and Matrona Sedum, Homestead Purple Verbena, Karley Rose Pennisetum, Fothergilla Major Mt. Airy...and this year I tried some Blackie Sweet Potato vine around the edges. It is SO NICE to have something to look at right now that doesn't look like death eating a cracker! Anyway, to the original question: I have decided I have way too many daylilies (only 25 or so, but still too many for me). I am so sick of pulling out dead foilage, and it started this year before they had even bloomed. I'm going to reduce them by about half in the fall, keeping only my very favorites. I've also discovered they are a bad thing to have at the front of a border for the dead foilage reason, so several will have to be moved.

Flowerfarmer, you're at least a month ahead of me! Some of the peonies look like they might bloom in about three weeks, but most of them will be later. A few of the foxgloves are just starting to form the first bits of what will be flower stalks. Everything else is several weeks out. Cold nights, short season, etc. If I had grown Asiatic lilies in the greenhouse, they might be close to ready now, but I didn't. Orientals and a Longiflorum-Oriental hybrid are my only greenhouse lilies. My greenhouse is small, so space is very precious and used mostly on the big-money flowers. The outdoors Asiatics and Asiatic-Longiflorum crosses are at least two weeks out, maybe three. Cheryl, my favorites so far are these Single Late (also called French or Scheepers) varieties: Maureen, Big Smile, and Queen of the Night, and Lily-flowereds White Triumphator and Mariette. Maureen is BIG. It starts ivory and turns white. Big Smile, yellow, is HUGE, even bigger than Maureen, and the biggest tulip I've ever seen (many customers say that also). I've also grown Single Lates Menton (good-sized, a lovely color, pink with tinges of apricot) and Kingsblood (red, average-sized), and they are very nice, especially the color of Menton when combined with Queen of the Night, but they don't have the Wow factor of Big Smile and Maureen. I'll grow them again, though. In the Lily-Flowered, White Triumphator starts sort of a greenish off-white and turns white. Mariette is a deep pink. I'll grow both of those again. There was a yellow Lily-Flowered I grew once and will grow again, but I've lost its name. I've grown Lily-Flowered Elegant Lady (or something like that) whose colors are muddy, just not terribly useful and not as good as they look in catalogs. I won't grow it again. ALL of the Single Lates I've grown had just-barely-cut-able stems the first year and VERY long stems the second year. Ditto the Lily-Flowereds, although they weren't as long as the Single Lates either year. Queen of the Night, a Single Late, is a rather small flower but has a long stem and is absolutely wonderful combined with practically anything else. With Menton it's a knockout. I don't recommend Bleu Aimable. I think AMG classified it as a Single Late. It's just too short and stays that way. On going outside and looking at the last few tulip blooms, I think Kingsblood might be a Lily-flowered. It's good no matter who it is, and has nice long stems. And I didn't mention Sorbet, a white with pink stripes or streaks. I honestly don't know whether it's a Single Late or a Lily-flowered. The flowers are quite small but they're on long stems and the colors are fantastic. I'll grow it again. As usual, I talk too much! Jeanne

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Aconitum, fall-flowering purple Tall phlox, hot pink (purplish) Lamium, purple (1) Agastache 'Honey Bee Blue' Sedum kamtchaticum Dicentra spectabilis, Bleeding Heart, pink Campanula persicifolia, white Campanula persicifolia, blue Monarda, Beebalm, red (hummingbird magnet) Monarda, Beebalm, dark pink (purplish) Stylophorum diphyllum, Wood poppy, yellow Echinacea purpurea, pink (butterflies love it) Echinacea purpurea, white (butterfly magnet) Canadian columbine OUT Digitalis, biennial, mixed colours, (open-pollinated) Hummingbird magnet Digitalis lutea, perennial (hummingbird magnet) Spiderwort, blue Centaurea montana Centaurea dealbata, pink Solomon's Seal Variegated Solomon's Seal Doronicum, Leopard's Bane OUT Rudbeckia, Gloriosa Daisy (big flowered one) Hosta 'Twist of Lime' Chrysanthemum, yellow Poet's narcissus Tiger lily, orange (true lily) Allium 'Purple Sensation' Chives Garlic chives, allium tuberosum Catnip (for your cat) NEW ADDITIONS: Anemone 'Pamina' Siberian iris 'White Swirl' Siberian iris 'Butter and Sugar' Siberian iris ' Silver Edge' Lychnis coronaria, Rose Campion Dianthus deltoides, some shade of red Heliopsis 'Loraine Sunshine' Bleeding Heart, white (1 trade, about 25 cm tall now) Tulip Campanula 'Blue Clips' Heuchera 'Lime Rickey', 1 tiny one Signet Hosta, maybe Earth Angel (can take a pic) Sommerwind rooted rose cuttings, OUT Signet Sweet William seedlings HERBS: Oregano Coriander seedlings Chervil NEW: Red cherry tomato 'Million Bells' or 'Sweet Million' Tomato 'Green Zebra' Lupine volunteers, probably pink 2 for Tulip, found two more Callirhoe involucrata, Poppy Mallow volunteers (1 year) Greylady, Signet I have more volunteers available...They are still small from this spring but seem to be growing fast. NEW May 24: Dianthus gratianopolitanus, Bath's Pink (1 trade) NEW May 30: Muscari, Grape hyacinth bulbs, purple (smallish but grow fast) Oxalis triangularis (1 trade for now, maybe more when I know how many I will use myself) Oxalis 'Iron Cross' (1 trade for now, maybe more...) Daylilies: I lifted 3 big clumps of Ice Cap, Purple Waters and Red Autumn last fall. They have been sitting on top of the ground without planting. I don't know which is which...well I think I know Red Autumn since the leaves are thinner but if you want any of those the safest bet is to take a piece of all of them. :) House plants: Grape Ivy, 3 rooted cuttings in a pot (2 available) Tropical hibiscus, yellow single, 2 yr old (1 available) OUT Signet Annuals (self seeded): Morning Glory, mixed colour Calendula, small yellow flower New: Jun 2 Creeping crosswort, phuopsis stylosa, (1 tiny piece available) OUT Self-seeded annuals: Amaranthus Malva sylvestris, purplish pink (1 more available) Tulip New Jun 6: Dahlia, pom pom style, red (1 available) Dahlia, white with dark pink tips (in an earlier pic) (2 available) OUT Dahlia, pink (in an earlier pics with bees and a buttefly) (1 available)OUT Dahlia, pom pom style, wine red with lighter colour in the back of the petals (1) Dahlia, short lemon yellow (1 available) - somebody was wanting short dahlias...I just don't remember who...OUT