Your planting/design strategy: clumps, repeating, singles?
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Comments (8)If you planted the 70's then the 100's later, they would ripen way too far apart. You'd have no corn for a long time. If you planted the 100's then the 70's later, they might ripen too close together. You'd have too much corn at once. Plant the 70 and 100 day varieties at the same time, and hope for the best. I doubt they will really ripen 30 days apart. Much less in my experience. It's quite difficult to predict ripening times based on the variety's days-to-ripen rating. Especially the first crops planted in cooler weather. These tend to ripen at the same time as the same variety planted two weeks later. Subsequent plantings can be done for a later crop. With any luck, you'll have ears ripening successively over a couple weeks....See MoreRepeating singles and semi-doubles
Comments (28)Mermaid' I adore this 5 petaled, yellow rose. Pretty foliage too. Gorgeous stamens. I've espaliered it to keep it within bounds 'cos it does get huge. Fragrant, to my nose anyhoo. 'Yellow Butterfly' from the genius Ralph Moore, is another single yellow rose I admire, it makes a pretty drift of yellow at the front of a border. 'R. moschata' It does not re-bloom but produces one continuous bloom cycle that lasts 3-4 months, as many months of bloom as a Hybrid Tea. The fragrance wafts quite far from the plant. I was glad to see Noella Nabonnand' listed, its one of my favorite red roses. 'Gloire des Rosomanes' which has a splendid spicy scent. Cherry red blooms with perky China influenced white streaks. 'Pax' strong Musk rose scent and a very frequent bloomer. Reve d'Or' an ethereal beauty, the name says it all ; Golden Dream, or Dream of Gold. 'Susan Louise' very large rose blossoms of cream and pink. It can grow to be a tree sized plant, blooms from February through December here, near San Francisco, California. 'Irish Fireflame' comes to mind, a bright rose. Nice thread, it brought names of many roses I've loved. Gosh, how I'd love a 'Sanguinea'. Lux...See MorePrivacy trees strategy for natural look...advice?
Comments (20)I agree...I have suggested some conflicting things in the thread, because our ideas are developing as we go. I don't think we want a big wall of green...and not something in a special bed. So we don't want something like our neighbor put in on the other side...this pic again: That looks too unnatural to us. But you are right that a line of evergreens is definitely not "natural" either. We wouldn't want GG's to grow together to form a single privacy screen. I was thinking if we planted them 8-10' apart, this wouldn't happen. (Our neighbor's are planted 3' apart, I believe.) Maybe the GG's would eventually touch at the bottom (after quite a bit of time?), but they wouldn't form one tall solid screen, right? Would 10-12' be a better idea?...See MoreFFOS--Repeats---Clumps
Comments (20)Kate, when you build those new beds, they will fill up quickly, I know--it will be "hemaholic heaven" when the blooms start. Sherry, whatever space is available is just fine for the daylilies so we can get those beatiful blooms. To all of you who like Jean Swann, there are four plants and with this many blooms, there is fragrance, too. Jean was ordered about ten years ago from a catalog--I believe the cost was $18 for three plants--I laugh now, for at that time I thought that was a lot of money for daylilies. The fourth plant came when Jean produced a proliferation, the only one we have ever seen. Celeste, I hope Katherine Caldwell does as well for you as it has here. I just wish our Stargate Portal was as pretty as yours. Our plant is really puny for some reason, but we will wait and hope it gets better as it gets older. Kay, I saw the picture of Jan Zoo that Julie Covington posted a few years ago and just had to get one. I actually had some trouble finding a source, but mine came from Bonnie Nichols of Oak Hill Daylilies. I also got Sunny Intervals and Katherine Caldwell from her, plus a number of other of our daylilies came from her....See Moregardenweed_z6a
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