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just wanted to share my daylily photos

17 years ago

I haven't been posting much lately 'cause work has had me out of town and now I'm back at home for a while. My garden has done wonderful things for me over the winter. My daylilies, all given to me by a very generous freind, have exploded this year. As a matter of fact all of the plants that have been given to me have done better than anything that I have gone out and purchased. Here are today's beauties:

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lindakimy
17 years ago
How gorgeous! My red ones have started blooming, too. Would you mind telling about special fertilizers or treatment you give these to get such lovely blooms?
gurley157fs
Original Author
17 years ago
Oh the horrid things that I put on my plants!

First of all I might as well fess up and incure the rath of all by telling that I am a Jerry Baker fan. Yes, everyone thinks that he is a quack but my grandpa swore by his methods and had a fab garden.

I also spray with asprin water, 'juice' made from grass clippings, fish heads, rabbit poo etc.

I made a brew about a month back that turned even my stomach. I swore I would never do that again but my plants are doing so well that I may change my mind. Besides, the smell only lasts about a half hour......

That is unless I am spraying the whole lawn with fish poo
;-) My husband has forbidden me to do that anymore when he is at home.

I can't say that I have any real reason for doing it other than it is fun and it provides a lot of shock value for the neighbors.
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Another view showing how it looks from the front, but you can't really see the edge glittering from this angle. (the sparkling edge is a natural feature of some daylily cultivars)
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Just wanted to share another one of my blooms!!!
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Pretty awesome!!! I once picked up 4 orchids from Kroger for $5 each that had finished blooming and had gotten some black spots through their leaves. I nursed them back to health, using hydrogen peroxide, a sterile blade, and cinnamon. They started to flourish, one even made a baby offshoot, but then they all suddenly died. Nothing had changed, it was starting to be spring again, so if anything they should have gotten healthier - more humidity and light. But I'm not an orchid expert, I had never had them before, I decided to try it out since they were so cheap. It was an experience. I was proud of myself for bringing them back to life, but very hurt when they died. I'd even bought them orchid potting mix and fertilizer . . .
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Nice shelves! and congratulations on all the new growing space! Your have a beautiful epescia. I haven't grown an epescia in ages and now I'll want one. :) I'm like you and have plants everywhere. One of my best scores on craigslist was a stack of thick glass shelves that a woman wanted to get rid of. She told me she had used them to display dolls. I took them all and split them with my sisters and one of my BILs used some to build me this great 3-shelf plant stand:
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lindakimy
17 years ago
Rabbit poo juice. Hrm...I don't know if I could slow any of the bunnies around here down long enough to (er) "harvest".

Your flowers are lovely and I'm real glad you are havin' fun!
dirtysc8
17 years ago
Gorgeous!

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