Hi Rita,
Good Luck with that. I don't think I can help you find more room although I would love to come and see everything you are getting. I love planning gardens. It sounds like you do something like me in keeping your order sheets. When I place an order-whether it be by email or an online store I print off the receipt or email or whatever and put it in a binder. When the order comes I put the actual copy they worked from in there too in case something didn't come or they made a substitution. If I buy any bulbs, daylilies or other plants somewhere in person I put that receipt in too. I have even started putting gardening books or other equipment I buy online in there. When I get something from the LA auction I print off the page and put it in as well. The numbers are still scary when you add them up but at least you know you have everything to plan from!
Debbie

Yes, I had a printed page in an actual file folder with daylies I bought. Plus I have an electronic folder in my in box of my Lily Auction Wins. I always buy too many. Just this year I didn't buy as many as other years.

The only reason I can do ANY of this is I took what was left of my veggie garden. After that is full, too bad, I really am out of room. So the veggies will now move to a very, very much smaller garden bed I had put in last year. I decided I didn't need to grow as many veggies.

If you figure out how to stretch the space, let me know. I don't think I have many coming, but have no idea where I'm going to to put them. I may actually have to bump out that last redone bed a little.

I have a NOID or two...we'll see. At least the Johnny Cash has a space ready for it. The first one died.
kay

I am actually very good at finding new space and stretching old. Finding new by limbing up trees to plant underneath and by putting in terraced beds to make gardenbeds out of places that never worked for planting before that. Also stretching my moving shrubs and such. But there is a limit to what even I can accompliish.

I realised that in order to make the paths wider I can get more space by moving the first of the dayliliy groupings over to the left to start the layout. In order to move it to the left, I have to move at least two rows of the Hibard intros that I put in fall of 2008. There are three rows of them at the end of an upstairs garden were all my Korth daylilies are and in what will now be the same enlarged bed that all the new stuff is going into.

So I moved 14 over that made a back row and didn't interfer with the new layout at all. Still have three more to move of the two that used to be three rows at the end. Then we will see once those last three move if then I can space out the new planned daylily groupings and have enough space for the needed access paths.

Oh how I wish I could do all that digging, moving things,like Rita and Kay seems to be always doing.I am not able to work all day digging and planting no more,at least not as much as you two are doing.I did manage to plant about 8 Clematis today,and I was really give out when I quit.The neighbor came across the street to tell me I need to slow down as I am working too hard in my yard..I told her it only looks that way,as I am not able to do what I use to do in a days time,and can't work at it very long at a time, now.I managed to get her to take 2 Clematis home with her to plant.I dont think she knows anything about gardening,as she don't have no flowers, just a few azaeleas around her home is all.She says the Clematis I gave her last year died.I told her just to plant it where it gets some sunshine and she has to water it some times and it will grow.

Jean

Well, I am feeling old and creaky today. So tired and sore from yesterday that I could not get going this morning. Finially getting to do some this afternoon. Trying to get that last batch of 4 that I know has to be moved so I can move over my sticks that I use as placements and measure to see if this is going to fix my spacing problems.

Ok, laid out the sticks and bricks as markers. Useing space gained by being able to move over to the left I tried again. I could have moved about 18 inched more to the left to start the daylily groupings but didn't want to as I can use the end there for other non daylily things. So I started the groupings were I want them to be. Then spaceing them out the four groupings of ten still did not give me wide enough paths in between for what I need. Still only around 28-30 inches.

So I thought on this as I did some other garden work and then went back and redid the groups in three batches of 14 instead of four batches of ten. Lost one grouping but the rest are larger. That gives me two of those acress paths between the three groups of 36 inches wide instead of three accress paths between four groups of 28-30 inches wide. This is much better and it is the setup I am going to stay with. Gives me room to plant 42 daylilies.

Now those of you that know me and are regulars on this forum are most likely amazed that I am putting in 36 inch paths. I love to crowd my daylilies and usually I have no accress and mostly no paths. I was lucky if I could reach the middle of my korth daylilies last year, no access.

I learned some and moved daylilies to allow a back path in there this year. As to the currant project, I have multiple uses for these paths. I have hardly changed that much. I would never waste 36 inches in my garden for nothing. I plan to plant things in those paths that bloom early and go under. Therefore by July when I need the paths to get to the blooming daylilies the spring bulbs have died down. I plan crocus, daffoldils and dutch iris in those paths. At least in part of them with lilies in the back.

When I get more organized I will take some pictures and then it might make more sense to everyone else. I already see it in my mind and know what I intend to make happen there. Instead of daylilies being spaced out in rows all wide and even, they are more clustered together, still evenly spaced but the room for accress is at the edges.

This is all part of my long range plan to get my mostly daylily beds to have more color even during non daylily season. Started on that theme last year when I added lots of lily bulbs and in fall with some daffodils that are all blooming now.

You sound like a busy lady. 2 weeks ago I moved 6 daylillies. I need
to move more that I bought from Shaw's Sunshine Garden's fall sale
last year. Looking forward to seeing everyone's blooms this year.
I only had a few pictures to post last year. This year should be a lot
more.

NY Rita..can we see pictures of your gardens? Even in process?

I post more pictures of my gardens than anyone on this forum, just ask us regulars. And as soon as daylily blooms start I just take pictures up the yazoo.

I haven't taken any pictures yet of this new garden as there is nothing there yet but I am working on it.

Here is a picture of the area I am working on. Mostly all bare in the middle. It will bring together this daylily garden I have at the end of this bed pictured here. That I have had for two years.

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It will tie in to the far end of the bed which already has a garden started pictured here. Those are my serviceberry shrubs in bloom. They make purple summer berries that the birds are nuts over. I find them bland compaired to blueberries.

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Moved four daylilies into the last front row grouping. That would be at the far back right in the picture. It gives me a start of the idea of what the daylily groupings will look like all planted. Will take pictures as it comes along but now its just mostly an idea in my mind and some sticks to mark spots.

I *KNEW* that veggie bed wouldn't last long! ;0)

Ah... if I could only find more room! Can't wait to see your gardens this spring. I have been super busy with school, but I have had about 5 extras seconds a day to keep looking at your posts here... so, I have become a lurker. :o)

Michelle, if you only knew what a fanatic I am about having my own home grown tomatoes each year, you would know it was very difficult to give up the space. But I thought about it and decided that I really did NOT need to keep growing enough tomatoes to feed the entire neighborhood.

One thing was that this is the LAST space I have. There will be no more daylily beds after this. Plus I already had daylilies at each end. It looks spectacular during bloom season but the tomatoes and cucumbers in the middle kinda ruined the view LOL !!!

So I decided the tower square garden I had done in my sideyard would be the perfect new home for my veggie garden. I plan to grow the tomatoes in the first tier and the cucumbers in the middle section. Sort of my own version of square foot gardening.

There is a glitch in the plan as tower square has bearded iris in it currently. It had dayliliers too but I already moved them this spring. I can't move the bearded iris now or I will loose the bloom. Not willing to do that. So I have no place to plant the tomatoes. Be prepared to see tomato plants growing in bags of compost on my driveway this summer guys. I HAVE to have my tomato plants.

Plant your tomatoes in a couple of good size pots. I have been doing this for years and we have plenty of tomatoes for eating fresh and even enough for freezing. I have some heavy duty tomatoe cages that fit into the pots to hold the plants. The pots are planted with a variety meant for pots they don't get as tall. My DH made a rectangle planter out of cedar along with supports made from plastic coated steel garden stakes for the Juliet grape tomatoes we love. We place these planters on our large patio. You can have your tomatoes and your garden at the same time just find a sunny spot for a pot or two. Forgot to mention the I picked up wooden plant holders with rollers under them so I can easily rotate the pots for good even growth. I am going to have my DH put rotating rollers under the grape tomatoe planter this year so we can move or turn it if needed.

I thought of doing some tomatoes in pots but I thought they really needed very large pots per plant. I don't want to get the kinds of tomatoes ment for containers and I don't always buy the cherry or grape tomoatoes. I will proably get at least one this year though as they make so many fruits. I like to go out in the garden and graze. That is just eat them as I pick right off the plant. I do that with my blueberries also. Those never make it into a bowl, I just go out and eat them each morning.

Believe it or not, I do have a plan for growing them, were they go and how to do it on my driveway.

Geezz, it should be extra warm in march every year. I have been gardening already since mid march and over a month already. I am so organized. I have my space for daylilies coming in spring laid out and I am ready to plant.

I just wrote to two of my spring shippers and told them they could ship anytime now. I am ready. Can't get over myself and my organization. Usually each spring I am just scambling to get things done. Of course, no daylily orders are here yet so I shouldn't brag quit yet about being up to date with my planting. And its too early to put in all the flats of annuals I buy and plant each spring so I don't even have them yet LOL!

I have been working on this area and it is slowly coming along. My Korth daylilies are all planted and I am waiting on my Culver and Mason intros coming this week to group into the middle of the three daylily groupings. Still deffinately that needs to go in there are the intros I am getting from Richard Norris.

Meantime it has a mix of intros from different hybridizders already planted, including lots of Emmerich intros. I got only one intro from Mike Derrow, LUNAR EMPIRE, and that is planted up there also. I have to figgure which of the Westbournes might go there also. It should look so good later this year.

I have to laugh. One of the neighbors, who hates it when I plant flowers, noticed I am redoing the veggie bed and planting daylilies. He does love all sorts of veggies and last year asked me why I don't grow more kinds. Like the free tomatoes and cucumbers weren't enough.