Some Roses Out, making room for daylilies in.

15 years ago

Since I had the guys here this morning for afew hours working on trimming my trees and some hedges, I decided to cheat and get a head start on my ideas for more daylilies. Had them dig up 19 roses. Some of the dug up roses were immediately replanted in a spot were I had some of those 19 dug up so that means 6 were actually transplanted to new (for them) spots and the rest were totally gone. The boss landscape guy is taking 6 I think home and planting them for his wife.

But I had decided that the two groupings of 6 each to make twelve roses on the left hand side of the front yard were going to be removed as I want to go with my original plan of doing that side of the yard in daylilies. For some reason I put those roses in there even in the past two years and I just have never been as pleased with it as I wanted to be. I decided the heck with it, I am just going to do it the way I wanted to all along.

Heres the left hand side of the front yard.

Moving in so you can see in back of those (annual) huge four o'clock hedges. 6 roses dig out of this top part here.

Looking right. The messed up soil section in back of the row of bulb lillies are were the other batch of 6 roses were dug out from.

Here is a view of the whole thing from the street. To see what I am doing on the other side see my older post that I added to about planning for a new daylily garden.

Stepping up closer you see the relocation garden.

Then the empty row, (left of relocation garden) future home to two rows of daylilies.

In front of that row of lillies is going two more rows of daylilies. The front most row will be of the Mary Jane Meadows intros I just bought the other day at the Lily Auction. Those four o'clocks will come out (annual anyway) and you can't tell but there is room there for two rows of daylilies were they are in front of the row of bulb lillies.

So all in all plans for 4 rows of new (do not yet have) daylilies. Then the end part there will get two or three moved clumps and I will see how I will do and what I will do with the leftover space. If I make those other rows long enought, there really will not be much or any leftover space.

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i_c_dillies
15 years ago
Rita,
You go girl!!!! 4 rows designated for anticipated purchases, lucky you. You are gonna have soooo much fun!

Lrae
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15 years ago
Lrae- I am glad to see you back posting.

I was thinking about addressing this section of front yard but it was not until after I had that stacked stone low wall put in early this spring that I could see how this front section would look. Then all summer, I have not been pleased with sections of it because as I had it planted there was not room for all the future daylilies I wanted to put in. So I decided to redo.

Much of this sudden move to stasrt making room is because those Daylilies from MJ Meadows will come in September (8 so far) and I want to put them out in front.

I also have been doing alot of thinking and planning on extending my bloom season to include August blooms. But I need a place to put any August bloomers before I could get any August bloomers. I plan on doing that back double row in late and extra late.
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I look at these pictures and it looks like no room. Now there is not a heck of a lot of room in that row but I measured and its 24 inches. Those shrubs at the top that are still there will move come fall, just that August was not the time to be moving them. So there really is enough room for the planned two rows.
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Found this old picture from this spring before those darn 4 O'Clocks got so big you could not see anything.

This row of roses in back of the lilies are the ones that are gone and I plan to make this a daylily area. Keeping the row of bulb lilies.

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Plans include putting daylilies both in front and behind the row of bulb lilies.

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