Raggedyann, I'm feeling bonded with you already. I too love Irises and Hostas, and now am looking to get a few, just a few, daylilies. How can this happen? I only have a little space left, and am getting up there in years and cannot do as much as I used to, but I sure would love some daylilies. Where can I find out what they need as far as light and soil requirements, also what zones are they hardy in? I guess I need to do some research before I buy any. I have 2 Stella's that are HUGE and need dividing. Don't know what I'd do with the leftovers, and it kills me to throw away good plants. What do I do?

Hi diy. Sorry I didn't see your post, i didn't get a chance to get on yesterday. Anyway, they are from Hancock's - Paducah. I linked to the last one you liked below. If you type in "Sedgefield" it should bring you to the other. When I began, I typed in arts and crafts or craftsmen in their search box. It brought me to a few others, but I thought these had some of your colors in it. Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: arts and crafts fabrics

I concur with others who have noted that growing anything in pots on a rooftop in Los Angeles can be challenging. The relentless intensity of the sunshine is not something East Coasters are used to. Hollywood is a pretty warm area, too - not quite as hot as the Valley, but it is pretty far from the sea breezes and marine layer, and it is at the base of hills that trap a considerable amount of heat. Sunset Zone 24. And roofs can be the hottest and brightest spots of all. If she's in an apartment building with a flat roof, I'd check to make sure she's even allowed to have plant pots up there. I would hesitate to recommend she try to grow anything but succulents and cacti, if even those would survive. I lived in Hollywood for some years, and didn't have anywhere to garden but a bit of courtyard, so I had potted ponytail palms and Euphorbia trigona and things like that. A good garden center closest to her would probably be Anawalt Lumber, which is a very good local home improvement store with a good nursery section. They're usually pretty solid on advice. http://www.anawaltlumber.com/ I also used to be quite fond of Sunset Garden Center, in Silverlake. http://www.sunsetblvdnursery.com/about.html For cacti and succulents, she can drive out to a great specialty nursery, California Cactus Center in Pasadena. http://www.cactuscenter.com/ Rolling Greens in Culver City is a very nice spot for large containers at the high end of the market, but they are expensive and somewhat chi-chi - may not be what you're looking for. There is also a good cluster of Japanese-owned garden centers over on Sawtelle Blvd. in the West LA "Japantown" neighborhood. Good for big clay pots. I used to be able to find good big pots/containers at the Armstrong Garden Center on Wilshire in Santa Monica. Now I'm getting all sentimental about my former home...sniffle!

I wonder about this too...very poisonous plants and deer or rabbits. It is a known fact that some deer in the northeast US for example, are fully resistant to the poison in Kalmia and related rhododendrons. OTOH, most plant poisons do not act immediately (in spite of what you see in the movies or TV...I remember a particularly hilarious scene in Midsomer Murders involving Aconitums) and of course, if the animal does die, it's probably going to die off the woods somewhere and most people will never see it again. My aconitum was apparently browsed once, but only once, since I planted it in spring 2015. Believe me if a couple deer or rabbits ended up dead from that, I won't be losing any sleep over it. Maybe the reason it only happened once is that they learned their lesson.