After the rains come hot steamy days but daylilies don’t care
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I don't want to even SEE that water bill
Comments (6)I've had to water this year a fraction of what I've had to water the two summers previous to it. We've not had lots of rain but just enough that I've only had to supplement a few times. If I would stop adding beds and borders I might have gotten away with just watering once ( except container plants of course). Had to get the new plants going. I actually have green grass ( what little I have) this summer and have not watered it at all. Refuse to waste water on grass--it went brown in an area once this summer but bounced back after the next decent rain. I have one section of grass that looked terrible the past few summers, surrounded by a lush garden was this ugly crispy fried grass. No more, I put in a lovely new bed there with plants that don't need alot of fuss and said goodbye to the cripsy fried....See MoreBack to work after the rain
Comments (12)MSN weather is saying 40% rain for tomorrow. We don't really need it but the transplanted daylilies do like it. I am amazed at your cardboard trick. Here, I don't really need it. We got that drenching rain on Friday here and on Sunday I was back to planting. Soil here seems to have good drainage while still retaining plenty of moisture. Right about now if I had lots and lots of daylilies still coming I really would go bonkers. Can't believe I am actually, really, really looking forward to putting out all that straw mulch I bought last week because when I am seriously into doing the mulching it means that all the other garden work for the year, like the daylily moving project, will be done, done, done. Right now I feel like it will never get done even though rationally I know thats not true and that I am making progress. The first time I planted that plateau back in 2007, it took me all summer. Now I need to redo it in afew weeks. Its slow going because its not only on the plateau that the daylilies are being moved around and its not just daylilies getting worked on. Don't overdo it now that your over the flu. Silly advice to give you, I figgure as I am sure you'll be out there planting like crazy....See MoreHummingbirds come to look but don't feed
Comments (40)This is a very old thread, but I'll comment because I'm trying to figure out why hummingbirds prefer old nectar over new. I suspect the OP's fresh good was competing with someone else's older food nearby, and the hummers prefered the older food. I have identical feeders, and my Anna's will ignore the freshly filled one in favor of the older one until the old one is empty, then they'll do the same when I refill it- ignoring it until the older one is dry. The behavior is clear and obvious, and seems to be something they can smell. I suspect they are attracted to the odor of a tiny bit of alcohol in the older food, but maybe something else. They fly up, hover a second, and go to the oldest one. I switch the feeders around and try all sorts of tricks, but they know which has older food, and that is definitely their preference. I'm in the cool PNW, and my feeders are used up in a week, so it won't be much alcohol. Behavior might be reversed if the nectar ever got very old. I might test that this summer....See MoreIris don't bloom or bulbs never come up
Comments (8)marcia marcia marcia! first of you must learn that bearded iris are NOT BULBS! call them rhizomes, so you can get the proper help! there are iris bulbs, but they are DUTCH. ok that was your gardening lesson for the day! i will get your a box of RHIZOMES out this week. nothing eats rhizomes above the ground, we are blessed with subterrian monsters instead... you will see earth piles and you will hear them eating your rhizomes like apples and you will see them get yanked under to china during a free for all gopher buffet! they are relentless in early spring and quiet this time of year, i assume hibernating like a bear after eating 100s of my iris......See MoreMaryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
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