It is Move it Monday, so a bit of re-moval was planned. Not Weeding Wednesday because the Forget-Me-Not are working plants in our gardens, but for sure, when they start to fade, it is time to remove, before they set a lot of seed.
BeforeAfter
That type of work goes pretty fast, a good thing in the heat we’ve been getting. I think that took about 10 minutes and then I took about 5 minutes more to pull some others in other areas and wrapped it up. I put away the bucket and gloves and grabbed a peach tea 🙂 Oh yeah, and took the after picture 😉
Far more exciting is that Marque Moon bloom has moved back into the garden. More accurately, Marque Moon self-seedling bloom.
In 2022 amid a very busy year, I harvested the seed that made this Marque Moon self-seed daylily. It has gone through a journey, and a move within our townhome gardens, but today it bloomed its first.
The return of Marque Moon bloom is a very nice development. Our legacy Marque Moon daylilies are fading and did not send up scapes this year, so no blooms. In addition, a new Marque Moon I planted in fall of 2024 did not come up the following spring and has not shown since then. I am going to try to move the old Marque Moon daylilies this fall, but I am not optimistic. They are amongst the Linden roots.
So, imagine the wonderful surprise I had this morning when I looked out and saw what looked like a white bloom. As soon as the thunderstorm abated, I just had to get a peek. There it was! A bloom from Marque Moon self-seed! And a first for our gardens as well. Marque Moon self-seed has never made it to bloom in our garden until now.
It usually takes a few blooms or even until the next year to get an idea of what we have in a new daylily. What I am noticing right away, besides the visual similarity, is that it is an Early Morning Opener. That feature is consistent with one of Marque Moon’s parents, Enchanted April. It will be interesting to see how it progresses.
And, on to seed, my test cross with Hush Little Baby (Pink Tirzah x Hush Little Baby) succeeded. There’s a lot of steps that need to go well between pod formation and bloom, but hopefully it will all work and we will be able to enjoy another new variety.
And then, on a fall planning note, I have my first “need to” move for one of my seedlings. Equal Opportunity has gotten pretty big, which is great, but now it is consistently getting hit by the sprinkler. It needs to be moved this fall.
And so, the seedling migration will begin. Significant thinking will be going on. What will look best where? Where do I want things longer term? And what do I want accessible for occassional crosses versus enjoying and just maintaining?
The dog days of summer are upon us, and the wildfires up north are making being outside suboptimal. Our time outside has been minimized. But I am optimizing the time and paying attention to something that has been on my mind for a while – how the Autumn Red daylilies seem to be rising up as my historic focus next year.
I have tried to put my thoughts about this into words but it has been long. It is not about the features and crossing to try to keep the curls on the sepals while keeping the trumpet shape without going spidery, and it is not about getting to a different color. It’s that I have been on a path with those daylilies for a few years, and, as much as I have put them into the Steady Eddy category, there is continuously more to them.
It is time to address the plan for them out back. It is probably going to be a bit more than I thought.
The daylilies out back are heading into the second half of the season, and the look is changing. Although the look includes quite a variety of colors, heights, and interest, admittedly, it is also a bit of a mix mash. That is the annual norm. I enjoy every bloom.
Out front where the Autumn Red daylilies have been blooming for over a week, things look nice and uniform. There is a long line of Autumn Red daylilies with occasional recessed Autumn Joy Sedum. And the Ninebarks. Soon the Autumn Red daylilies will swap focus from the one Pink Tirzah that is wrapping up at the front door. It has been in bloom for weeks, and is exceptionally prolific this year. Every year it keeps the entryway interesting after the Bluebells Clematis is done blooming. It is gorgeous and I will be sad when Pink Tirzah, once again, wraps up for the season.
And yet, as WOW as the Pink Tirzah is, the Autumn Red daylilies also look great out front. They are even more full this year than last. They are the perfect height, a great little pop of color, and they span a nice stretch to the front door and then following the path, they lead out to the back. They are wonderful. And I have crossed them, a lot. So far, they only like Pink Tirzah. They don’t care if they are pollen or pod parent. They just want to be paired up with Pink Tirzah. So far.
Autumn Red has been in my gardens for a long time – probably 15 years. I bought them in a bag at a big box store. I planted them at the back of one of my gardens, and they were there until 4-5 years ago when I saw they weren’t blooming very much anymore. That fall my husband helped me dig and divide them, and I planted them in a wave out front. 6 clumps, 2 areas. I was going for a red, white, and blue theme with the Bluebells Clematis and the Marque Moon daylilies. And of course, the Autumn Reds started thriving again. I have been delighted that they have done so well.
But that’s not the end of the Autumn Red history in our gardens.
I am fascinated with how daylilies naturalize and how they can be found at historic sites long after structures are gone. Last year I started digging deeper on the history of daylilies, specifically how long daylilies have been around the US, and in what form. I started to research more seriously on the daylilies I have and where I want to go with them at an intersection with history. I found that Autumn Red is a historic daylily. It was registered 85 years ago. It was my most senior historic daylily until I intentionally added Hyperion this year. But that is as far as I went on the topic for months. I let those efforts rest while I planted all my seedlings from all the daylily crosses I did last year, and while I intentionally spent time just enjoying the gardens.
Last week Autumn Red came up again in an unrelated conversation. Someone asked my opinion on a daylily, and how it might have gotten at a site. It was, it looked to me, a patch of naturalized Autumn Red daylilies.
Now, to be fully transparent, I had seen what looked like a large patch of naturalized daylily greens at that site before. I even briefly asked about it. It just wasn’t top of mind, though, so it slid way back in my “backlog”, and I didn’t pursue anything more about it.
Well, when things come back to the front like that, but are not a priority, sometimes I still let it sit in my mind until I can give it proper bandwidth. Sometimes it sits for a while. This time it was about a week. Until the Autumn Red in the front row of Sandy’s Corner started blooming. That clump also has a story.
There was a little daylily seedling I moved 3 years ago that I thought was one of the Purple D’Oro self-seed seedlings. Last year as it got the sun it needed it bloomed its first. Imagine my surprise when I realized it was an Autumn Red. (I am guessing it stayed in the ground when we dug and divided the Autumn Reds and put them out front.) This year, very happy in its new location, it is now much larger and starting to bloom. It has quite a lot of scapes and quite a lot of buds on each scape. It is right at the entrance to Sandy’s corner, at the start of the path. In fact, it is overarching the path. I planned to move it. Red is not even the right color for that front area lol. But the height, the size, the form, the little curls on the sepals. And, best of all, the sprinkler is not hitting it.
“Well”, I thought. “That Autumn Red might stay right there.” Might. For one year. As a worker. Crossing with Hyperion.
I bought three Hyperion daylilies this spring. They are historically even more senior to Autumn Red. I planned to cross them when Hyperion starts to bloom, hopefully next year. I would only use the Hyperion pollen next year, and only do a few crosses so I don’t overwork the Autumn Red. It would be great to have it so convenient, and out back.
And so, I guess that backlog idea of Autumn Red has now become front row.
I have done crosses with every one of my historic daylilies except Hush Little Baby, which will bloom its first in our garden soon. And I have done all the crosses I was interested in and even retried fails year over year. Maybe it really is time to start focusing on crosses with the seedlings of our historic daylilies, starting with the oldest ones.
I have yet to have self-seed germinate from Autumn Red. It has produced self-seed, but it did not germinate. Self-seed would be something I would like to try again.
There should also be a cross available next year. Hopefully.
The experts (the pollinators) have spoken. And they definitely have a “voice”. And bragging rights.
For example, Equal Opportunity (one of my own seedlings, but from South Seas self-seed) has three different looks from three different scapes this year. Last year was similar. The seedlings all come from the same year’s South Seas self-seed, yet the variety is amazing. And I didn’t do anything to get that variety, or the beauty per bloom. I just let the self-seed pods mature and then at harvest started my normal process.
On this pic the differences are very pronounced.
Doing a cross between Equal Opportunity and Hello Yellow was on my list this year.
Hello Yellow
Hello Yellow is one of my own seedlings as well. It is an extended bloom, absolutely gorgeous, tetraploid (so no it is not a Stella De Oro) and it has been very stingy with pollen and very stubborn with being a pod parent. But it crossed with Equal Opportunity and has a pod. And another same cross pending results.
This morning I got to thinking. I really like what the pollinators accomplish. And I have a garden full of seedlings from new (intentional) crosses I did last year. Full. And the crosses I wanted to do this year are already done. And I don’t want to tax those daylilies with too much drain going into a volume of pods I really don’t “need”. I can be a good collaborator with the pollinators. I can stop getting in their way. And I can be done doing crosses for this year. One (week of crosses) and done.
I made the decision, even though today was crazy good for options, that enough is definitely enough, and I’m done doing crosses for 2026. Now I can sit back, watch the pollinators, enjoy the very full garden, and relax. Just do maintenance. Until harvest time. Crazy good thought 😉
Today is an exceptional day for the daylily blooms.
Enjoy!
Carpenter’s ChoicePeach – I think it is Romantic RosePink TirzahAutumn RedPink China DollJust Plum HappyIn the front, my own intentional cross – Marque Moon x Pink China Doll that I am calling Pink Moon, at least for now 😉 Yes, it looks an awful lot like the Purple De Oro in the background. In reality it is taller, and the foliage is very different. And Purple D’Oro is a diploid. Another bloom of Pink Moon today. Yep, an even different look 😉
Today is Move It Monday in the townhome gardens. Now that it is daylily bloom season, I want full and easy access to the daylilies that I hope to use for crosses. Cloches are off of all the seedlings now and today it was moving day for the remaining two pots of seedlings – the ones that will eventually go to the historic cemetery. The pots are now on the patio, and I am considering when they should be planted at the historic cemetery.
My original plan with the seeds in those two pots was to direct sow them, but last year I noticed seedlings did not do well at the historic cemetery. I am thinking that maybe they will be ok to plant soon but there is no sprinkler there so anything that is planted needs to be watered by hand, daily, and call me lazy, but that is not my favorite. Not talking hose here, but rather, carrying gallon containers of water in the heat. So, the seedlings will stay on the patio, probably until fall planting.
I also want to pull more of the forget-me-nots in that area, but not too many. Besides liking their look, in moderation, I have noticed the bunnies and squirrels do not seem to like Forget-me-Nots. If I were to venture a guess, I would say it is because they have a habit of sticking to things. I don’t like that, and I can imagine they don’t either. So, some Forget-Me-Nots will stay, but a lot will be pulled.
Back to the historic cemetery topic, it has been a fun season so far to see things that were planted a few years ago start to shine. One of those is the Purple D’Oro divisions. Yesterday Purple D’Oro bloomed for the first time there. I had a feeling it would. So glad I got to see it!
Purple D’Oro bloomed for the first time ever in the garden at the historic cemetery.
So, with the daylilies in bloom in all the gardens, and opportunities for crosses beginning, I am reminding myself of my self-imposed limits. Here’s the story:
Last year I way overdid it with daylily crosses. I was doing a bucket list experience, and doing the crosses was incredibly fun. I was imagining wonderful gardens down the road – chockablock full of gorgeous daylilies in the years ahead. I was even toying with the idea of something beyond that, but I wasn’t decided on anything for sure. Without a serious plan, and having a wonderful time, I got myself ahead of my skis. I knew the process to cross the daylilies, and I had just enough years under my belt to get a lot of crosses successfully to pod and then to harvest. A lot. The crosses were very successful – in variety and volume. Pods were abundant, and the harvest went well into October. It bit into my planned fall activities and then kept on biting through to labelling and recordkeeping and proper storage and most of all planting (x 2 because I did not do direct sow). I learned my lessons. I have parameters this year.
I can do four new varieties of crosses that go to pod this year, but with the additional requirement that it has to have at least one parent that is one of my own seedlings. A little extra challenge.
I can do one repeat cross that was successful in the past.
I can do retries of previous fails. There are only a few this year because two of my legacy daylilies are either aging out or just taking a rest this year.
I can only do crosses until July 23 this year.
And that’s it.
Enter the first opportunity for a cross this year.
This is Carpenter’s Choice.
I like the colors. The raspberry is what I originally bought it for. And although it does kind of color morph as the day goes on, which is normal, it starts the day way more to red. That gave me pause yesterday as I considered a cross with the other available tetraploid – Equal Opportunity.
As I pondered the decision, I considered some additional attributes I like about Carpenter’s Choice:
I like the way the back petals (I should say sepals 😉 ) increasingly curl as the day goes on, similar to Autumn Red’s habit.
One of Carpenter’s Choice’s parents is lavender, which I would like to see in a cross with Equal Opportunity.
It did take me a bit, but I eventually decided yes to the Equal Opportunity x Carpenter’s Choice cross. Something about the lavender was the deciding factor. And:
I have capacity within the four new crosses.
Equal Opportunity is one of my own seedlings, a self-seed from South Seas.
I am definitely within the timeline.
So that was decision one. If I get a pod, it will be counted as #1 of 4 new crosses this year.
Here’s a couple additional pics of what’s going on in the gardens.
Pink Tirzah is gorgeous, and prolific again this year.Hello Yellow is gearing up for another bloom.
Well, I was going to plant just a few 6 cell seedling trays and put on the greenhouse covers but I got a tad ambitious today. 84 of the daylily seeds are now planted. Still a lot to go, but it’s a start.
Today’s planting work was exclusively with the Autumn Red crosses. And 3 Autumn Red self-seeds 😉 I will stop there until last frost has passed. The bulk of the daylily seeds always get planted then, and that is my favorite way to handle the seeds. Then they go directly into the seedling boxes outside and get way more sun 🙂
It definitely was a fun day. An accomplishment day. It was also a very confirming day. Every priority and decision I have been sharing regarding the daylilies was reinforced.
My best decision, hands down, was all the research and documentation work I tackled over the past year. It saved me from a lot of stress today. Throughout the day I found myself thinking that if I had not done all that work, I would have been sunk. It was just way too much to go on memory and pictures and a few journal notes like I used to. The practice of ongoing research and documentation will be a keeper, even though it is extra work. The payoff is huge.
Secondly, I absolutely confirmed today that both the scope and the volume of what I did for crosses last year was too far for my ongoing comfort level. A stretch year, ok. I was still toying at that point with a number of ideas I have now counted out. I am not going to start a daylily farm lol. I am not going to ship daylilies around. I am not going to grow volume and sell at farmers markets – egads! No! Just No! Not at all me. So today as I was planting dozens of seeds from the same daylily cross, those activities went even further to confirm my decisions are right-sized and me appropriate. I now have a pretty good idea of what I can do with crosses between what we have – what consistently makes seed, which daylilies play well together … Now I am looking to see what I can do with specific crosses at low volume and then working with the results of those crosses and also the self-seed. I like to putz, and putz I shall do going forward 😉
Third, after I researched more on historic daylilies, and the intersection of what I like for form and color, I am super comfortable with where I am with the historic idea at this point. If I can get some daylilies older than Hyperion, that would be great, but I’m still also good if I don’t.
So, indeed, putzing is a great word to describe what I envision going forward. That, and seeing if I can finally get a garden going up north. I think if anything will make it, the older daylilies should. The Autumn Red seeds are planted. If they come up, some will go up. Little by little.
I hope you have a great week. We have plans with one of the grands tomorrow, so no Tuesday post. My next post will probably be Friday 🙂
I have now had time to sit with the data on the 2025 daylily crosses. I am a bit shocked, but not totally. I harvested 422 seeds from our gardens here. 277 seeds are from diploids. That is not surprising, as I know what Pink Tirza does. There is a reason Pink Tirza is my diploid line. This year Pink Tirza was an incredible pod parent. Last year it was the opposite – Pink Tirzah was our top pollen producer in 2024. Naomi Ruth and Pink Tirzah don’t do fantastically well together, but Naomi Ruth was a top pollen producer this year, as well. Peach also typed out as a diploid (which did surprise me – a lot), and we have seeds from Peach. And with the Red daylilies in the mix and at an overwhelming quantity of 8 clumps, red boosted the diploid numbers.
Then there are 111 tetraploid seeds. Not surprisingly, South Seas took the prize for tetraploids. South Seas is my tetraploid line for a reason. South Seas is a powerhouse. And Coral Majority, one of her children (which I did not know when I purchased Coral Majority, but bonus!) continues to amaze. In fact, South Seas may have daylily grandbabies in the next few years in our garden due to Coral Majority. Fingers crossed. We have seed. It would be kind of cool. We shall see.
And then we have 34 self-seed from our gardens. Mostly – South Seas and Coral Majority, but a few Red and Just Plum Happy.
Not in the above numbers are 99 seeds harvested from Oakwood – 78 of which are Stella De Oro and look kind of iffy, but maybe they will do something for those gardens. I will try. There are 2 Red Volunteer seeds I harvested from a Red Volunteer I planted there last fall, and then 17 seeds from some new daylilies I don’t remember from last year, but they did very well this year.
So – 521 seeds. Oof! Yah. But I have my thinking cap on. I will figure it out. Lots of other people do this, at a much bigger scale. We shall be creative. There are 4 large success crosses. The rest can go in little seedling pots. Maybe direct sow the self-seed.
All the daylily pods are harvested and there are just a few still drying. With that, I am back in one of my happy places, cleaning data on the tracking spreadsheet, creating pivot tables, slicing and dicing the data. I have a pretty good idea of the top performers – pollen and pod, diploid and tetraploid, and also what I was able to replicate, at least to seed again, from previous years crosses. Soon the 2025 seeds will all go to storage until next March when I set them for stratification.
And it occurs to me, yes, I am definitely back in my happy place. It is full of some things I have loved for years, but it includes an expansion. It includes a new happy place I created last year when I embarked on the Mahala Felton historical research. And so my new “normal” thinking was at work when I began a new search a few days – wondering about daylily history, and specifically what type of daylilies might have been around during the historical times I have been researching. A little AI inquiry ensued, and the results were confirmed. Daylily ‘Apricot’ was the first recorded daylily hybrid, in 1893. And on it went as I was fully in daylily research mode. ‘Apricot’ was the first recorded hybrid 133 years ago, with parentage in still available ‘Flava’. Flava’s origin is listed with a registration date of 1762, and that is probably about as far back as I will get, as the registrar was none other than Carolus Linnaeus, the Father of Taxonomy.
So, fun fact, ‘Flava’ was probably grown in homesteads around this area when it was being settled, but ‘Flava’s child, ‘Apricot’, would not have been in Mahala Felton’s garden, as it was registered the year after she passed, by a school teacher, George Yeld, in England.
Next, my mind went to possibly owning a ‘Flava’ daylily. ‘Flava’ (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus) looks so sweet and is supposed to be lemon fragrant. Who wouldn’t like that? What would self-seed look like? Would it even go to seedling? Would seedlings ever bloom? And what could I do with that?
‘Apricot’, when researched, makes quite a family tree. I could get lost. I probably will at some point lol. History x Daylilies? Yeah. I will find myself hours later, emerging to find my tea is cold and I need to rest my eyes.
I see the best chance of getting a ‘Flava’ is spring. That means I have all fall and winter to research and dream. And anything I would do would be years out for results anyways. But it is a line I think would be worth at least investigating. It is a diploid, and although Pink Tirza is my diploid line, I could have a “historical line”. Right? Could I rein in to self-seed only and make room for that? It is an intriguing thought.
For now, I leave you with pictures of the last three seed pods, pulled a bit early probably, due to circumstances, but still hovering around 60 days maturity. They should be OK, and if not, they are duplicates of others that did fully mature.
”sdlg” is used in daylily data to signify unregistered or unlisted parentage (seedling crosses). This has been a non-issue for me in the past, but I am bumping up against it a little bit now in my research while planning crosses.
Do I now care?
No. I am a hobbyist. I am focusing on fun and maybe a dedication project from time to time. I don’t ever see a day when lack of daylily parentage information would cause me to not use it in a cross. In fact, for the Mahala project, both daylilies in that (hopefully successful) cross don’t list any parentage at all. It actually fits the project to a “T” – a lot of unknowns. And that is ok.
It is the end of the gardening season, the middle of the fall, time to enjoy the turning of seasons, and time for a little reflection.
Of course, top of mind, I poured myself into two garden endeavors this year – the daylily crosses and refining and filling up the garden at the historic cemetery. Of all the daylily crosses I did this year, a whim was the most successful – Pink Tirza X red daylily. 8 seed pods, 60 seeds! What I will do with 60 seedlings of just that cross, I have no idea. And that is just one cross of many this year. I ended up with well over a hundred viable looking seeds, “looking” being the key. The first three hurdles have been passed – successful cross, seed pod survived to maturity, and healthy looking seed. All the seeds are in storage now. But there is much more to go, and at least a few years to see what I got.
This is always a tough transition for me. Friends go south, gardens go to sleep, way more time indoors … but I could probably use a little rest.
And let’s not forget the cabin, yes the cabin. While I was crossing daylilies to make new ones, and doing year 2 at the historic cemetery, my husband was turning an Amish built shed into a cabin. What was just an idea 5 years ago – a brain child out of watching too many videos that looked way too easy, and a long time idea of “something up north” – is now a cabin. Not the Taj Mahal. Not a cabin on a lake – we are terra firma people – but nevertheless a cabin. Yes, crazy stuff. Still an outhouse. Still bears, and wolves, and coyotes, a porcupine, a bard owl, at least one bobcat, deer, bunnies, mice (sorry mice, saying buh-bye to you), red squirrels, grouse, lots of birds, even a nest on the shed porch this spring. But now also a cabin. Better be careful. Maybe a well is next. You never know the crazy stuff we might do.
And the garden at the historic cemetery! Wowsywowsywow! That changed me as a person! It renewed in me that people really do appreciate things. Not everybody – I’m talking to you dog owners lol. Cute as they are, that garden is not for Fourpeds! But by and large, the support has been INCREDIBLE!!! And, 100% transparent, not absolutely every harvested seed is in storage. I could not resist harvesting one pod from the Stellas at the historic cemetery. For a friend. Not for me. So far. There are still pods that are maturing. Actually, there are still buds that are blooming. Probably because I removed the pods as they formed. We do have a good crop of pollinators over there so I suspect it will an ongoing discipline to remove the pods as they form so we get season-long bloom.
So onwards! No choice, right? The fall candles are being burned, the cozy home stuff is coming out, the garden is going to sleep, the shrubs are being trimmed, the hummingbird feeders are down, soon the garden pretties will come in and be stored, and the seedling box, and eventually the lawn furniture and firepit. But the pictures are available and the fireplace has already been started up, and there are adventures ahead.
For tonight, I started putting button batteries in the tea lights, and I lit a woodsy candle and drank hot cocoa. Fall is definitely here.
All the daylilies are done blooming here, and we are going into the Semi-Finals for seed production. In first place by a long shot is Pink Tirza X red daylily with 8 healthy pods. Woohoo! Now I have to go back into my records to figure out that red daylily type. Or not. If the seeds pods are viable to seed, and the seeds are viable to seedling and they bloom (2-3 years out) they will still just be an “enjoy” scenario. A whole lotta “enjoy” scenario. Maybe a go to the historic cemetery “enjoy” scenario. If all of that happens, I will probably just give them a fun name for our use and conversations 😊 Just like Hello Yellow.
So Pink Tirza is the new Purple D’Oro here. And that is a good thing because the “deer” we were guessing was eating her pods turns out, we are pretty sure, to be due to a sprinkler haha! Either way, even if it was something else, good experience and knowledge gained this year. In addition to her coming in first place for bloom start, she blooms a LONG time, and is gorgeous. Her new working role is to be a pollen producer.
In second place, yep, you guessed it Coral Majority. It would have taken 1st place but I only crossed it a bit, with Cedar Waxwing, with excellent success. And Coral Majority is a self seeder too, although I expected that. The bees love that area and Coral Majority tends to have a lot of pollen and the pistil, or stigma, I guess, is often uncrossable. I seriously don’t know what to do with Coral Majority. It is a wild child. Of one of my faves, South Seas, no less. I hope its children are pretty, and well behaved lol. Because there will be A LOT of them if the pods are all viable. They are all still green and it will be a while that they still need to stay on the scape to mature the seeds. Hopefully the bunnies, squirrels and sprinklers let that happen. I have had pods come off too early in the past and tried to save them to seed but to no avail.
Marque Moon X South Seas was in 3rd place with two green pods and a third that was starting to dry but the bunnies and/or squirrels got those. The squirrels and bunnies have had a lot of fun with South Seas. And also with Naomi Ruth. I think I also over-taxed them. Pods were failing. Next year they get a rest. Only one Pink Tirza pod survived. “Sprinkler deer” got her pods lol. And Mystery Yellow Freebie has a drying pod but it looks not too viable. I will be surprised if it has seeds. And that’s it. Crazy good results from one diploid and one tetraploid this year. But we have a very long way to go. We shall see.
The transplants from two weekends ago are doing phenomenally.
No losses. I did make one mistake, I realized, and I put a daffodil bulb UNDER a Blue Mouse Ears division transplant. So I will have a daffo-mouse. Should be interesting, but fine. If the daffodil does bloom it will be done when the Blue Mouse Ears (hosta) starts to come up. Still … silly of me. Keep daffodils to the daylilies. Oh well. And last of all, sadly, I have a sedum and a hosta that I think need to come out. They just look like they are struggling. The hosta is quite old and never been divided. The sedum is a cutting. Stuff happens. I’d rather be safe. I can put Blue Mouse Ears divisions over there, and maybe a daylily.
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