Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Irises About to Bloom!
Looks like tomorrow will be the day! I wish I knew the name of the cultivar. It's one of the front garden that did not get the full treatment. They didn't get hit by the borers. Nothing else is as close to blooming and the it looks like it is going to be pretty spectacular.
I am counting on someone to recognize this one.
Other cultivars in this garden are doing very well.
Three new rhizomes that are showing scape development are exciting. Black 2011 introductions, Frontline and Blushing are both going to bloom. Frisky Frolic (Black, 2008) is an IB that came via David Cupps looks like it will bloom as well!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
New Daylily Planting
The latest arrival for planting was a from Smokey Daylily Farms in Indiana. They primarily seem to be a landscape supply house. To fill a garden with lots of daylilies at a reasonable price it seems a good option. I was pleased with the look of most of what I received. Where you see "(5)" in captions below I took advantage of a sale offering 5 fans of those varieties. One cultivar, "Naranja," was missing from the order.
Today it is raining, so I am glad I got these into the ground yesterday. Here they are:
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| Little Zinger (Lankart, '79 16x2.66" EM) Fischer Award, 1986 |
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| Siloam Mama (Henry-P., '82 24x5.75" EM) |
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| Spider Miracle (Henricks-W., '86 8.5" M) |
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| Daring Deception (Salter, '94 25x5" EM) |
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| Ed Murray (Grovatt, 1971, 30x4" M) Stout Award '81, Lennington Award '83 |
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| Highland Lord (Munson-R.W., '83 22x5" MLa) Munson Award 1983 |
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| Prester John (5) (Allgood, '71 26x5" EM) Munson Award 1976 |
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| Siloam Red Toy (5) (Henry-P., '75 20x2.75 EM) Fischer Award 1986 |
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| Condilla (Grooms, '77 20x4.5" EM) Lennington Award 1991, Munson Award 1984 |
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| Kindly Light (5) (Bechtold, '50 29" M) Olson Award 1989 |
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| Siloam David Kirchoff (5) (Henry-P., '86 16x3.5 EM) Stevens Award 1995 |
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| Open Hearth (5) (Lambert, '76 26x9" M) |
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| Red Mittens (5) (Meinemann-V, '66 24x2.5" MLa) Fischer Award 1970 |
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| Red Ribbons (LenningtonG., '64 42x8" M) Olson Award 1992 |
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Out, Out, Damned Spot
Daconil (chlorothalonil) is loaded and ready for application 2 in a week or so. The cold, the wet, the weird spring seems to have been a perfect brewing pot for leaf spot. I have been cutting, and spraying to attack the problem. As advised, I added a drop of dish detergent to promote adherence to the leaf.
It first the wilted leaves seemed to have been a result of several hard frosts over the last two weeks. Closer investigation revealed a bigger problem.
A few of my tall bearded iris including Vision in Pink are showing scape development. Some of them already appear stunted.
Maybe 2013 will be impressive. At least the tulips were great this year.
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| Vision in Pink is developing a scape. |
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