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Companion Plants for Daylily Beds Add Some Color in the Off Season

Easy to grow, you can hardly fail with them no matter where you are in the lower 48. Take Sun or partial shade. Shade does cause fewer blooms. The Deer will munch on them, but not when better stuff is available. Like almost any soil. Some nut trees do discourage them. Beautiful colors. Fairly long blooming period.

April to August Choose a combination of flowers that bloom early, middle and late season. Or choose repeat bloomers to draw out the blooming season.

Have a purchasing theme each year you collect. Ex.


Color pink, purple, orange, yellow, white Rebloomers only Only blooms 8 to 10 inches in size Only tiny blooms Doubles only Have a garden plan/drawing/design Daylilies under $10

Know how many you need Plant 12 to 18 apart Height /vary from front to back of bed Have a bed of on color or certain colors that blend Blend Bloom times Plan to divide every three years Multiply geometrically

Oakes

Daylilies has over 200 varieties under $10 Lily auction is another place Blue Ridge DayliliesDaylily Auction Smokeys Gardens

Marietta

Gardens

Daylilies Slightly Different Nursery-Paul Owen Local Crenshaw Farms Bay Minette, AL I65 exit 31

Dragons Eye

Fires of Figi

Dads Best White

Chicago Star

Buttered Popcorn

Mary Todd

Shilom Bye Lo Royal Palace Prince

Janice Brown

Prairie Wildfire

Ruby Spider

Shiloam David Kirchoff

Country Uncle Chorus Line

Pandoras Box

Indian Giver

Umbrella Parade

Exotic Echo

Emerald Eye

Elenore Marcotte Shaloam Ury Winfred

Color Size of flower Height of plant Bloom time Formal look Free form look

They find a way to garden with whatever space they have.

The

English household gardener never has a bed of one variety flower. They have the nature philosophy of gardening and nature hates a void. The gardens at Anne Hathaways cottage and are great examples.

We

can take cues from the large gardens We dont want that kind of work We want beauty on our own scale Lilies are my favorite flowers but they are not the only flowers that I like. If I could not mix others that I like into the garden, I would not be happy.

Choose a combination of spring, summer, and fall flowering perennials and shrubs to have colorful blooms all season. For example, I have daffodils and tulips in the front of my beds.

Choose perennials that thrive in full sun or bright shade. These are some of my favorites . I have more than a half dozen blended in and they are still blooming and happy here

Use

what you already know works here Dont use plants that will take over a bed Your garden stars can be the daylilies or they beautifully accent your existing garden

Echinacea/

Cone

Wonderful

Flower Perovskia Achillea Coreopsis Phlox Salvia Buddleia

daylily companions They will bring your garden alive with the flitting of butterflies and hummingbirds

Perovskia atriplicifoli a, commonly called Russian sage, is a woody-based perennial of the mint family which typically grows 2-4' Achillea millefolium The common name "yarrow tolerate poor soils

Achillea

millefolium, known commonly as yarrow Coreopsis Common names include calliopsis and tickseed,

Phlox

Phlox is a genus of 67 species of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae. Salvia the largest genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, with approximately 700900 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals

Buddleja davidii butterfly bush. They grow like weeds. I brought four from Illinois that were all volunteers in my yard. They are doing wonderfully.

Gardens

are open for viewing all over the country during the season for that locale. You can make a trip of visiting daylily gardens. There are great ones all over the South.

Define

your purpose! To extend your blooming

season What do you like growing already? What textures of leaves and flower do you like to mix into a bed? What has worked for you in the past? What colors do you want to add to your landscape? How tall and how much spread are you willing to allow in your companion plantings?

Crepe Myrtle in berm November 20, 2013

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