Comments on: My Favorite Perennial

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:16:10 +0000

@Kathie.W -
Ah you’re one of those fickle gardeners who fall in love with a pretty face.

By: Kathie.W

Kathie.W — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:46:31 +0000

I start out in the spring with the columbine flower in bloom as my favorite and as each perennial blooms they also will be make the number one favorite list.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:57:35 +0000

@Debbie Smith - I share your love for daylilies (spent this afternoon moving a bunch). I've been using Liquid Fence around them -seems to work so far but they have lots to eat elsewhere at the moment. Real deer fencing is in our future after all construction is done. I refuse to plant to feed them.

By: Debbie Smith

Debbie Smith — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:37:00 +0000

My favorite is my beloved Daylilies. They seem to be the deer’s
too!! I was looking today as I do every day, just looking and enjoying the sights and UUGG!!OMG the deer had taken bites out of the new daylilies in my bed I just fixed for them. I love animals ,but ,I had better not catch them red -handed or would that be red hoofed??The nearest rock would be zinging through the air I can assure you!! Anyway,I’m glad it getting spring in Ky!!

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:32:41 +0000

@Tina -

Know what you mean – my “favourite” perennial is normally the one that’s in bloom.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:55:07 +0000

It’s hard to pick a favorite. I call my parennails my baby’s so just like my two boys its really hard to call one my favorite. If I have to pick one I would say the Butterfly Bush. It flowered brillantly from late June & still is going strong in September it required little to no work a little dead heading now and then It attracts beautiful Butterflys I even saw a few humming birds around it a few times.

By: Linda B

Linda B — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:00:38 +0000

Doug it is so nice reading your articles. You are so just like the rest of us in your gardening tastes. I too love daylilies and the spider lily variety is a particularly good one. I have a ‘New Jersey’ Spider Lily that is an orange/gold and every plant of it I have has just kept on blooming all summer long. LB

By: Lorra

Lorra — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:12:06 +0000

Ohhhh kay, maybe my ‘possums, racoons, rabbits, and Earl (the squirrel) aren’t so bad after all.

Most of my daylilies were rescued from the dump site when a local public park was reducing their flowerbed sizes. So no tags, but a very nice variety nonetheless. I must look into the late blooming varieties.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:07:52 +0000

@Lorra -

Lorra – yup, they’ll bloom with a little shade but a lot of shade and no blooms means it’s time to move for sure. Possums are not something we have to deal with on our island – interesting what some folks have for pests. A good buddy has to deal with Elk. He says they’re not too bad unless it’s rutting season and then you watch out and don’t mess with them.

By: Lorra

Lorra — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:02:03 +0000

I love my daylilies! Do a daily walk around the house tweeking, deadheading and talking to them. So far, my luck with rebloomers has not been so great, thus I try to absorb all their beauty I can while they last.

The triple blooms seem to need a bit of help to open sometimes. I suppose a trait of that species. Plus there are three plants that do not like their shady location, so will move them shortly, along with the 50+-year-old lemon lily (Hemerocallis fulva) which did not bloom at all this year. Probably due to the opossum trampling it on the way under the deck.