Shade is described as getting less than 4 hours of direct sun lite per day, and avoiding the hot afternoon sun lite. More than that is considered partial shade, up to 8 hours. This group can be used as shade plants: Barrenwort, Bergenia, (wild flower) Bloodroot, Bunchberry, Ferns, Foamflower, Grass, Sedge, Helleborus, Hostas, Ivy English, (wild flower) Jack In The Pulpit, Lamium, Lily of the Valley, Liriope, Mayflower, Myrtle, Pachysandra, Pulmonaria, Shamrock Strawberry, (wild flower) Shooting Stars, Snow on the Mountain, Solomon's Seal, Spiderwort, Sweet Woodruff, (wild flower) Trillium, Virginia Bluebells and Wood Poppy Golden. This group are partial shade: Astilbe, Bear's Breech, Bleeding Heart, Brunnera, Chrysogonum, Cimicifuga, Coral Bells, Corydalis, Forget-me-not, Ginger, Grass Hakonechloa, Jacob's Ladder, Ligularia, (wild flower) Marsh Marigold, Meadow Rue, Meadowsweet, Merrybells, Monkshood, Primrose, Rodger's Flower, Toad Lily, Turtlehead and Viola. This is a partial list to start with. Al
I find daylillies do surprisingly well. We are not heavily wooded, but definitely in the shade category. As long as they get 2-3 hrs. of sun we have good blooms. Of course they do better the more sun they get.
Oh, let me sing the praises of the Daylilly! They do come back year after year, each year the clump gets bigger. Easy to divide, virtually pest-free, not picky about sun or soil, a million varieties, colors, sizes and shapes. I've only had one die on me and it was entirely my fault, not its (?). Did I mention inexpensive? Except for the newly introduced varieties, they can be had for a song. We have several local "farms" that grow them and you can go pick out the ones you like when they are in bloom. They will dig them for you-usually a great big clump that you can then take home and divide simply by shoving your spade down thru the middle of the clump. The sword-shaped foliage comes up early and doesn't die back after blooming, so you always(except winter) have the nice green "filler". Hummingbirds love the trumpet shaped flower. Some are scented and others are not, so I try to always get the scented; it gives me an excuse to get really close to them. Need something tall for the back of the garden? A lilly variety exists in the color you need. Short for the front? Again any color is available. The blooms don't last but 2-3 weeks, but again there are so many varieties and they all bloom at different times. If planned carefully, you can have lillies in bloom from June-Sept. Also some have only one bloom per scape and some have many, so you want to get the ones with multiple blooms per scape--there is a name for that I think and I'll look it up if you're interested. I love Daylilies. Are you sorry you asked?
You can buy many types of Daylillies here. Even the ones that once bloom rebloom for the rest of the summer. Nice thing about this place is touring the fields and picking out the ones you want, present the list to the owner who sends a crew to dig them for you. While the crew is digging them you can take a short trip to an ice cream shop and chose from hundreds of ice creams. http://www.stonecottagegardens.com/ David and Mary Moore (989) 426-2919 3740 W. Willford Rd. Gladwin, MI, 48624 You can enjoy a day touring the gardens to find the one(s) you want or you can buy from a catalog. Spell binder. Medow mix. Not sure of the name of this one. Or this one either. Al
Another with a name I can't remember off the top of my head. Many of these not remembered named ones is because they are on our list of to buys. Most are also rebloomers. They sell for about $10.00 US funds a clump. Some cost more but they are usally the new varitys. Another unnamed one. We have been buying about 18 plants a year. Last year we didn't visit the gardens as we were so buzy with our girls. Sunray. Al
Rosies Celabration. A nice day to tour STG's gardens. Fox Fire Mountian. Peach. Purple Yellow Throat. Spider Red. Al
I'm not jealous or envious!!! It's all a lie I tell you!!! Makes my 1/3 of an acre look soooooooooo small. :cry: :cry:
Valley Haze. Sun Catcher. Our Bee Garden where we have many Daylilies planted. I built this arbor. Princeton Paprika. Ahoya. Strutters Ball. Tejuana. Al
This is not a Daylily. It is either an Orential or Asiatic lily. I can tell you it is of the breed that smell so nice. I told Kare I wanted to plant a few more of them but she said since I tend to find a place to sit down wind and enjoy the smell I would never get any work done at bloom time. EXPRESSIONS. Flasher. Happy Returns. A rebloomer. Happy Returns. A Rebloomer. Appears I have ran out of Daylilies in this album. I could look in in some other albums if you wish to see more? Al
Of course it is their bussness and they must have acres and acres of daylilies. Kare said the named ones are ours since we had tags for them and could compair the real deal to the picture. The unnamed ones are ones we want to buy this spring so we will take the pictures and either we match them or they do. Al
