Handsomely sculptured, flaring, golden trumpets, held high above fountaining clumps of coarse, narrow foliage… yes, daylilies are striking in any flower garden. But they have, also, two other virtues: their adaptability to all kinds of soil, climate and exposure and their ability to take care of themselves. Plant a daylily and it will live and flower year after year, needing only to be divided and given a little fertilizer. Here are some time tested daylily gardening tips.

PLACE IN THE LANDSCAPE
Day lilies, or hemerocallis (as they are known botanically), grow almost any place; in fact only very dense shade or very poorly drained soil deter them. But for the most effective display plant them in the bays of a shrub border: in informal masses by a pool or stream; in the herbaceous border, with stately delphinium, feathery astilbe or dainty babys-breath; or on a sunny, steep slope, where the roots of the vigorous clumps will hold the soil.

BUYING GUIDE

Throughout the United States there are specialists who have a good selection of day lily plants and seeds for sale. Their peak shipping seasons are spring and late summer, when the day lily is best planted.

Before you buy scan the pages of a specialist’s catalog and discover the great range of modern daylilies: in the flowers, from 2 inches to 8 inches across, patterned or in solid colors from palest yellow, to the vibrant blue and purple, to the deepest red, with petals smooth, crimped or curled: in length of bloom, some lasting but a day (though the plant is colorful for weeks, as one by one the buds open) and some staying open well into evening; in height, from 11/2 to 4 feet, in foliage, some being evergreen and some deciduous.

Then make your selection of plants or bulbs, choosing a combination that will provide color from early summer until fall. A few outstanding varieties are:

Early-blooming: BROCADE, COSETTE, PARTY GOWN
Mid-season: EVELYN CLAAR, HIGH NOON, PRIMA DONNA;
Late-blooming: BAGGETTE, SUSAN TREADWELL, AUGUST ORANGE.

PLANTING
Plant singly 2 feet apart, or group three of a kind, spacing them 1 foot apart. Prepare the soil deeply and add fertilizer. Place the plant, spreading out the fibrous roots, and cover the crown with I inch of soil. Water thoroughly.

LATER DAYLILY CARE
To make the clumps thrive rather than merely exist, water daylily gardens frequently and fertilize in spring and fall. If thrips should attack the flowers, kill them speedily. If flowering becomes sparse, divide, replant and fertilize the clumps.

FASCINATING SIDELIGHTS
Join in the fun and excitement of breeding daylilies. Perhaps a "good white" or a "good green," two long-awaited colors in day lilies, will be produced in your garden!

 

Caring For Day Lilies

 

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Hemerocallis

Daylily, a wonderful perennial available in many colors, establish as an anchor of your flower gardern border.

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Of the several hundred species of hawthorns native over the entire United States, one stands out prominently as an excellent ornamental tree. It is Crataegus phaenopyrum, the Washington Thorn which does well all across the country.

Seldom is this tree found growing more than 30 feet high. In fact, the largest tree on record, according to the American Forestry Association, is at Laurel, Maryland. It measures 2 feet, 9 inches, in trunk circumference and 25 feet in height and has a 23-foot branch span.

The single white flowers, about 1/2 inch in diameter but borne in many-flowered clusters, appear in mid-June. One of the last hawthorns to bloom, the Washington hawthorne flowers at a time when few other ornamental trees bloom.

Just as important as its flowers are the clusters of bright red fruits. The berries are about 1/4 inch in diameter, and begin to color brightly in early fall.

One of the first things one notices about this tree is its habit. Not definitely fastigiate (erect and columnar), it is nevertheless upright in habit of growth. And with a very small amount of trimming, it can quickly be made to appear fastigiate.

This is a big asset, for the tree is frequently used in highway planting… often in the narrow strip between divided highways, where it helps cut down the headline glare at night.

Like all hawthorns, it seems to withstand poor soil and drought, two reasons why it is so successful in city gardens. It is not superior to the tree-of-heaven or the sumacs in this respect, but it will withstand difficult growing conditions.

The autumn color of the foliage is an excellent glossy red to orange, another reason for considering this tree of year-round interest. The dense twiggy habit and the numerous inch-long thorns make it an excellent barrier plant, and it withstands clipping into hedge form very well indeed. Its general habit and ornamental qualities make it useful as a specimen tree also.

However, this excellent tree is not immune to the troubles common to most hawthorns.

Lacebug and red spider may attack the foliage in summer. Sprays for both these pests are not difficult to time properly.

Fire blight can trouble many thorns as well as apples, pears and cotoneaster’s. Controlling this disease is difficult but all dead or dying branches should be removed as soon as noticed and burned.

Borers, too, cause trouble occasionally, getting into the trunks and limbs.

And all hawthorns are alternate hosts for the cedar apple rust. Therefore, if the red cedar is prevalent within a radius of one mile from a proposed planting site, this Washington Thorn should be considered carefully before it is planted to any great extent.

 

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One of the most profound ones was this tree with it’s awesome berries. We, of course took pictures of it, so that we could identify it at home. Turns out… I think it’s a Washington Hawthorn Tree. Go figure… of course it would be.

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