Winter Losses...

Well, I guess here is a good place to cry about my winter losses.  I had some new acquisitions, transplants  and seedlings in pots from last fall.  This past winter, we had the longest, coldest stretch in Texas history since, well, forever.  This spring, when the weather warmed up, and the daylilies started poking up again, I was really bummed to find quite a few didn't make it through.  Here is the list:


Beachin' Babe
Beauty Of His Grace
Born To Run
Blue Eyed Angel
Cerulean Warbler
TET Crystal Blue Persuasion
Heavenly Mansions
Mississippi Blues
Moments Rich In Blessing
Moonlight Sail
Plum Eyed Delight
Precious Candy
Purple Pajamas
Shores Of Time
Standing On The Promise
West Texas Windmill

All of them had just simply turned to mush.  It was strange, but there were still some solid storage roots all the way at the bottom of the pot, but the rest of the root system leading up to them, including the crowns were just spongy, mushy, bad smelling (don't you HATE that smell??), muck.

Ah, well... I planted some new seedlings, and I will try to replace a few of these since I got them for hybridizing.

Now off to study a bit for my Calculus test later today!!  Ack, can you see my diversions??  LOL.

Updating My Flower Photos

Well, over the last week I have been updating my photos of all my flowers for my "My Daylilies" page. It is nice to finally have some static pages here on blogger. That way you guys can always see all my flowers anytime you want! And let's not kid ourselves... so **I** can see them anytime I want... which when I am doing Chemistry or Calculus homework, is often! Ack, Math is brutal... but I digress into college ramblings. This page is about daylilies!!

I hope to keep my page up to date with all the new seedlings set to bloom this year. I can hardly wait to see all those new faces, and to know how well they branch, open and perform over all. Since many of my poor seedling babies in 2008 had to stay in pots, they did not bloom in 2009... except for a determined few. I don't think I fertilized them nearly enough... and it must have been 150 degrees plus on the hot cement during our Texas summer. I could nearly hear them sighing when I finally put them in the ground last year.

I have joined the AHS email robin, and it is certainly nice to know that I am not the only insanely addicted daylily person! I keep asking myself... "where am I going to put 120 new seedlings??" There is absolutely NO BED SPACE anywhere in my yard. I know all of the 2008, and 2009 babies won't *ALL* be keepers, but I have a feeling a lot of them will want to hang around for evaluation. Those seedlings only got ground space due to the fact that I ripped out an entire bed of Asian Jasmine last year... whew... The BF thinks I am absolutely nuts, but he is such a good sport! He let me rip it all out and even rubbed my achin' back when I was done. How good it that! So, now I am back to no bed space. I keep thinking... "we don't need all that grass, do we?" But then the dogs give me that look, like "where would we pee?" LOL. Guess I gotta keep some of it.

Well, I guess that is my ramble for the night... back to the books!

Happy Growing.