Your All Things Plants weekly news: April 12, 2014

There were 12 new gardening ideas posted last week:

By dave April 12, 2014 The April 2014 Daylilies Not-A-Raffle-Raffle! This is it! The big one! One of the biggest raffles in the history of All Things Plants. We're giving away over $500 worth of prizes, so get your acorns out and buy your tickets! Good luck! (710 words - Read the full article) (9 comments)

By Newyorkrita April 12, 2014 Grow Your Cucumbers Vertically and Save Space. If you are short on space in your vegetable garden, as I am, then up is the way to go! (79 words - Read the full article) (one comment)

By fiwit April 11, 2014 Water Beds for Daylilies?!?!?! Until fall 2013, the only water beds I'd ever heard of were for humans. Then Daylily hybridizer Lee Pickles described the water beds he made for his daylilies, and I knew I had to try it for myself. (761 words - Read the full article) (28 comments)

By dave April 11, 2014 ATP Podcast #52: Talking Daylilies with Curt Hanson We are joined today by the prodigiously award-winning daylily hybridizer Curt Hanson, and will discuss everything hybridizing. (210 words - Read the full article) (2 comments)

By profesora April 10, 2014 Daylilies in My Living Room Plants in the house soothe my soul, caress the air, blend color and texture naturally, and rescue me from deep depression. Dark dreary days contribute to depression, but plants and blooms counteract those days. I know that it is not this simple, but it helps. (1,316 words - Read the full article) (6 comments)

By Hemlady April 9, 2014 A Beginner's Guide to Growing Daylilies As a veteran of this wonderful plant, I can offer this advice to beginner growers or those who know nothing at all about growing daylilies. (544 words - Read the full article) (16 comments)

By mcash70 April 9, 2014 Growing Daylilies in the High Country It can be very challenging to grow most plants at an elevation of some 3500 feet above sea level, along with long cold winters and short, dry, windy summers with very cool nights. (752 words - Read the full article) (13 comments)

By fiwit April 8, 2014 Confessions of a Hemeroholic In the Daylily Forum, we tease each other about being addicted to Daylilies. While I'm confident that other gardeners feel the same way about their favorite plants, no other plant has really impacted my gardening life as much as these beauties we used to call "Ditch Lilies." (1,059 words - Read the full article) (33 comments)

By beckygardener April 7, 2014 Growing Daylilies from Seed Growing hybrids from seeds is fun and an easy way to add more daylilies to your garden! (1,202 words - Read the full article) (8 comments)

By Seedfork April 7, 2014 Incorporating Daylilies with Other Plants In my short period of gardening I have come to love daylilies, but I like them mixed in with other plants. (574 words - Read the full article) (22 comments)

By Gleni April 6, 2014 Daylilies Upside Down There are advantages and disadvantages to growing daylilies in sub-tropical Australia. You miss out on the easy access North Americans have to some of the best hybridisers in the world. But it also works the other way: So many excellent cultivars did not make it to the Northern Hemisphere. (1,172 words - Read the full article) (14 comments)

By Newyorkrita April 6, 2014 Instant Daylily Garden by Moving Clumps I needed to move daylily clumps from an area in the backyard and was able to create an instant daylily garden in the front yard. (275 words - Read the full article) (9 comments)

The most popular images last week from our plant database: Photo of Rose (Rosa 'Lyda Rose') by HamiltonSquare: Photo of Grecian Windflower (Anemone blanda) by dirtdorphins: Photo of Red Sandalwood (Adenanthera pavonina) by bonitin: Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Laura's Choice') by tink3472: Photo of Iris (Iris 'Indian Chief') by Seedfork: Photo of Dutch Hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis 'Delft Blue') by wildflowers:

The most popular Multi-Plant Photos from last week: Multi-plant photo by pirl: Multi-plant photo by jerseyridgearts: Multi-plant photo by valleylynn: Multi-plant photo by pirl: Multi-plant photo by jerseyridgearts: Multi-plant photo by ge1836:

Noteworthy acorn tips given this week:

13 people gave for the idea "Daylilies Upside Down" by Gleni 10 people gave for the idea "Confessions of a Hemeroholic" by fiwit 10 people gave for the idea "Growing Daylilies in the High Country" by mcash70 10 people gave for the idea "Daylilies in My Living Room" by profesora 9 people gave for the idea "Growing Daylilies from Seed" by beckygardener 8 people gave for the idea "A Beginner's Guide to Growing Daylilies" by Hemlady 8 people gave for the idea "Water Beds for Daylilies?!?!?!" by fiwit 8 people gave for the idea "Incorporating Daylilies with Other Plants" by Seedfork 6 people gave for the idea "Instant Daylily Garden by Moving Clumps" by Newyorkrita 6 people gave for the idea "Daylily Floral Arrangements" by chalyse

The most active threads this week:

Subject	OP	Area	Replies
How about your favorite amoenas and reverse amoenas?	tveguy3	Irises forum	71
Heartbleed	ctcarol	Site Talk forum	44
Weeding pains	zuzu	All Things Gardening forum	31
Question about advertising	greene	Site Talk forum	29
What's up with the ^_^ ?	Danita	Site Talk forum	24
April Blooms	Jewell	Pacific Northwest Gardening forum	24
jacobs trumpet vine	texaskitty111	Ask a Question forum	24
Winter Loss	JWWC	Daylilies forum	24
I do not get it. LOL.	virginiarose	Water Beds for Daylilies?!?!?!	23

Some numbers from last week:

• 44 new members.
• 189 new threads.
• 4,167 new posts.
• 1,284 new images to the plant database.
• 46 new comments in the plant database.
• 19 new Multi-Plant photos.