Seedfork - All my plants are newly planted into all the different beds this year. Most were dug up and transplanted. And I added new seedlings to one of the full sun beds. I have no clue as to why the shade beds have produced many blooming daylilies and the full sun beds have not. The full sun bed in my front border has daylilies that are the exact same age as the ones in the shade beds. (2 years old for most of them.) They were all divided into single fans, too. Go figure!
They were all grown from (unknown parentage) seeds and planted wherever in no particular order. I was expecting the full sun plants to do better blooming. And I was expecting them ALL to have rust fungus. But the results have been rather surprising and perplexing. And now to be getting rebloomers! Wow! VERY unusual this year. But I do LIKE it!!!!
I'll take this odd year any time!
Elaine - I am sure my well water ph is pretty close to yours as I do see iron chlorosis in a few plant species when we don't get rain and all they get watered with is well water. I try to collect rain water in 5 gallon buckets I have in one area of roof run off. And it works most times, but I can go through 15-20 gallons of water pretty quickly with all the plants in my garden and the summer heat. What's a gardener to do? ... (sigh)
