I love to have a beautiful yard with all kinds of different types of flowers and day lilies is one of them.
Day lilies grows in zones 3-10 and their plant type is herbaceous perennial. They will grow 7 inches to 4 feet in height. They like their soil be moist and well-drained and they do good being in full sun to partial shade.
Day lilies sure can be real pretty when they bloom and they need only minimal care for all of their colorful blooms. I plant my dayliles in groups in my yard, and they will become a ground cover that is a vigorous, soil-stabilizing one that can outgrow most weeds. During the growing season, their grass like, arching leaves are very attractive, and they provide a lush foil for their blossoms. Daylilies's flowers bloom on a stout, branched stems that are called scapes, and each day lily has many of these, even if the daylilies's blooms last one on day, there is such as beautiful display of many blooms on each plant. The blooming season lasts for weeks. There is so many different colors, sizes, and flowering times, that I can have day lilies blooming in my yard from late spring until frost.
There are hundreds of different day lilies available and they are distinguished by their flower color, height and season. One of the day lilies is "Peach Fairy" and it is a 26 inch tall miniature producing a 2/1/2 inch wide melon pink and it blooms mid season. "Stellade Oro" is the most popular variety of day lily. It is a 12 inch tall miniature with 2/3 inch golden yellow flowers that is grangrant and blooms mid to late season. "Eenie Weenie" is a 7 inch tall dwarf that has yellow flowers and it blooms over an extended season. "Singing Sixteen" is 20 inches tall and has apricot blend flowers that blooms in late season. "Bontiful Valley" grows 28 inches tall and it has lemon yellow flowers with lime throats and they bloom in mid season. Another day lily that blooms mid season is "Catherine Woodbury" it grows 30 inches tall and has pale pink flowers that are 4 inches across with lavender undertones and it has yellow throats. this is another reason I love day lilies for my yard and t is I can have day lilies blooming all season long. This is only a few daylilies, there is so many more.
I can plant my day lilies in my yard both in the spring and fall. I planted all of my light colored varieties up under a little shade because the show up better. Day lilies thrives real good in soil that has organic matter added to it. I always watch and try not to over fertilize my day lilies because if I do this; it will rank growth and reduced flowers.
I really like having crape myrtles in my yard. What is so nice about crape myrtle, they will be blooming in late summer, early fall, when almost of the other plants have stopped blooming.
Crape myrtle can be grown as a small tree or large shrub. My crape myrtle is a tree. During the summer, they have vibrantly colored flowers clusters and during winter, their bark has a smooth multi color to it. Crape myrtle grows real well in hot, sunny locations. Their soil need to be moist, well-drained and they need full fun. Choctaw crape myrtle has dark green leaves that turns maroon in fall, and it has bright pink flowers it mid to late summer. Natches is a fast growing plant that has dark green leaves which turns to a orange-red color in the fall and they have white. "Tuskegee" is one that has dark green glossy and leathery leaves. the leaves turn to an orange-red color in the fall and the flowers are dark pink.
Because there are so many different ones to choose from, we may have to have some more different crape myrtle planted in my yard.
I have always like camellia because I had them in our yard when I was growing up, and I still have them in my yard.
Camellia is a evergreen shrub that has showy flowers in the colors of red, pink, white, and rose. They bloom from fall through spring and their booms will be single, semi double, or double. They grow in zones 8-10, so if you live in these hardiness zones, you can plant your own Camellia.
I have c.japonica or Japanese camellia growing in my yard. It grows pretty tall and the leaves or dark glossy evergreen ones. The flowers are from 3 to 5 inches across from lite winter through spring. The color or this one is red.
Camellias has to be protected form the winter winds, so when they are trying to figure out where to plant your camellias, keep this in mind. They also have to have moist, well-drained acid soil and they also like to have partial shade. I always take all of this to mind, when I am deciding to plant some more camellia. I always add organic matter to my soil and I keep them mulched all the time.
I love having honeysuckles planted around my house for several reasons. One of the reasons is the beautiful smell of their flowers. They are a low maintenance plants.
The yellow honeysuckle which is L.flava is a vine type and the leaves are bring green about, and blow bluish green and this one will produce yellow-orange flowers in the middle of spring. L. flava grows in zones 6-8. I have this one in several different areas of my yard. Goldflame honeysuckle is another vine plant with blue-green leaves, and the red flower buds will open to yellow on inside and pink on outside during spring to early summer. This one is grown in zones 4-9. Another variety of honeysuckle is L.Pileta which is an evergreen,or semi-evergreen shrub, not vine. This shrub will grow up to the height of 3 feet tall. It has spreading branches with small dark green leaves. This honey suckle zones 6-9.
Honeysuckles needs to be planted in moist, well drained soil with a lot of organic matter added to the soil. Honeysuckles can be grown in both sun and shade, but if they are planted in the sun, they will bloom a lot more. They will need to have support for their twining stems. I always prune after they get through flowering to maintain the size of each honeysuckle plant.
