Plants are offered for sale based on their size, how many we have and the section of the farm they are planted. Newly transplanted cultivars need at least one year to reach the number of fans or make the root growth we desire for successful transplanting to your garden. Yes, smaller plants will grow, but we like to see them reach maturity and bloom within the year after transplanting. In spring our field is usually in various states of ice and frost until the first part of March or April, depending on the year. When it is not frozen, due to the 50 to 60 inches of rain our little valley receives a year, the cleanly tilled soil is too wet to work. Only the daylilies that have been planted close to the office, and in sandy loam soil, are offered for sale in early spring. These tend to break dormancy sooner and the soil is usually dry enough in Mid April to dig without ruining our soil structure. Port Townsend, Washington is actually further north than Maine; our plants will not have the larger top growth in spring as when dug in Midsummer. The advantage is, they have not wasted energy on leaves that need to be cut off before shipping. They settle-in quickly and will not have had time to put up flowering scapes before being shipped, so the chances of bloom the first summer is greatly increased. Midsummer brings more plants that can be chosen. Our lily bulb shipping is finished and we are beginning to work in the daylily field, digging and dividing plants for the next rotation. In June more choices are added to the "for sale" pages and some cultivars from the spring list are deleted as they sell out for the year. Fall shipping ends in September, when we turn our attention to the Peony, Iris and Lily BULB harvest. Only a few varieties are available, based on our increasing workload. If your daylily request comes in too late for us to process it in fall, and we cannot send it to you in November, when the bulb orders are finished, we will hold the order in our files for Spring Delivery. Mild winter areas can transplant daylilies throughout most of the year, moderate areas like coastal WA, OR, or CA may transplant daylilies from us through at least the end of November, as our local weather permits digging. Winter dug plants do not have any top growth, only root structure. Our first frost of the fall is in early September. The fall of 2002 gave us 17, 18 and 22 degrees for three nights in late October, that same year; our last spring frost was in Mid May, again down to 17 degrees F., providing us with lots of opportunities to trial new varieties for all areas of the USA. |
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