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urbandogsgarden

urbandogsgarden's Daylily Row garden

Garden Type: Frontyard | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Clay I'm Organic!

This is another frontyard garden created because of my aversion to lawns. This strip of grass between my house and my neighbor’s is half mine and half theirs. They are wonderful people. My weedy half was spoiling the beauty of their lush, green side. They don’t use any chemicals and she hand pulls all of her weeds, I admire them. I don’t use chemicals and manually pull weeds but my lawn is now basically clover, plantain, dandelions and other types of unknown invasive weeds.

In the spring of 2007 my dad came to visit and, as he usually does, brought me plants from his garden. I had requested daylilies and he brought me eight. He never labels or remembers exactly what he plants unless it is a tree or bush so these would all be a nice surprise when they bloomed. We decided they would be perfect to replace the grass on my side of the strip. No more mowing and they look really nice next to my neighbor’s green healthy grass.

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  • Gerbera

    Gerbera wrote:

    Like yr daylilys so much. They grow very well here in the highland. But I have them b4 and believe or not they dont want to open flower at all due to the weather too hot here! only have the green leave that its.. they not in my garden anymore since I back from UK ..maybe my family think they are weed and trow it away or they just die.. have no idea at all, even not see their flower pot!

    Posted on 04 Jan 09 (about 11 months ago)

  • Lisapizza

    Lisapizza wrote:

    Hello from a fellow Chicago gardener! I love your lillies, and your frontyard garden! Thanks for sharing. :)

    Posted on 10 May 09 (about 6 months ago)

  • urbandogsgarden

    urbandogsgarden wrote:

    Hi lisapizza! Thanks for your kind words.

    Posted on 10 May 09 (about 6 months ago)

  • ves

    ves wrote:

    This is spectacular!

    Posted on 06 Jul 09 (about 5 months ago)

  • TropicanaRoses

    TropicanaRoses wrote:

    Oh my!! These are gorgeous!!!!

    Posted on 22 Oct 09 (about 30 days ago)

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