A Nursery, a work in progress.
By thorneyside
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I am in the process of taking on part of a nursery, the whole thing is too big for me.
It has been used for breeding and selling Hemerocallis for a lot of years but the previous man has given up due to illness.
The collection was over 800 day lillies plus quite a few herbaceous perennials, all of which had years of weed growth.
He took the parent plants but left me the rest and I have been cleaning them of weeds, or trying to, but some had brambles going round until they had split the pots.
A polytunnel that needs recovering plus one with shading are more than enough for me, with a few hours each day weeding.
Lots of the Day lillies are named and although they have never been my favourite plants I can’t wait to see them in flower.
To be continued (I hope)
13 May, 2015
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My word, you've taken on something there! Are you tackling it all single handed? Don't get too busy to show us some progress pictures as you tackle it!
13 May, 2015
Good luck ! :)
13 May, 2015
Good luck in your endeavours, you will need it.
14 May, 2015
Thank you all for your comments. The 800 was the number of parent plants, a big collection. Not sure how many of the "babies" I have but it runs to hundreds.
14 May, 2015
Wow - quite an undertaking! I'm really impressed!
14 May, 2015
Oh gosh that's a lot to contend with but I think you are going to enjoy it all, good luck Thorney...
15 May, 2015
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Oh wow how exciting!!!, daylilies are my obsession!!! but 800 crikey, look forward to seeing pictures when they start flowering and seeing how you get on with the nursery good luck :-)
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