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The border is all daylilies. They are easy to mow around since the leaves drape over the edge. They are planted in 2 rows.
They are all older cheaper ones that I paid $5 or less for each one. They started out all right up against the fence. Then I decided to expand into curved beds. I took half inch color pictures of the daylilies with the name on the back and E, M or L on the front so I would know when they bloomed and spent hours during the winter arranging them on a drawing so I would get evenly mixed colors and bloom times. The 4 rebloomers are well spaced.
I enlarged the garde by bringing the back row to the front 2 years ago and found that I had short plants behind tall ones so last year I expanded it again to bring the shorter plants back to the front.
Behind the daylilies I have a few trees, 2 smoke trees, dwarf pear & plum, Ky. Coffee,a juniper,dwarf alberta spruces, smaller arborvitaes crabapple and a fruiting quince.
Bushes are spice, flowering quince,beautyberries,3 vibernums a nanking cherry and a few very small euonymus.
Perennials include maiden grass, fennel, mums, blanketflowers, hostas, trumpet vines columbines and lilies.
I plant some tall annuals like cannas and castor beans to add color and height. milkweeds and parsley for the butterflies and coriopsis.
Compas plants that the birds added have been trying to take over part of it.
Rabbits live in there and they do eat daylilies but with so many I never notice it. I tried to plant red okra in there this spring for the first time but the rabbits ate them all.
The fence is along the south side of my property and before I expanded the bed and put in taller plants, most of the daylilly blooms faced south, away from me.
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