Welcome to Daylily Manor's "Garden Web Tour" |
We'd like to welcome you to Daylily Manor - via the web - to see how things are "growing" here in Southern Mississippi. The last "tour" was in May 2003 and if I thought things were "hectic" then, I had no idea of what the summer would bring! We hope some of you from Mississippi did make it to the Daylily Shows held by the SCMDS (South Central Mississippi Daylily Society) and the HADS (Hattiesburg Area Daylily Society)! We actually made it to the "head" table with TEXAS WHOPPER STOPPER (Best Large at SCMDS) and GREY WITCH (Best Spider/Spider Variant at HADS). Guess those spring rains and cool nights did help us out! We finally finished installing the irrigation systems and getting everything all "wired" up. After working on it for 2 years, we enjoyed the "automatic" watering of the gardens instead of "dragging hoses" for a whole month! Our enjoyment was cut short, when lightening struck a tree, traveled across the ground and down into one of the irrigation wires. It "melted" all the solenoids on that line, traveled all the way back to the house, literally blew that controller off the wall. Now transferring to the house wiring it took out four more irrigation controllers, our computer, scanner, fax machine, and satellites. Our only luck (other than our house didn't catch on fire) was for some reason it did not get the water well so at least we could drag hoses again! By the time we finally got most of that repaired/replaced the rains started again and we no needed the irrigation! Huey, who spent all spring recuperating from his shoulder surgery, decided to really put the "new" shoulder to the test when he bought out a garden in Foley, AL. We dug and brought from AL to MS over 5,000 plants during August and into September. At Daylily Manor we pot all our daylilies, so while I divided, washed, trimmed, and made the tags, Huey shoveled 115 cubic yards (3105 cubic feet!!) of soil mix to fill the 5,000 pots and planted the daylilies. Now we're used to potting but we've never tried 5,000 at a time and I really don't believe we will ever try that again!! |
December, 2003 |
The Koi Pond |
The land clearing for new beds which we had started in the Spring and which was put on "hold" because of all the rain finally resumed in October. Of course, with the "unexpected" addition of 5000 new plants, we expanded even more than planned... |
The last pile !!! |
Huey's "Potting Tent" which he outfitted with fans "to keep the daylilies cool"...more like... "to keep Huey cool"...cause it was hot! |
and there were... Pots to right of him, Pots to left of him, Pots in front of him, lined up and growing... |
That little orange spec is the dozer...talk about :thick" woods.... |
We don't get a whole lot of excitement in New Augusta ...so Huey and Mother camped out to watch the fun... |
but never fear...Gary...the dozer operator extraordinaire...is here |
and rain drops start again...rain, rain go away... |
but just in case he misses a spot...the team of Huey and Mother are on the lot... |
....and we are going put daylilies here next spring????? |
So that was our summer and fall...we hope you enjoyed this quick little glimpse...and hope you return to see our 2004 blooms... |
Huey & Pat |
Pictures |
