Over the last couple months, when I post photos of things growing in my yard and gardens, I often have questions about gardening in the comments.6_24.jpg)
I am not a professional by any means. I have worked at a friend’s plant nursery for 12 years and I’ve been gardening for about 20 years. I read a lot about plants and growing them and I have made enough mistakes to provide a lifetime of learning. 
I am not sure how this will turn out, but I am willing to try to answer any gardening questions that you leave in the comments. If I don’t know the answer, I will try to find it, or direct you to a place where you can get more information.
As Clint Eastwood once sort of said, a gardener has to know their limitations, and I certainly know mine. I am in Upstate NY – zone 5 in plant hardiness, so if you have a question about growing succulents in Arizona or cannas in Florida, I am not your girl. I also don’t know much of anything about roses. And I have a feeling that the questions asked might highlight some other areas of ignorance which I will will be happy to share with all of you.
So – ask away and we will see if I know as much as I think I do, or if I will slink off into a corner in ignominious defeat. I bet you just can’t wait to find out which it will be!
I had no idea! I’m going to start emailing you photos of all the flowers I can’t identify from now on. :-)
Here is an easy one for you…Will use your vast knowledge to help me landscape?
Oh knock it off, stop being so modest ….. if 20 some years of experince, 12 of them at a greenhouse, doesn’t make you close to a professional, I don’t know what does …. and you’re almost a proefessional photographer and chef… to boot!
I’ll be thinkin’ of my quershtons! Should we call this “Stump the Gardener?”
You’ve got mad skills in gardening Dlyn. Keep it up!
=)
This is a generous offer of your time and knowledge.
So I love the bottom photo. It’s a daylily, right? Do you know the variety?
Ellyn – you know I will – nothing I love better than spending other people’s money!
Ruth – that is a daylily, but an unamed one. It is a species daylily – landscapers use them in mass plantings and I can’t even remember how I ended up with them. They are helping hold a bank next to the road and always bloom before anything else.
Jules, you can team up with my cousin to stump me – probably take you about 2 seconds!
CM – I have a question for you – how come you can’t grow clematis?
Thanks Ashleigh :)
Do they require water? ; )……. no
really, I think it is becasue of the little tid bit of pertinent news you gave …. I didn’t protect the roots. They were in a sunny place that got too hot at the base. These days I’m not gardenign at all. When the church got much tighter with their budget and I had to work a lot of overtime, I gave that up …. and at home …. I’m waitng until the yard is no longer filled with ball players. In the mean time, I’m living my gardening dreams through you.
I am going to take a day off soon away from this crazy work schedule and spend a day at our loacl botannical gardens. KC has had a great spring and summer with lots of rain and things are growing beautifully. It’s almost time for Daylily Daze there. : )
OK, let’s all sing along>>>>>
Don’t know much about history,
Don’t know much biology,
Don’t know much that’s in my science book,
Don’t know much of the French I took,
LaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa (that’s all):>)
YR
I love the Missouri Primrose! Growing up south of New Orleans, they were everywhere and my favorite flower. Mom called them buttercups (I know better now). We’d pick them and press their centers to our noses and chins and be covered in the yellow pollen (hence the buttercup moniker). I know they’re a weed, but they’re gorgeous. Thanks for the picture!