Stella Dora Care

Garden award winner

Culver's Restaurant, 1722 S. Church St., has been recognized with the Watertown Arts Council's Garden Award for the month of July. From left to right are Culver's district manager Mike Sullivan, council member Marie Miller and Culver's general manager Julie Schmackle. Not pictured are Culver's owners Tammy and Mike Derynda. The staff of Culver's has added more to the flower bed each year and takes care of its own planting, watering, pruning and mulching. Hanging petunias grace the side of the building while decorative grasses, daffodils, stella dora lilies, purple coneflowers and spring flowers like tulips and irises make up the flower bed.

Yard and Garden Secrets: Stella D'Oro Daylily Perennial

When fully grown the daylilies will be two feet high with a similar spread.  Plant this prolific bloomer in containers, along a walkway or in a feature garden or anywhere that you desire the cheerful yellow color.  I grow Stella D’Oro daylilies along my back slope, I like the attractive green foliage and the yellow flowers look beautiful when grown in masses. Plant the lilies in the spring after the danger of frost has past. This particular lily is not fussy about the soil or the PH however if you mix your soil with compost or manure the plants are strong and the flowers are vibrant.  Choose a garden site that has six to eight hours of sun with well drained soil. If your summers are extremely hot with temperatures well into the upper nineties, then select a garden site where the lilies will have part sun in the heat of the day.   Dig a hole that is the same depth as the nursery container, set the lily clump in the center of the hole, spread the roots so that they face outward.  Fill the hole with soil and water well.  For bare root planting you would hydrate your bare root for thirty minutes before you plant.  Do this by filling a bowl with tepid water and set the barefoot in the bowl.  Plant the bare root so that the top of the root is one inch below the soil. Susan is retired restaurateur who opened a small garden design business on 2004. By working out of her home Susan is able to do the things that she enjoys; writing, nature photography, off trail hiking, painting, designing and caring for feral cats. Susan is a lover of all things that are beautiful and she shares the beauty that surrounds her by blogging and by designing photographic gifts at her Nature Gift Gallery. Note: Susan earns from the products, endorsements, and reviews on her blogs; she donates these earnings to the feral and stray cats in her community. All proceeds pay for medical cost, shelter and food. These links are part of a pay per click advertising program called Infolinks. Infolinks is an In Text advertising service: they take my text and create links within it. If you hover with your mouse over these double underlined links, you will see a small dialog box containing advertisement related to the text marked. You can choose to either move the mouse away and go on with your browsing, or to press on the box and go to the ad page which is relevant to the text.

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