Winter has arrived in Southern Indiana and we have stopped shipping trees and shrubs until early Spring.
All orders placed after 11/18/11 will be shipped in early March, 2012. All orders will be processed and held until our spring shipping begins. Thanks for your interest. Pat
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Black Eyed Stella Daylily Hemerocallis 'Black Eyed Stella - Black Eyed Stella is the first daylily ever to win the All-American Daylily Selection award. This was mainly due to the extraordinary length of time the daylily blooms. 'Black Eyed Stella' blooms more like a bedding plant than a perennial. Compact and tidy, 'Black Eyed Stella' holds its blooms 14 to 22 inches high atop handsome, very dense, blue-green foliage. The blossoms open at night; remain open all the next day, and then close. This nocturnal blooming habit is an important advantage in northern climates whose cool mornings can keep some daylilies from opening properly. Old blossoms drop quickly from the self-grooming plant, making way for new, fresh flowers. Black Eyed Stella' finds many uses in the home garden. It combines beautifully with annuals and perennials in a traditional mixed-flower border. It's also an excellent candidate for growing in containers. The hallmark of this winner is its near-continuous blooming. It has been rated as excellent for growth in eight zones across the US and Canada. This means it will winter well in Minnesota but also maintain its bloom and foliage beauty throughout the summer months, even in southern Florida. Black Eyed Stella responds well to water and fertilizer, but needs nothing unusual or extra. Customers will find it both cold hardy and heat tolerant. Gardeners should plant it in full sun for best show. The two hottest selling daylilies in the world today are Stella de Oro and Black Eyed Stella. These daylilies never disappoint you! Care: Daylilies top the list of low maintenance plants. Though not demanding in its needs, daylilies do best in well-drained soil and full to partial sun - increasing shade equals decreasing blooms. Soil improvement and fertilizing will definitely pay off in richer blooms and more vigorous plants. Remove unsightly leaves and scapes or cut to the ground after flowering to encourage fresh new foliage and reblooming. These daylilies are double fans that will bloom this year. They will be shipped bare root with moist material around their roots.
Price: $9.50
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Fun Plant FactsAn African bugleweed synthesises in its tissues a substance similar to the hormone that controls the development of caterpillars. If a caterpillar is persuaded, experimentally, to ingest that substance, then when it turns into a butterfly it will develop two heads and die. -David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants, p70 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. A pineapple is a berry. Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking (so if you ever get shot with a poison arrow, do not go to a doctor, look in your kitchen cabinet. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip. No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially. Peanuts are beans. Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America. The California redwood - coast redwood and giant sequoia - are the tallest and largest living organism in the world. The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches. The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old. The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots. Asparagus is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks, and garlic. The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot. One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop. These facts are gathered from the internet and may or may not be true. |
