That is a lot of moving. I can see why you would be tired and sore. I would be too.

It's nice to know somebody is accomplishing something. We just got another 2.6 inches of rain. I think we are caught up for the season. April showers (March) bring May flowers!

I did this last spring too (moving daylilies) and I had a long post last spring about last years adventures. I am usually very busy come spring with moving and planting so todays little projects were not much. Have lots and lots left to do. But at least I got a start on the moving.

I really have to get it done now because at mid late April all the new daylily orders start coming so if the musicial daylily moving is not done by then its left until after all the new stuff is planted. Which really is later than it should be done.

Hi Rita. Sounds like your really busy with your daylily moving. It's been so darn cold lately, it's hard to really enjoy being in the yard. I'm back to work at a temp job so i have no more time to garden except on the weekends.

I'm going to email you, i need to ask you a Q about blueberry bushes.

Rita,

Isn't it amazing how a few months of winter can totally mess with your stamina? We usually snowmobile in the winter, so I stay in some semblance of shape, but the snow in the mountains was nothing but dangerous this year, so I have felt like an 80 year old woman the first few times I worked in the garden this spring.

Sounds like you are off to a good start anyway. Happy planting this spring...really looking forward to seeing the results!

Maureen, I sent you an e-mail last night.

Julie- By bedtime I was not at all sore so I was thinking it was not so bad but it must have been the aspirin kicking in because I this morning I work up stiff and sore. It gets harder to get in gardening shape each year as I get older. But I am of the opinion that gardening is great excercise, I just can not immagine quitting. I just hire help for my big (and heavy lifting) projects.

Raining today. Cold and damp. Actually not that very cold but the chilly rain is what makes it feel yucky. So not gardening today. At this rate, I will never, ever get done. Its either raining or too cold for wussy me to get myself going.

Hi Rita; Sounds like you are getting weather like we have here.Rain one day, sun the next, and 75 one day and 45 the next. Can't wait to see more pictures of your gardens and beautiful daylilies...It got to 70 today,and storms coming tomorrow again.

Jean

Nice today, worked all afternoon in the garden. Got a row of daylilies lifted that were put back in too deeply beacuse it was during the planter construction last year and I never got to fixing them last fall.

I also got the complete back row of the row in the terraces garden by the kitchen that needed moving done.
Then I amused myself by measuring and putting string rows in a garden section that is going to get three new rows, some moved from other sections and some from new daylilies ordered this spring. But in the middle of a back row is going one of my mass bulb lily plantings.

I love spring but I sure am dragging this evening. Going to be dragging most of the time now that its spring until I get in shape or all the planting gets done :-((

Raining today sometimes quite heavily. Then it will stop and sorta clear up and then it starts up again. No gardening today. At least everything I moved the day before got really well watered in.

I was so stiff from yesterdays gardening that I do not know how much I would have gotten done anyway. Plus I had lots and lots of work to do on the computer and that is what pays the bills around here.

Yesterday was so cold and windy here, I went outside just to look around and see if it was warm enough to work in the garden. No way, I had my thick winter coat on and nitted hat and still was freezing. I was thinking why am I out here. It looked like it was goning to start raining any minute all day but never did.

Today now, is bright and sunny and mild. Only needed a sweatshirt to work in the garden and even got warm in that in the sunshine. This has been the wierdest spring. Moved some more daylilies today and just puttered around the garden.

Back to moving things around today after mostly planting lily bulbs yesterday. They said rain all day for today but although it was very cloudy and somewhat chilly all day, the rain just started up afew minutes ago. Worked out well as I moved a bunch of daylilies and just was finished as the first sprinkles came.

So far, this happens everytime I have moved daylilies this spring. Lots of rain so I never have to water, it always rains the next day.

I also moved a perrenial TickSeed from the bed that was in with the daylilies but I just did not like that combo.

I know that many of you have mixed perrenial beds with the daylilies mixed in. Every time I see pictures I just love the look. Every time I try it here, it just does not look good to me. Oh well.

Today I moved a bunch of Hollyhocks but only two daylilies. The hollyhocks had started "wandering" out of their intended area and taking up space meant for other things. They are probably seedlings that sprouted last fall.

Then I did the same, dug up some wanderers, of my thornless blackberries that had sprouted in the path between the two rows. They are really very good and rarely come up farther away from the mother plants. And the berries are just huge and so yummy come summer.

Tomorrow I want to move some shrubs. I planted these lilacs two years ago and now that I redid the section of the front yard they are in, the grouping just isn't working for me. I want that whole front slope to be a daylily garden plus blubs. I already started by adding lily bulbs there last year and plan to add more. Many of my daylilies that I bought for this spring are going there (as well as in the front yard new planter terrace). So the lilacs will move back to be in the shrub border that makes up the back of that bed and spring flowering bulbs will be added this fall.

Wow Rita, you are quite the 'mover and shaker' your gardens must be so pleasing and the pics you post are beautiful. Sounds like you have alot of really great ideas and such a variety of plantings. Please post your progress and your results!!
Cindy

Last spring I moved a row of shrubs, actually serviceberries, because like an idiot I planted the shrubs in front of a row of perrenials. How dumb can that be? Of course, the shrubs were about 6 inches tall when I planted them and over 5 feet when I moved them last year. Moved them back to my property line and moved the Hollyhocks that were there to another garden section. Then I put a daylily garden in front of the shrubs that I am planting only late flowering daylilies in. The daylily section is not yet finished because I need more lates.

Anyway, I was thinking about this as I moved shrubs today. I moved 4 lilacs and I don't know why I planted them were they were. They look so good in their new spot, it finishes the shrub row in that garden section. But I never thought of planting them were they are now in the first place and I don't know why. Its the more obvious spot for them instead of were they were. Was not that easy to do, the two biggest shrubs were difficult to lift but I got it done. Then I dug out and tossed a shrub that wasn't working for me.

I have to go back out now and water them good. Really they should have been moved earlier than this but I put it off because I felt it was going to be a big job and I was not looking forward to doing it.

I have five more lilacs to move but they are much smaller than the stuff I already did. Plus the section were they came out of already looks so much better. That hill is planned to be a daylily and lily garden of which I started on last spring. The shrubs just didn't look right and I need the room for more daylilies! The slope is very steep up there which was ok for shrubs but not so great for daylilies so I hope I do not have to put in another terrace wall. Always something.

I moved them. Just came in to wash my hands (and arms) from moving the last five. The last five were smaller and much easier than the first four. I figgured better do the harder ones first or I would run out of steam.

Moved them back into the shrub row. Not the most ideal spot for lilacs as they will have to compete for the sun with the other shrubs already in there. But it gave me about 5 more feet of room on the slope that I did not have. I needed that room for more daylilies and more lily bulbs.

I bought seven of these lilacs mail order two years ago from Songsparrow and the two big ones I bought locally the same spring. Local bought ones were in bloom when I bought them and bloomed ever since. Mail ordered ones had not bloomed yet. Two of them do have a very small amount of flower buds on them now. Don't know if the moving will stop them from flowering or not.

I watered everything I moved yesterday and the first four of today already and now have to go out and water this last batch.

Now that I have the shrubs moved (I needed the room to get in there to move around) I should be able to move some daylilies into the relocation garden in the front yard that I started with clumps from other areas last spring. Then last fall, I decided I needed to change it some and moved some clumps again. That leaves me with empty spots there and I have some things to move to fill in. Then hopefully I can start planting new stuff.

No more planting today. I am poofed.

This moving around of daylilies is starting to get really old and tiring. Moved June Hudson out of the plateau in back because last year she was a disaster there. Moved Dragon King from the front yard were it never bloomed into June Hudson's place in the daylily plateau.

Put June Hudson in the relocation garden in the front yard. Dug up some no ID daylilies from the side yard and filled in the empty spots in the relocation garden.

I had to trim my butterfly bushes back because overwise they get too tall. I still need to fertilize everything, meaning my daylilies and roses and it should have been done already. Its first thing on the agenda for tomorrow.

At least I got the Greensand and fertilizer on the daylilies today. Got the roses fertilized too. I tell you, I don't know who ever measures and puts a cup around each rose and scratches it in. With 200 roses, I just litterly throw the Rose Tone around the roses using one of those plastic deli containers as a scoop.

I used the throw it around method of fertilizing my daylilies too. They had run out of the alfalfa at the feed store the day I was there so I have to go back this week to get some. Then I will throw the alfalfa around the daylilies too.

I actually believe that the "tea" which is the soaked alfalfa works better (at least faster) but I don't have time to do it the slow way. Much to much to do this spring.

Dug up some one fan wonders of daylilies that barely made it thru the winter today and moved one. I am having no great patience with daylilies that loose fans over the winter and struggle to put up the puny fan that did survive the cold. They were so well mulched this year. If they can't make it with that nice mulch then forget about it. They don't need to live here anymore.

Got my four daylilies planted which was my only daylily order to come so far this spring. Planted the Lily Bulbs that came yesterday also. Tomorrow is supposed to rain so I deffinately wanted to get all of them in the ground so they can start to grow.

It rained yesterday starting early afternoon and then just kept getting to rain harder and harder. Kept up all night although it stopped this morning. A cloudy damp day today as everything is absolutely soaked. Thats good for all the things I moved around though, they sure got a nice watering in.

Figgured I had better get the pump going in my pond today as it just too damp for me to want to do much else outside. The water has already turned somewhat green and there is tannen in there from the leaves that fall in whenever. I scoop at least once a week and its really not that many leaves.

The Stocktank in ground pond is now under a big limbed up Blue Spruce tree and one thing I never figgured on is all the pine needles that fall in there. I had to get the pump /bio filter combo cleaned up good before starting them up and it was full of those sucked up pine needles.

Well, it should clear the water in afew days unless the UV bulb is no longer good. I read somewhere that they don't last more than one season but I don't know if that is true or not. I figgure I will just wait. If the water does not clear in afew days, I will know I need to replace the bulb.

It looks good with the fountain going again, makes me think summer instead of winter.

The pond water is nice and clear today and it's only been two days. Hurray. Guess that proves the UV bulb is still good. I could see my fish at the bottom, which certainly wasn't the case afew days ago.

Got a box of lily bulbs in the mail today, 12 fancy Lilies, 3 bulbs each. My mail comes very late but I got them all planted.

Before that I was planting some Asiatic lily bulbs in the 2nd row of the front yard planter box between were the daylilies are going to be. Really it should be done plant daylilies in the row first, then fill in with lily bulbs but since the daylilies are not here and the lily bulbs were here, it got done this way.

I have more lily bulbs coming from another bulb lily order for the rest of the bewteen spots so the planter box should look pretty good come summer.

In case anyone thought that I was organized and finished with the moving of daylilies (at least for this spring) no such luck. I had to move a row of daylilies in between some rose sections in my frontyard because I had decided to order and plant even more Siberian Iris. So I was moving daylily clumps last week. Actually I only first dug them up and put them in a pastic sweaterbox as I had to plant those Siberian Iris first. Then afer afew days I planted them in new spots.