Comments on: 10 Plants You Should Never Buy (Because I Guarantee Someone Will Just Give Them To You) http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/2007/04/10-plants-you-should-never-buy-because.html Gardening isn't a hobby, it is an obsession Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:36:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: PAT http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/2007/04/10-plants-you-should-never-buy-because.html/comment-page-1#comment-7065 PAT Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:45:14 +0000 http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/new/2007/08/10-plants-you-should-never-buy-because-i-guarantee-someone-will-just-give-them-to-you.html#comment-7065 So you hate your ditch lillies? Send them to me, I will gladly pay postage, I want the kind I saw on my grandma's midwestern farm, they grew in the ditches, the garden and all around her house, I adore them and having trouble finding the old fashioned (orange with dark speckles) ones here in salt lake city Utah. Please help! Thanks, Pat, contact me at- flitter2454@msn.com So you hate your ditch lillies? Send them to me, I will gladly pay postage, I want the kind I saw on my grandma’s midwestern farm, they grew in the ditches, the garden and all around her house, I adore them and having trouble finding the old fashioned (orange with dark speckles) ones here in salt lake city Utah. Please help!
Thanks, Pat, contact me at- flitter2454@msn.com

]]> By: Arrianne http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/2007/04/10-plants-you-should-never-buy-because.html/comment-page-1#comment-6411 Arrianne Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:08:24 +0000 http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/new/2007/08/10-plants-you-should-never-buy-because-i-guarantee-someone-will-just-give-them-to-you.html#comment-6411 Good point, a good network of gardeners will never want for plant starts. I would only say that there are some cultivated varieties available (but I know this is not always the case with nurseries looking to make an easy dollar) that are very well behaved and not nearly as invasive as their wildflower parents that are much easier to propagate, as you've pointed out. The difference being unique variations for gardeners that want unique specimens. For example: Ditch Lily (usually Hemerocallis not Tiger Lily which is several wild species of Lilium that a similiar shade of orange but has a spotted throat, but this is the problem with using common names)is cultivated into many very stunning forms with picot edges, variegated foliage, tolerant of shade, very long blooming, double petals and an amazing array of colors. Good point, a good network of gardeners will never want for plant starts.

I would only say that there are some cultivated varieties available (but I know this is not always the case with nurseries looking to make an easy dollar) that are very well behaved and not nearly as invasive as their wildflower parents that are much easier to propagate, as you’ve pointed out. The difference being unique variations for gardeners that want unique specimens.

For example: Ditch Lily (usually Hemerocallis not Tiger Lily which is several wild species of Lilium that a similiar shade of orange but has a spotted throat, but this is the problem with using common names)is cultivated into many very stunning forms with picot edges, variegated foliage, tolerant of shade, very long blooming, double petals and an amazing array of colors.

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