Time-Lapse Blooming of Day Lilies
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Garden clean-up time
This autumn is a cacophony of lovely colors bracketed with cool clear nights and balmy, blue-sky days.
Signey and Chuck Claussen are making the most of it.
"We're pulling weeds in the garden to get a head start on next spring," Signey says. "We're 89 and 90 years old. We don't work as fast as we used to, and the weeds get ahead of us."
It's understandable. With 350 varieties of day lilies and the same number of iris, preparing for cold weather is a big job at the Claussens' rural Sioux Falls home.
The couple also raise peonies, roses and a variety of trees and shrubs.
They basically leave the day lilies alone unless they've planted new ones, which they'll protect with straw. If there's time, they cut the peonies down to six to eight inches.
Tea roses require special care. "We mound dirt around them," Signey says. "We use newspapers and fold them to make a barrier, and put dirt between the rose and newspaper and put hay around that."
"We just leave the shrub roses," she adds.
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