Thank you, Liquid Fence®

Last year we anticipated the blooming of our clump of daylilies (Hemerocallis fulva), only to awake one morning and see naked stalks with no flowers. The deer got them. All of them.

This year, we were ready with Liquid Fence.

From Missouri Botanical Garden: “Hemerocallis fulva is commonly called tawny daylily for the 5" diameter, tawny orange flowers. Individual flowers open for one day. This large species daylily has flower scapes rising up to 6' tall from a large clump of thick, arching, blade-like, bright green leaves. A superb colonizer that has naturalized in many parts of the country and is commonly seen growing along roads, in alleys and in old gardens, often in very poor soil. It is rarely sold commercially at this point because it has been for the most part replaced by hybrids.

“Genus name comes from the Greek words hemera meaning day and kallos meaning beauty as each flower lasts but one day.

“Specific epithet means tawny-orange.”

» Wikipedia
» Species page at PhytoImages.siu.edu (not a secure connection)

Looking back
  1 year ago: “Hardy Pond — “On the Day” Post #3000”
 2 years ago: “Merely documentation…”
 3 years ago: “Checking on ‘Good Bones’ properties [Travel day]”
 4 years ago: “Widow Skimmer”
 5 years ago: “What are *you* lookin’ at?”
 6 years ago: “Grapes, not periwinkles”
 7 years ago: “From underneath”
 8 years ago: “Ice plant”
 9 years ago: “Attack of the Deere-asaurus”
10 years ago: “Japanese beetles”

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[Mags]

How beautiful! I'll have to investigate this liquid fence.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam Warning: it's foul-smelling stuff (which, I presume, is precisely *how* it works)!

[Mags]

@rhoing I tried the mulch with the tiger poop in it which stunk to high heavens and it didn't work. LOL! Wonder what this stuff has in it.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam Don't care. It worked!
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Not true that I don't care. Used the last of my RoundUp some time ago and haven't bought any since.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam
Putrescent While Egg Solids ... 1.040%
Garlic ................................................ 0.375%
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate ................ 0.040%
Thyme Oil ....................................... 0.010%
Other Ingredients* ................... 98.535%
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* Water, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Trisodium Citrate Dihydrate, Citric Acid, Xanthan Gum

[Mags]

@rhoing I'll look for it at Lowes next time I'm there. I have to get some masonry sand to fill in the ruts the bucket trucks caused and they made so many.

[GaryW]

Beautiful lily! Glad the liquid fence worked.

[Jane Pittenger]

Did you spray it on the lilies?

[Kathy]

A lovely flower. Glad the liquid fence works.

[Thom Mitchell]

@jgpittenger Yes, before the flowers opened. It's foul-smelling stuff, but the smell to humans dissipates.