Hello, I have two Cinnamon Bushes (about 2 ft tall) to trade for one of these Daylilies: My wish list Any Spacecoast Daylily Exotic Treasure Hillbilly Heart Yabba Dabba Doo Cherrystone Palace Garden Darla Anita Love Those Eyes Burning Embers Coquina Key John Peat Continental Holiday Fairy's Palace Jane Trimmer Drowning in Desire Key West Soldier of Fortune Special Agenda I have alot of the common daylilies. If you have a fairly new daylily not listed, let me know. Tempt me Since its hot weather, I would mail mail Cinnamon Bushes in the fall. John

No problems since last fall. I thought I wasnt going to like this one but the nursery rep convinced me to buy it. She was correct, excellent color and it bloomed until the first snow.

ksrogers-the variety you are thinking about is probably the 'Aussie Sweetie' I mentioned in my last posting. It was introduced by my dad, Tom DeBaggio, in 1990 and is very similar to 'Greek Columnar'-it doesn't flower in some regions at all, sporadically in others. It was originally from seed brought over from Australia (probably originally via Greece by imigrants to Australia) but is propagated via cuttings to preserve its special characteristics. Some others that are beautiful in flower and behave more like a perennial in that flowering doesn't stop the leaf production are 'African Blue' and 'Variegated African Blue'. Also, pepper basil Ocimum selloi (the leaves actually taste like a green bell pepper) will flower and still produce leaves. 'Pesto Perpetuo' is a recently introduced, patented variety that appears to be a variegated 'Aussie Sweetie' and has inherited the characteristic for few to no flowers.

I'm in a very different climate than you are (PNW), but here goes: I have a perennial herb garden for culinary herbs that takes up about 6' x 4' - hard to say, because it's an irregular shape. The annual herbs are in the veg garden, and other herbs are scattered around in pots and in other beds. There are non-culinary herbs here and there as well. My "dream" herb garden would include the sort of things I have now, but a little more artfully arranged, and maybe with more of some things - I love basil, and so, this year, I've started it from seed instead of going for a half-dozen nursery plants. I should have a basil-o-rama. In the perennial garden, I have tons of thyme, sage, rosemary, fennel, lovage, chives, oregano, marjoram, and tarragon. (There's comfrey too, because that sucker just wants to be there.) Most of these are there through the entire year; the tarragon does die back. In the veg garden, there's chervil, parsley (could have been in the perennial garden, since it sticks around, but it likes where it lives so I've left it there thus far), cilantro, dill, chervil. Mint is in a pot to keep it contained. Someone once planted lemon balm on this property, and it grows everywhere - it's become a bit of a weed. (A nice-smelling weed that you can use for tea or in salads). The bay is also in a pot, as is the kaffir lime. So is the cardamom, which is really just there for fun, since I doubt I'll be getting pods from the thing. The leaves smell nice :-) More rosemary and more thyme grow in other pots. In other beds - lavender, chamomile. As far as your question re bed design, I'm a fan of raised beds, so that's what I'd choose. My current perennial herb garden is stone, which is pretty, and allows for a non-geometric shape. I like everything to be easily accessible for plucking things to bring in to the kitchen, so I'd choose narrow/small beds. I like things to be aesthetically pleasing, so I'd keep that in mind as I laid out my plants. Have fun!