Happy birthday Quyen!

Hope your birthday is extra special, like you!
Here's a Louisiana iris for you...

This message was edited Aug 15, 2007 12:54 PM

Wow, is that one spectacular flower! I could learn to like daylilies!
Happy birthday Quyen!
~'spin!~

Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you...
Won't even try to top that pretty posey!

It's mine Spin! I love that one.

Happy birthday!

And I love the flower weegy--I'm not a daylily person but that one could make me change my mind for sure!

Hee Hee, I have them!

Does it have a name? (just in case I need to get it for Blooms...)
~'s!~

Happy birthday, Quyen. I hope this coming year will be your best ever.

Zuzu, what a beautiful picture! That one should go on Blooms.

I have to look it up Spin...will get back to you.

uh, that's an iris, not a daylily! ;-)

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=Louisiana+iris&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search

This message was edited Aug 15, 2007 10:35 AM

That was what I thought too when I first saw the pic, but I knew weegy grew irises and since I don't grow them or daylilies I figured she knew what it was better than I did! Guess I can keep on not liking daylilies then!

That's heresy, Ecrane, or at least impropriety.

Thanks, Kathleen. It's an old hybrid tea called Hawaiian Sunset.

Close to that iris?

Maybe I should get to know some of the newer daylily cultivars, my memory is of the plain old orange ones that my mom had about 5000 of in her garden when I was growing up. And I also have this rather silly thing where if I could have grown it back when I lived in Ohio, I don't want to grow it now. I'm not sure why that is, but I'm much more interested in the plants that are new and different and I didn't see all over the place when I was growing up. I'm sure if I live here long enough I'll get tired of a lot of the things that we grow a lot out here too, but it's only been a little over 5 yrs since I moved here so the novelty hasn't worn off yet!

OMG, yes it is a Louisiana! I think the heat has gone to my head.

No I don't know what I'm doing! I'm so glad you are all here to keep me in form!

Ha ha, I didn't look close enough either -- to see the little "fringes" (are those the "beards" of bearded iris??)

But it's pretty funny, too, the first-pass similarity between weegy's iris and Sue's daylily!

So is the iris Black Gamecock? or just a no-name Louisiana Iris? -- and do LA Iris like a lot of moisture?

~'s!~

Yes, spin, LA's love water, mine do the best in water. Otherwise you have to give them plenty of water...
Here's some interesting info on LA's...

http://books.google.com/books?id=4-T1HH-X1_sC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=parts+of+a+louisiana+iris&source=web&ots=09lTBTvZ68&sig=Lw2lJHvJDuV9wOXqVTpoMvwvovo#PPA77,M1

Where's Quyen? She's missing a good thread!

Liz, I don't like day lilies, either. In fact, I don't like most lilies, especially those smelly ones - stargazer? I've only recently been able to look at a cala lily without have nightmares. What is it about those flowers? I saw a native lily recently I thought was pretty and thought, "oh, good, I'm not totally irrational." And I do love water lilies, so perhaps I'm really not a bad person? lol

I never cared for daylilies either, especially those orange and yellow common ones planted everywhere, that is, until I toured a garden and saw all the new fancy special hybrids! Not the ones found in local nurseries either, those all are so ho hum.
Now I have on named after me and my daughter and granddaughter too by a famous daylily hybridizer!
Until you see these types in person, you don't really know what you are missing.

But then again, some people are naturally drawn to certain types of plants and flowers and others like me, get drawn to way too many different types to the point of craziness! :-)
It's all relative.

OOOHHHHH, wanna trade!?!!!?

:-( only have two fans of this one, JULIE NEWMAR.

That's ok, I'll take both!!

LOL!

You're right, Sue. Hard to put them in categories, too - just a case of we know what we like and what we don't! :-) Sometimes I like big flowers, sometimes small, simple petal arrangements, complicated orchids, etc.

It's true that we sometimes form opinions from long ago. Drdon and I were talking about agapanthus being one of those when we were at Weegy's pot luck - those things have been planted ad nauseum since I was a kid. And yes, I remember those yellow day lilies, too! And sweet allyssum - yuk! Every developer in CA must use the same plants over and over and over. Some things I can appreciate, but wouldn't want them in my garden to look at every day.

How cool is that, having varieties named after you and your loved ones!

You can tell I haven't lived here long enough yet--I still like Agapanthus, and oleanders, and crape myrtles, and lantana...I'm sure I'll be tired of them someday but for now I still like them! There are other things I like better, but I still think they're pretty!

That is cool having plants named after you--if someone named a daylily after me, I would totally start growing them! I have to make do with Carpenteria 'Elizabeth' which I can pretend was named for me, and there's a Hibiscus called 'Liz' that I may have to acquire at some point for the same reason!

Happy Birthday Quyen ! Don't melt away in this heat !

Someone (me...! ) needs to take a stand and defend Daylilies from any more "bashing" here ! (Just kidding...) They DO come in other colors than orange and yellow, BTW...

There are other plants that are grown ad nauseum here in Calif., other than Agapanthus, (although they probably are THE most over used...) . This would include Dietes, Wheelers Dwarf Pittosporum, Raphiolepsis, Ligustrum, and Nandina's...all of which are nice plants in their own right, but are so mass reproduced and overused that they just become commonplace after a while.

The big box stores are partly to blame for this.

Anyway...back to Quyen's Birthday!

Bash, bash, bash!!!! hehehe...

Calla lilies give me the creeps too, Kathleen.

Zuzu,

There are several others that are beautiful flowers, but remind me of years of working in hospitals. We hated taking bouquets in to patients sometimes, they were so reminiscent of funerals. Remember that when you send something to a sick person! Florists should have flower groups - funereal/non-funereal.

Any Harry Potter fans here? I'm bashing myself on the head! Sorry, sorry....

Carnations remind me of funerals.

Gladiolas remind me of a funeral...And I have some!
Never got into Harry Potter, Kathleen.

Weegy, there's a character in HP - an elf slave named Dobby - who beats himself over the head when he thinks he has done something to displease or betray his master in some way (also when HP is nice to him, because nobody else has every shown him a bit of kindness). Thought I might be bashing flowers too much and should punish myself. :-)

I enjoyed the final book so much, I'm reading all 7 again - DH is right behind me.

Oh I see. We're not bashing flowers, just stating facts!

Carnations remind me of smelling my Mom's carnation in the garden as a child, the fragrance takes me back. Snapdragons remind me of her garden too. She showed me how to pinch them to make the 'talk'. She developed that love of gardening in me and now we pretty much like the same plants. Well, actually I am more obsessed with collecting different plants but I blame Dave's Garden and all the forums here for that!

I like fuschias because I remember playing "ballerina" with them. :-) My mom is amazed at the gardening I do now, because she couldn't get me to stay in the garden when I was young - too many bees!

I am such a dweeb! I was miles deep in running during the summer of '07 and never even checked on DG. I didn't even know this thread existed until today. ( It came up when I did a search for So Cal RU 2007. Was looking for the description of the beautiful 3-tier cake that Kanita's brother made.)

Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes, everyone. I am touched that you thunk of me. I will have to make it up to you guys in June.

D'uh Quyen.

I have a picture of that cake Quyen. LMK if you want it.