LOL! First son??? Do you have another on the way???
Show me you favorite Daylily
Not that I know of...
uh-oh....
This is my favorite, Going Bananas,and I liked it before I knew the name.(haha) It blooms in early summer for about a month.I love the lemon yellow.
Beautiful~ I find I really like the yellows...
This unknown DL is a late but delightful bloomer.
They look similar. How tall is it?
This one is a shortie about 12 to 16 inches tall. Course that may be my poor soil ~ after I saw the photos together, I thought the same thing. Hmmm... perhaps this hand me down lily has an ID...
Do you want to trade one and experiment?
How tall is going bananas? BTW, love that name and your name...
I will gladly trade but will have to look. We have been horribly dry and the foliage may have died down... you may get pot luck or maybe wait till spring? pod
You know even the same daylily in a new place will be a diffrent size... at one time I was very much into Daylilies until I saw that so many did not like to grow to their best in the Dallas area so I left them for plants that like to live here better... and the few that I love that I will never ever get rid of!
Sure IME they will even perform differently in the same place with different soil and care. I kept many in pots for awhile here.
right,,, they take a lot of water here for me... dont like my full sun and dont always make it will my Daylilies.... but I still love the flowers and the blooms and dream one day to live in a place were they will grow into the wonderful and huge plants they do in the North.
Only in summer ~ lol Don't like the cold. But the flower colors in the north are so intense in the summer. It is beautiful!
I know,, flower bulbs, lilacs, and some flowers in the warmer times - and I love the Fall colors there too.. but in the winter I am thrilled to be here. I know I dream of a perfect world so I can grow tropicals, Texas natives, and cool weather plants... but I am happy to live here and love my gardens here.
Me, too, Mitch. Have wound up with so many tropicals in pots that I really need a GH for about 3 months a year. Way too many to take inside my home. No such thing as a reasonably priced GH......at least not for my pocket book.
LouC, you might consider bulding a cold frame. It's much cheaper and I think it works well for just overwintering things in pots. You can order them from people like Charleys Greenhouse. I have seen some as tall as 30 inches I think. I have a friend here who made one and put heat in the bottom with copper coils I think.
Going Bananas is about 2'. http://db.tinkersgardens.com/?script=3.1Well, acccording to Tinkers I may not have the right thing!
We have our challenges in Texas!!!
Mitch, are there any other good performers? I was surprised how well Byzantine Emperor did just from some decrepid boxed scapes in their first year.
Here is the emperor!
Thanks, Podster for the name compliment. I wanted to change it after seeing some of the creative plays on words and garden references after I signed up.
Byzantine Emperor
Eqyptian Queen
Malachi
Roll of the Dice
Snake Eyes
Wedding Band
Pandoras Box
Gentleman Farmer
Siren
I know all these did great... some I kept some I gave or sold but they all did great when they lived here. I had at one point 200... many never bloomed for me in the two years I kept them - and have a rule, two years no bloom you are out of here. I focused on whites and light tones with great eyes.. wanted to start a breeding program but never had the number of blooms on any one day I needed to really get going.
I bow to the emperor, that is beautiful Anna!! I love the color and the center just pops!
Sheila - I think I gave you that one last year at the fall swap... I had dug it out of the bed it was in for some natives to live there and had it at the swap...
Do you remember what ones I did get into your hands?
I have been disappointed with many of mine aswell. Except for "going bananas", all the others are year one.I have about 10 different ones.Thanks for the list ,Mitch.
They are a stunning flower.. wish they did a little better here but anyways I love the new one for me to look for too. Going Bananas... on my need list now.
I got 'Kazoo, Jim Terry" and 'Moonlight Masquerade' from you. I may have gotten the Byzantine Emperor, but it doesn't sound familiar and didn't bloom this year. I will definately look for it next year.
I know I had a whole two trays full last year that I gave away...
I don't remember much of last year's Dallas swap. I had just had my first surgery and was still on pain killers! LOL!
Mitch, I will have Going Bananas for you in the spring.
Thank you would love to see what it does...
I hope I can remember the names of these when I have an opportunity to buy some. I planted about 8 different ones last spring and can't wait to see them bloom. I need to make a list of them. I know one was Midnight raider. Mitch the raspberry pixie you gave me is gone. I should have put it in a pot. Instead I put it in the ground and pulled it out by accident thinking it was nutgrass. I was very upset with myself.
silverfluter, have you read that incredibly long thread about metal markers and tape machines in the DL forum? I actually ended up buying some. So far my dog has left them alone and they have been very useful to prevent accidental death! A friend got a kick out of my "Little Business" marker.(And what exactly is the business?)
Can anyone here tell me if the "red" daylilies would look better in the shade? Would they do very well in shade?
They really are not my favorite (sorry for posting this in this thread) because they look positively weepy!
I think most of the dayliles are better in atleast part shade. Now what is going on in that picture?
Pod, so what's to be sorry about?
Well the thread was show us your "favorite" daylily ~ NOT ~ lol.
I wondered about evening shade maybe. What? is going on in that picture? Not sure what you mean. It does look goofy with the bud sticking up behind the bloom ~ doesn't it? Weepy though!
Are you going to insist we start sticking to the subject?.....sure hope not.
That would be turning over a new leaf ~ LOL
Anna....The markers, LOL! Kind of like mine that said "Bare Naked Ladies", LOL!
Cracks me up!
Sheila,that is really funny!!! I really did laugh out loud! Do you have a picture of the FLOWER?
Podster, yes I was referring to the bud. I wasn't sure what it was. Kind of looked like something was flying.
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Not sure who gave them to me in a trade. But they haven't bloomed for me so I don't have a picture. Here is a link in PF that may be them. I think the person added the "bare" lol!
I remember someone saying they called them 'Resurrection Lilies". But the bulbs I were given had 'bare naked ladies' on it.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/517/
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