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OK, I have hogged the thread enough this morning....
your turn.
Hugs....

Wow Sharran..fabulous daylillies..you must have been collecting for a long time...Hundreds???

I am drawn to the dark ones right now..but I have some yellow, peach, and orange..
This is the last one I bought. (Sultan's magic) The end of July there is an open house at Hayfield Daylilies which is close to me. Henry Lorrain is the breeder.

I enjoyed the photos so much Sharon.

Lovely, Carol.
Actually I began my collection in the 80's, then ignored it while the children were growing up, and came back to it maybe about 8 years ago. My first ones are the ones you see above just before the moon flower bush, they were from my uncle's Louisville garden.('81) The red one was about as dark as you could get in those days, particularly around this area.

So most of them have been added since about 2000. I decided since the new millenium (Y2K) didn't wipe us out, I might as well grow daylilies! the best thing about it is that at the end of the season if there are any tubers laying around in the nursery that is close to my house, instead of throwing them away, my nursery guy drops them off at my house, and the next year I have a surprise color when it blooms.
Fun.

I try not to have to many yellow-orange flowers or orange flowers as they get on my nerves if that makes sense. I think they are pretty but one year I had alot and didn't like that flower bed at all and tore them all out. It was a good lesson for me as now it is easier to get rid of one if it is not working for me.

So I stick to all the other colors with a little splash of orange. that's one thing I like about daylillies is they come in all colors.

Sharran that painting looks like a real flower if you don't enlarge it!

One year I bought a mixed pack from Walmart. this is one of them. From having just the ditch lillies I never realized how thick and waxy feeling the petals could be on daylillies. That pkg. opened my eyes to Daylillies.

That is a beautiful gold one, Vicki. It reminds me of my yellow, Mary Todd Lincoln....one of the few that I know the name of. I have a gorgeous lemony lime colored one, but I haven't found a pic of it. It is a new one that was a leftover from my nursery guy a couple summers ago, so it has not spread much yet. Anyway, it is a lovely pale pale yellow. I am also not really fond of too much orange or yellow, though the yellows look good in groups.

Oh my how lovely to keep coming back today.

What are ditch lillies?
I remember seeing your painting...It is awsom, so real looking I just want to smell it.

Are Hibiscus fairly easy to grow? I love the look of them.

Carol and Ves very pretty Day Lillies. The colors are splendid.

Betty, I have one Ornemental Lily, I just love it

Judy, years ago orange single petaled daylilies were all you could get, and they grew wild alongside country roads. Those are the typical ditch lilies. Now they are bred in many many colors, nearly everything exept blue, and now the specialists are working on blue!

I forgot to mention I want to start growing a hibiscus this year. So that will be a first for me. Most of my daylillies range from 1 year to 4 years. So should be getting more blooms this year.

I think I might be expanding this flowerbed. It is my red one. Mainly plant red flowers in it with white and yellow for accent. I don't think it will be a raised expansion. I must be nuts to even consider doing it. But if I want more plants it has to be done. this was taken last spring.

Hibiscus are easy, I started one from seed, one from bare root, and one that my nursery guy rejected, (the one above that is huge, he'll probably want it back!!)

Hibiscus need more water than daylilies, but otherwise, about the same. The hibiscus has more of a woody stem than the daylily.

Ves....OH! I want those rocks...... that will be/is a lovely bed.

Sharran we have rock piles we raid. we call spring rock pickin time. I love to dig thru the rock piles lookin for the perfect rocks!

Vicki..love the garden you are working on..how adorable...

In one of the magazines I'll looking through they had an old dresser..imagine I've one in the back shed, so as soon as spring comes I'll be planting it...

now for bulb or tubes..how can you tell when you purchase them in a container..drats, should have paid more attention to the tag..I'll now be anxious...

OK, turn the light on, I am on my way!!!!!


Ed: Talking to Ves, here, but if you have a lily nursery, Betty, you might need to turn your light on for me, too.

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Vicki, when I was travelling to Meaford there was a quarry of slate, here my girlfriend and I were all dressed up, climbing on the rock pile probably 30' high, digging for that special slate..lol..found some wonderful pieces..were going to paint them, looking closer you could see the fosils grown and embedded..there went that idea..now have them as outdoor decor...

Shar..it's a biggy..acres and acres..will have to get the site for you...

Forgot to post the gazebo my brother did using a satelite dish..he took mesh of because he's going to put steel on it and then is going to put latice mid point up so Charlene (sil) can plan flowers and have an entrance...now he tells me that if I find the fibreglass ones I won't have to deal with roofing the unit..what do you think..?

You should see my DH and I. Dressed like bums. He is on the 4 wheeler with the trailer and I am walking. He knows where all the piles are and is breaking trail in the woods for us to get to them. In 30 plus years it has grown up quite a bit around some of them. It is so much fun!

Betty I would of loved to be there with you. If I ever buy a lotto ticket and win I am coming for a visit! so beware everyone!

That gazebo is going to be really nice! I want some kind of place to sit down by the pond. Have to wait and see how wet it stays over the summer.

lol that's why Vicki I keep purchasing them..what a bonus..to purchase an R.V. pack my bags start at the north east coast and start visiting till I hit Key West, come north till I hit Canada Border go west young lady and do the western coast...omg what fun that would be..24 million tomorrow night .. let's hope

Now tonight is t.v. bingo..maybe I'll win the $2,000. now how far would that get me????

I'm going to build it not far from my pond...I've all kinds of sitting areas, lovely to look at, but I never sit, on my own, can you tell me why I need them???

waaaaaaaa..... sob.......sob..... seed you made me cry!!!! huge hugs to you my garden angel....... I cant see the key board! lol waaaaaaaa......... my DH just came in and asked me what was wrong, i told him that an angel paid for me to stay here and he was so touched, he said he was so grateful that i have the friends i do here and what a difference they make to my day, so from both of us, thankyou.

well i guess you can guess what my best today is then! and im not going to have a worst! lol on a high all day.

gosh those flowers are amazing!! the colours are beautiful! shar your garden must be amazing.... at the moment we concentrate on ferns and orchids and tropical type plants in our fernery. i have a creeping rose, a carpet rose by the name of 'old world' that grows over the arbour over the drive way that was grown from a cutting of a bush that was 100 years old! when its next in flower i will take a pic and post it.
we didnt get much of a yeild of orchids this year due to the drought but they seem to be looking ok at the moment. we have really been nursing them to try and get them through the drought. they say the drought should break soon, lets hope so.

betty i cant believe the clothes you made, is there nothing you cant do?!

well i am off to have a GREAT day....

x

Wonder,
I'm happy that Judy was your "garden angel". That was so kind of her.

Betty..love what your brother has done with the gazebo..especially the curved arches in each section.
Betty I think your lily may be the Oriental type. They are the ones that have a wonderful frgrance.

Daylilies generally don't have a lot of fragrance. Also Oriental lilies have lots of short side leaves on a tall stalk..daylilies are on a stem of their own and the leaves are long and all come form the bottom.

Ves..lots of room for you to expand there..

Sharon..thanks for telling us all about your love of daylilies and how it all got started.

These are Oriental lilies in my garden.

Best a lazy day spent on DG.

No worst yet

What did I learn.I like lazy days spent on DG

Beautiful Orientals, Carol. You do have such a lovely yard/lawn/garden.

Yep, Vicki, it was fun....but you all should know better than to ask me a question, I can talk for hours if I know what I am talking about. If you asked me about orchids, I couldn't tell you a thing.

Happy for you, Wonder. We do have a lot of angels on this thread.

Thanks for all the lessons on the difference between a Daylily and an Oriental lily! I never knew that!!! I just hope I can remember....
The Daylilies I have are: bright orange, lovely pink and the dark red ones with the yellow centers. Then i have the Easter Lilies and the (Oh--I forget the name...) the fragrant pink ones you get around Mother's Day ????. Having a "senior moment"!

Sharran--Did you know there was a true blue Poppy? The picture is from my trip to Homer. Alaska in 2006. I had never seen one!!!

Gita

Here's a blazing planing of orange Daylilies along the street.

But----What I truly fell in love with was these amazingly fragrant "Rugosa Roses" they all call the "Sitka Rose". They grow wild along the roadsides and also around buildings.

There is a controversy that this is NOT the true Sitka Rose, but a transplant from Russia in years past. I don't care!!!!! The fragrance will knock you over! I even pulled up some starts and took some cuttings and hand-carried them in a sack with wet paper towels (over 6 days of 100* heat) and when I finally got home, I planted them, lovingly, in some pots to root. Well--they NEVER made it! I guess the 6 days did them in! Besides--there is a HUGE difference in out climates from here to AK!

So! This is the picture of "My Love!!!"

Here is a picture of the TRUE Sitka Rose. It is a single-petaled, pink Rose. It can also be a single-petaled deep pink/magenta Rose. Still fragrant, but not as deeply as the double.

And----off the topic of plants----for those of you that may soon ask--NO! I have NOT yet had any form of response!!!! But! It has only been 7 business days since I mailed my letter! I know it seems longer--but it is not!

Gita

Lovely blue poppy, Gita, and no, I didn't know they had made a blue poppy. I must look for that one.

Gita, are your orange lilies daylilies?

They must be a new species, I have never seen any quite like that, they look more like a cross between an Oriental and a daylily than either of the two. The three top petals on a traditional daylily are more prominent, and usually have a deeper coloration. The throat color is also predominantly on the 3 top petals, and they are generally bigger in width than the bottom 3 petals.

WOW, those are beautiful, and I'll bet they are eyecatchers. I am going to look for them, too. The coloration is amazing.

I told you all to not get me started on something that I love. I can talk forever about daylilies. OK, no more talk about daylilies, I promise. Lips are sealed.

Lips sealed....

ummmmm....gita.........ummmmummm.....letter............um um um......
bridesma.............ummmmummmmmm....fuschia....ummmm....

Shar,

Those Orange Daylilies are also from my trip to Alaska. NOT from my garden!

I DO have orange Daylilies in my garden! Or--Are they Oriental Lilies????? Now I have to see what kind of leaves they have.

Here are the ones I have.

And--here are the pink ones.

These are the deep red ones I dug up from my neighbor's yard last Spring. There was no one living in the house already for a year! She moved into an Assisted Living place.
The daughters had NO interest in anything to do with gardening, so--I dug them up because I loved them! I divided them all (yes! there were corms!) and planted them in 2 different places in my garden.

I am so looking forward to these blooming. They bloom later in the Spring. Almost in early Summer. Do you know the name of these?????

Beautiful orange and pink are oriental lilies,
the wonderful reds that you rescued are daylilies, I am not sure of the name of that one, but it is very similar to the one I have above...the oldest red one. I don't have the name of it either, but I love it and yours.

the brilliant reds were the ones that got me so hooked on daylilies.

don't ask me anything else.....I can't keep my mouth shut when you ask me something.

I am trying so hard to shut up.

Gita..I didn't know there was a blue poppy either..what an amazing colour.

I am thinking your pink and deep orange lilies are the Asiatic type..which have similar leaves to Orientals but don't grow as tall, nor do they have the magnificent fragrance of Orientals..and they usually bloom earlier than Orientals.

Have I completely confused you all yet? LOL

This is one of my Asiatic lilies ..name is Crimson Pixie.

Carol, I am so glad you know the difference in Oriental and Asiatic. I have to be right upon them and have them both together and still sometimes I am not sure. I guess if I had some, I might learn, but only have 2 white ones that I think someone gave me for Easter years ago.

My daylilies have always been so undemanding and I guess that is why I prefer them.

Crimson Pixie is lovely, but then i adore all the reds.

HAHAHA-No don't shut up! You are a good teacher! I have learned quite alot today.
...here is my two cents, hope I am right. Day Lillies have long leaves with a long stem wich holds the flower. Orientals have many small leaves the grow off the stem and flower from a pod at top.

had to giggle out loud at your trying not to tmmmmmk.

Wonder, so glad you had HAPPY tears. Always glad to help a friend when I can. So you just keep coming to our garden here. We miss you when your not.

Gita, wow you have some wonderful photos....um, I look pretty good in pinks..wink, wink.

Oh my I am falling behind on some posts. Well guess I will just have to try and keep up.

I had another extremely busy and quite aggrevating day on the job front. So it was really wonderful to share Ves's Lazy day with DG. Read while I worked.

Ves, the space that you will enlarge is going to great! will you go around the tree? I love how you and DH collected all the stone. I go to the lake and get my stones. And every now and again i yank one from where it is I am...LOL if I like it, it comes home with me. Once we were Traveling in Michigan and right there in the middle of this field I saw a wonderful boulder. Thought outloud how grand it would be in the garden...DH gave me one of his famous no way looks. Well just my luck he had to run in a little store and wouldn't you know that boulder jumped right in the back of the van!!
heheh, I smiled the rest of the trip and didn't say a thing. When we got home DH wanted to know how it got there...LOL shrugged shoulder and said dunno it must have followed me. Well there it sits in my dry creek bed...

Well got go check my door, back later.

Just got home, stopped in Barrie to shop and then as the plowman came I did the back walkway and will save the front for tomorrow..amazing how much snow we got yesterday and today..guess the boys will be snowmobiling this weekend...they'll be happy..

Kyle couldn't come tonight so I bantered back and forth with myself wether or not to play 'tv bingo' well I've got my cards, must organize myself for the 8pm game..then I'll be back to post...

Gita you should have seen me gasp when I saw the red lilies..all of the lilies infact but love the 'red'ones..and no I 've never seen the blue poppy..must be rare...

Can't you tell we've all got cabin fever...boy oh boy, spring better come soon..please/please/please...

Glad your home Betty,
Forgot to mention about the Gazeebo! So nice to recycle something of that gradure...My gosh who would have thought...Now did you say you have one too? What a great project.

Nice that the boys can use the snowmobiles...woohoo hope they have a ball! LOL rode one once when I was young..(ER) Loved it.

No gazebo yet..planned for the spring..I had a snowmobile since I was 20..the past 2 years really is the only time I've not had one..gave it to Jeff and he traded it in on new one..so just have to say I want one for the day/weekend and it's mine - minus the cost..lol

Can't go anywhere girls..didn't win at t.v. bingo..but then I was reading gardening magazines while dabbing the numbers...

Going to post..tired tonight - been a long day..but tomorrow I'll have 8 hours to gab as I finished the project Paul left me to do..so watch out..

Best...just dropping in to see your beauties and feel the excitement that was in the air...you are all coming alive with spring not far from us...and, while shopping tonight ran into a girl I recognized from school..hadn't seen her 42 years...I recognized her but she didn't know who I was..could it be the extra 40lbs I'm carrying...

Worse..was no worse today..everything went, as dear hubby used to say 'tickytiboo' (?) should have asked him to spell it..

What did I learn...that I have to stop hanging out for breaks/lunches with Suzanne she loves food and I'm showing it..need to diet badly..not because of my chance meeting today, just generally..I guess I'm too contented..isn't that what they say brings on the extra lbs.....hmm

Everyone, I so loved looking at all the flowers..bringing more magazines and will have questions pertaining to the lilies tomorrow...I'm sure I'm going to dream of being in a garden tonight..if so, hope you are all there with me...