Damn thought I'd cracked it Pam lol, there are so many peachy doubles I'd hate to make a guess, Kwanso's quite a distinct one so easy to identify,look forward to your pictures when it flowers.
I use a couple of databases to search plants but you need a name or the start of one the AHS Daylily database and Tinkersgardens Daylily database if its registered it'll be on those, great sites tells you height, flower size, hybriser everything you need to know about each plant, even the offspring, love looking at varieties I have for ideas of what to cross to make interesting plants, yes I'm very sad lol, a nice hobby for the winter months though.
Yviestevie I love some of the names my favourite of the ones I have is 'Slipped my Disco' wonder where that came from !!
Jennie I know you can eat the flowers but never tried them, can't bring myself to pull their heads off
Kathy your daylilies are beautiful, so many lovely colours. Thank you for the information on when to sow the seeds, I will wait till February to sow them and just hope I can do it right. Thanks again. xx
Oh I want to keep them all chicky,I'm still new to growing from seed, its only really my second year with seedling flowers, except for the one from my first failed attempt, I really need to be more ruthless or space will quickly run out, they can take 3 year from start of flowering to show their full potential though so don't want to be to hasty, the flower size on some have increased by up to 2inches from last year, some look better some not as good its really hard, then of course there's bud count ones that don't produce many buds aren't garden worthy plants really, now know why so many new intros are so expensive its the time put into growing so many for the very few good ones, one day I'll register one
Lorna just give me a shout if you need any advice, I'll sort those seeds this weekend
Here are a few more of my seedlings, the first really dark one is the one survivor from my first attempt, I'll always keep this one, its even been moved into the garden, a cross of 'Star of Fantasy' x 'Iktomi', the rest are from 'Octopus Hugs' X 'Helix' the orange has increased in size this year from 7.5inch to 9!, looks too much like one of its parents to register but I don't have one like it , my favourite is the last red UFO of course that only had 3 buds! but this year is its first year flowering so see how it is next year.
They look stunning Kathy. Do you enter them your local garden competitions?
As a matter of interest, at what stage do you clean up the old leaves on yours? I purposely left mine for longer than usual this year after something Monty said about leaving them. They are more unsightly than the snowflakes, but of course, I understand the need for them to have the chance to regenerate and also for protection from frost.
These are the ones I separated out from the others and they have been out there all winter, through frost and a few snowflakes. They've only recently poked their heads up.
I do have some colour in the garden, though. This is Iris unguicularis. A pretty mauve flash quietly appearing where you don't expect to see colour.
Thanks Lorna , I'll message you this evening going out for the day in a bit.
I don't Pat no we don't really have a lot of gardening competitions here.
I clear all the dead foliage off the dormant types at the end of September, its usually completely dead and pulls away without cutting by then I also remove dead foliage on the semi evergreens, the evergreens I leave till early spring by which time its starting to look a bit tatty so I cut to the ground new foliage re appears very quickly, so if your leaves are green I'd leave till spring.
Crikey that's one heck of a clump wow! and what a fantastic view, you even have kangaroos? in your garden!! is that a good or bad thing?
I think I have that iris someone was giving some away on the allotment last year mine hasn't flowered yet though, very pretty.
A few more pictures , these are of some of my named small and miniature varieties (flower size 4.5inches or less) some of these are so pretty with multi coloured eyes.
From the top All American Baby,Carpathian Cavalier, Changing Latitudes, Dragon Dreams,Cosmic Hummingbird,Forty Second Street and last but not least Handsome Dylan.
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This is getting interesting! Until I can get mine to flowering stage, I'm sorry I haven't got any photos.
Damn thought I'd cracked it Pam lol, there are so many peachy doubles I'd hate to make a guess, Kwanso's quite a distinct one so easy to identify,look forward to your pictures when it flowers.
I use a couple of databases to search plants but you need a name or the start of one the AHS Daylily database and Tinkersgardens Daylily database if its registered it'll be on those, great sites tells you height, flower size, hybriser everything you need to know about each plant, even the offspring, love looking at varieties I have for ideas of what to cross to make interesting plants, yes I'm very sad lol, a nice hobby for the winter months though.
Yviestevie I love some of the names my favourite of the ones I have is 'Slipped my Disco' wonder where that came from !!
Jennie I know you can eat the flowers but never tried them, can't bring myself to pull their heads off
I could never be a breeder Kathy - I'd want to keep all the ones in your photos
Kathy your daylilies are beautiful, so many lovely colours. Thank you for the information on when to sow the seeds, I will wait till February to sow them and just hope I can do it right. Thanks again. xx
Oh I want to keep them all chicky,I'm still new to growing from seed, its only really my second year with seedling flowers, except for the one from my first failed attempt, I really need to be more ruthless or space will quickly run out, they can take 3 year from start of flowering to show their full potential though so don't want to be to hasty, the flower size on some have increased by up to 2inches from last year, some look better some not as good its really hard, then of course there's bud count ones that don't produce many buds aren't garden worthy plants really, now know why so many new intros are so expensive its the time put into growing so many for the very few good ones, one day I'll register one
Lorna just give me a shout if you need any advice, I'll sort those seeds this weekend
Here are a few more of my seedlings, the first really dark one is the one survivor from my first attempt, I'll always keep this one, its even been moved into the garden, a cross of 'Star of Fantasy' x 'Iktomi', the rest are from 'Octopus Hugs' X 'Helix' the orange has increased in size this year from 7.5inch to 9!, looks too much like one of its parents to register but I don't have one like it
, my favourite is the last red UFO of course that only had 3 buds! but this year is its first year flowering so see how it is next year.
Kathy, Thanks for the offer on the advice, I think I will be taking you up on that.
Your flowers are beautiful, I love the second photo the red and yellow flower, you have quiet a collection and so many lovely colours in them.xx
They look stunning Kathy. Do you enter them your local garden competitions?
As a matter of interest, at what stage do you clean up the old leaves on yours? I purposely left mine for longer than usual this year after something Monty said about leaving them. They are more unsightly than the snowflakes, but of course, I understand the need for them to have the chance to regenerate and also for protection from frost.
These are the ones I separated out from the others and they have been out there all winter, through frost and a few snowflakes. They've only recently poked their heads up.
I do have some colour in the garden, though. This is Iris unguicularis. A pretty mauve flash quietly appearing where you don't expect to see colour.
Dug up some photos - sorry about quality.
First is my ordinary daylilles - through bedroom window. Bottom left.
Second, after pruning old leaves - bottom right of photo.
Thanks Lorna
, I'll message you this evening going out for the day in a bit.
I don't Pat no we don't really have a lot of gardening competitions here.
I clear all the dead foliage off the dormant types at the end of September, its usually completely dead and pulls away without cutting by then I also remove dead foliage on the semi evergreens, the evergreens I leave till early spring by which time its starting to look a bit tatty so I cut to the ground new foliage re appears very quickly, so if your leaves are green I'd leave till spring.
Crikey that's one heck of a clump wow! and what a fantastic view, you even have kangaroos? in your garden!! is that a good or bad thing?
I think I have that iris someone was giving some away on the allotment last year mine hasn't flowered yet though, very pretty.
A few more pictures
, these are of some of my named small and miniature varieties (flower size 4.5inches or less) some of these are so pretty with multi coloured eyes.
From the top All American Baby,Carpathian Cavalier, Changing Latitudes, Dragon Dreams,Cosmic Hummingbird,Forty Second Street and last but not least Handsome Dylan.