Photos of My Daylilies
Here are pictures of most of the daylilies I grow. Some of them have not bloomed for me yet! I will try to keep adding my new daylilies as I get their pretty faces on film. I hope these beauties can serve as an inspiration for all those daylily collectors out there!

Click here to see daylilies with names starting with:
A-D       E-H      I-L       M-P       Q-Z

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Look What I Found!!

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Isn't he the cutest thing ever??  I know, I know... they eat stuff, as in my garden stuff, but he was so darned cute!  I had to just put him back in his nest.  Awww... so cute, and he was so soft and happy to be cuddled!  I was surprised that he was not skittish at all.  Not a daylily, but just as good to look at! 

Friday, March 25, 2011

Winter Losses...

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Well, I guess here is a good place to cry about my winter losses.  I had some new acquisitions, transplants  and seedlings in pots from last fall.  This past winter, we had the longest, coldest stretch in Texas history since, well, forever.  This spring, when the weather warmed up, and the daylilies started poking up again, I was really bummed to find quite a few didn't make it through.  Here is the list:


Beachin' Babe
Beauty Of His Grace
Born To Run
Blue Eyed Angel
Cerulean Warbler
TET Crystal Blue Persuasion
Heavenly Mansions
Mississippi Blues
Moments Rich In Blessing
Moonlight Sail
Plum Eyed Delight
Precious Candy
Purple Pajamas
Shores Of Time
Standing On The Promise
West Texas Windmill

All of them had just simply turned to mush.  It was strange, but there were still some solid storage roots all the way at the bottom of the pot, but the rest of the root system leading up to them, including the crowns were just spongy, mushy, bad smelling (don't you HATE that smell??), muck.

Ah, well... I planted some new seedlings, and I will try to replace a few of these since I got them for hybridizing.

Now off to study a bit for my Calculus test later today!!  Ack, can you see my diversions??  LOL.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

2011 Crosses

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Well, there were a few seeds in the fridge that just wouldn't stay any longer!  Their radicles were poking out and getting so long, I couldn't put off planting a few of them... This year, I am SO busy with school, that my hybridizing has really been put on the back burner.  I managed to repot all of last years seedlings and start getting them ready to go out in my new bed (to be finished next week!), and a few seeds planted for a VERY SMALL 2011 crop.  Mostly, the few seedlings will be something to keep me from feeling like I have totally given up!  :o)

Here is what I planted today!!

DIPLOIDS
CARIBBEAN TWILIGHT TIME x BARN OWL
PINK FLIRT x EMMA TOMLINSON MCHUGH

TETRAPLOIDS
HEAVEN'S DECLARING x LUCID MOMENT
BALLERINA BEAUTIFUL x S.C. SURPRISE PURPLE
WEST COAST BLUES x BLUE HIPPO
GILLIAN x BLUE HIPPO


I'll try to come back and put in pictures of the crosses....