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'Silent Sentry'


'Silent Sentry'

Last year, this didn't bloom for the first time until the fall. Here it is, all settled in and opening in the early spring.



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stunning

28 Mar, 2016

 

This is described as "purple", but every photo I have seen and having seen it live, it is brick red. At least it is opening really well for this early in the year.

29 Mar, 2016

 

Beautiful!
Can't wait for Daylily season here, mine are going to get a mulch this afternoon, Robs just fetched a huge trailer load of the most amazing well rotted (5 years )horse manure from a friends so I'll be barrowing it round the garden for the next week :-)

31 Mar, 2016

 

In the first group of seedlings I planted out, I put down a thick layer of leaf mulch that came from the chipper/shredder, and it is amazing how big they are already. I think there will be a lot of first year blooms this fall :) Today, another 60 are in the ground, bringing the total so far to 194, and there are about 30 more to go in.
Also, in 2-3 weeks I should get a shipment from Eurocallis which will include Sebastian the Crab, Jungle Queen, Aztec Art, Marseilles Watercolor, Firefly Frenzy and Cactus Jack.

31 Mar, 2016

 

Sebastian the Crab

what a cracker of a name from the little Mermaid

reminds me of my "Fashion Leader" 2003

off to have a nose

Interesting.........

which I have just checked and both have the same parents AHS site

Parentage: (Ruffled Ruckus × Fluttering Beauty)
also the colour is the same as well apricot cream self above lime green throat ?

31 Mar, 2016

 

Jan Joiner has 6 registered doubles with the same parents and 12 with Ruffled Ruckus as pod parent. Feminine Fingers (RR × FB) is pink. All part of the natural variations daylilies produce.

31 Mar, 2016

 

These are all evergreen Lillies right? Bloom most- maybe all- the year?.

1 Apr, 2016

 

Sorry, but I dislike the word "Lily". These are in the Xanthorrhoeaceae family, sub-family Hemerocallidoideae; the Lily is in the Liliaceae family. (It's all very similar to what an Amaryllis is and what people call an Amaryllis).
Silent Sentry is a semi-evergreen type, and during the winter will neither loose all its leaves nor put on new growth. That is all subject to change, depending where it is grown and how severe the winter is. I do have evergreen types that bloom all year round, so I am rarely without a flower of some sort.

1 Apr, 2016

 

Oh Wow!! they are all lovely Wylie especially like Aztec Art, Marseilles Watercolor and Cactus Jack, stunning!

1 Apr, 2016

 

These are used in Botany classes-lol. I remember that. I guess they make it easy to see what makes a flower a flower.

2 Apr, 2016

 

I had some seeds a couple of years ago that had Sebastian the Crab and Firefly Frenzy as one of the parents, so I know they perform well. Now that I have some really nice patterned DIPs like Super Fancy Face and Crystal Blue Persuasion, I can go for patterned doubles - I would say like Cactus Jack, but that is a TET.

2 Apr, 2016



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