Daylilies 1

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My daylilies have really woken up:

This is one of 4 areas where I have them, and since it has been several days since the last big winds have come through, it has recovered.

‘Neighborhood Watcher’ is one that I registered last year, and is the last of my named daylilies to start blooming.

This polymerous one is ’Tomorrow’s Song’ and is a 9" spider type. Not one of mine, but I am trying to use it.

This is from the first batch of seeds I started and even though I lost the tag with its parentage and it doesn’t repeat its blooms, I still really like it and have kept it.

To make this one, I crossed ‘Golden Tentacles’ with ‘Free Wheelin’. Neither parent is an applique, but it has come out that way.

I have 2 seedlings of this cross of Marked by Lydia x Clairvoyant Lady. The other one is an applique and this one has a feathered effect in the eye. At 6" across, it really gets attention.

This is Crystal Blue Persuasion x Galaxy Explosion. It is starting to get the pinched ends of the petals that it had last year. This year it is about an inch larger, but has kept its brownish orange petals with reddish brown eye above a yellow throat. It looks more like Galaxy Explosion, but is evergreen instead of dormant. That means earlier blooms that repeat.

These 2 photos are of the same plant, but a year apart. It has increased in size and now has twisted crispate sepals. There was even a slight color change, which is why you have to wait around 4 years before registering. You never know what they will settle into. It is Frog’s Eye x Whale Tails.

New this year, this is (Amber Rhum x Kazoo) x Michigan Nikki. It has a very defined band in red, but no sign of the bubbled edge I was hoping for from Michigan Nikki.
With lots and lots of scapes, next month will be peak season for me, and then all the reblooms.

• 24 Apr, 2018
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