Some random daylily pics

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jul 09, 2005 12:29 pm

I had to go out and get a few shots of my daylilies this year. They are just spectacular this year, in spite of our drought and heat. I have somewhere over 70 varieties, most of them I've lost the names. I got a lot of them from a grower who took his overstock to a flea market. They were named varieties, but I didn't keep all the names. Lots of the others came from Hornbaker gardens in Princeton. I CAN'T buy any more daylilies, so I've got to post my pics and get the heck out of Dodge...my resistance is toooooo low!
Linda P

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jul 09, 2005 12:32 pm

Oh geepers! 70? Hmmmmmmm...I imagine one day I could dig up the back acre or so and take some of those off your hands, so you could try newer varieties!

They are beautiful, all of them.

But you can't leave till you post all 70, k?

JaneG · Post by **JaneG** » Jul 09, 2005 5:20 pm

Lovely!

I like the mixture in the second pic.

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jul 09, 2005 5:50 pm

Here are a couple more. Sorry, Jane...I don't have pics of all 70 of them. I suppose I should really try someday to do that, eh?
Linda P

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Jul 09, 2005 8:09 pm

They are all beautiful, Linda!

Once I figured out the correct spelling (Cimarron, I must have typed it incorrectly the first time I tried), I found it at Tinker's Gardens Daylily Database. Here is the info on it.

LORD RP+EL, 1938, Height 48", EM, Evergreen, Medium Yellow Orange with EZ

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jul 09, 2005 9:03 pm

Ooooooh! That Cimarron is a pretty one! The other has a red back? Interesting, anyway you can show that?

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jul 10, 2005 11:21 am

Thanks, Pat. I'm not entirely sure that is the one I have, but it could be. It's a very bright orange, but I don't know if I'd call it a yellow orange.
I'll have to get a pic of the backside of Havanna Moon....(now there's a mental image...moon...backside..

). It's not quite as dark this year as usual, which I'm thinking may be related to our lack of moisture, but it is still visible. It's in a part of the garden that I haven't watered at all.
Drat it all, I knew I shouldn't even have come over here. I keep telling myself that I have more daylilies than anyone ever needs, and I love every one of them, but then I look at all the pics and find it hard to resist adding more.

Linda P

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jul 10, 2005 11:29 am

Someone told me it's okay to be obsessed? Are you saying it isn't?

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jul 10, 2005 11:45 am

Obsession is perfectly fine in my book. However, I am already at the limits of my ability to keep up with what I have now! So, Jane, when are you coming over with your shovel?? You don't even have to plan a midnight raid, just waltz over in broad daylight. Some of these clumps of daylilies are 8 or 10 years old or more, and they are really getting huge. Some of my friends (people from the 'old days' when our kids were small) were over for iced tea last week, they hadn't been here for at least 8 years, and one kept saying "Are these daylilies really old? How did they get so big?".
Linda P

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » Jul 11, 2005 12:00 am

All beauties! In the first group pic, is that an all white one in the back?

I didn't think there was a pure white hem.

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jul 11, 2005 8:14 am

OED, that's an asiatic that snuck into the picture. Sure would be great if it was a hem! I have an unkown near-white, but I'm not sure what it is. I have Ice Carnival on my list, but that's not it because I know that one died. I have Moon Frolic on my list as a 'cream' color, and I also have 'white' possibly Gentle Shepherd? on my list., I made this list in 96, so it's hard telling what it actually is. I can't remember back that far...

Linda P