Hi everyone, I'm looking at this daylily on the Lily Auction. Does anyone grow it and if so, is it a good parent??

Thanks Mona

hi mona! i dont have this one so sorry i cannot advise -- but it is pretty!

If you're looking at this: http://daylily.com/cgi-bin/auc..., that picture is super saturated. It's not going to bloom that blue. This looks more true w/o the blue saturation (the picture was photoshopped) http://woostergarden.blogspot....

You can tell #1 the picture was shopped as it's a generic picture found on Google:
http://www.daylilies.org/Dayli...
http://smokeysdaylilygardens.c...

You can also tell by how green the leaves are. They supersaturated it with blue and lowered the red.

Off of this website: http://patrickguidry.com/new-i...


I tinkered with it a little using XNView (I don't have Photoshop)


I'm not saying don't buy it. But I've learned the hard way to double check every image to make sure that it's not tinkered with! And when you Google it and see too many images that don't look like what you're buying...

I don't have this plant either (sorry, I know you want first-hand responses), but one way to see if a cultivar is fertile, or a great parent, is to see if and how many child plants it has had over the years. Dragonfly Blues has one child plant, and it was only registered in 2010, so at least it is likely fertile. Two years is fairly quick after an introduction, so there may be more child plants down the line.

The Guidry website is a great place to go. No photoshop there.

Thanks everyone!!!! That's the kind of information that I'm looking for. I do always check this site and AHS for child plants. Sometimes there are more on one than the other. I'm looking for a few etched eye ones to add to my group.

I have got "Get Jiggy" coming from Maryotts.

I've also got:
Stenciled Impressions
Jamaican Love
Aztec Headdress seedling that one is actually Beige and the other is orange. I used these a bunch this year.
Then lets, see,
Lillian's Alabama Sunrise
Lillian's Clockwork Orange(again, not etched but it is so pretty!!)
Lies and Lipstick(really not etched, but I love the colors)
Barbie's Favorite x Jelly Maker sdlg that's good, but not great
Mildred Mitchell(A beautiful blue eye on mine)
I bought a few seeds with "Affirmative" as one parent.
I really want "Dragonfly Dawn" and I'm probably going to try to get it.

If anyone has a recommendation, I'd sure appreciate it.
Thanks bunches, Mona

Get Dragonfly Dawn. It is very fertile both ways and different every day, but always beautiful.

Dot

Cute!~!!

Hey Mona,

Dragonfly Dawn is definitely a winner. As Dot said it is very fertile. It has been already and will be by others later this fall on the lily auction so just add it to your want list.