Oooo guess what?! Everyone can easily propose a forum thread photo to be directly reviewed for inclusion in the database. Its a great way to get images that are already uploaded to ATP through forums to a place in the system where they are preserved and protected forever, and will help those who are using the database to search for a plant. Here is an edited version of Dave's post about it:

Click on the image in the forum thread and that opens it to a full-sized image. At the bottom of the full-sized image is a link that will say, "Import to Database." Click it, and if the picture is already in the database it will tell you that. If not, it will ask the name of the plant and pull up a list of possible matches. Select the matching plant entry and this creates a proposal that will be reviewed by the moderators. If approved, you get half an acorn and the owner of the image gets 1 acorn. The owner of the image is, of course, fully credited/copyright protected as the owner of the image just the same as when they submit it directly to the database themselves. Your help just gives their photo a nudge in the right direction!

The thread "Tutorial: how to import a photo from the forums over to the database" in Plant Database forum

These reds are all so gorgeous. Just WOW!!! Don't have many myself, and am gonna change that
after seeing these. Love the Wild Wookie. Haven't seen it before either. Have a few photos to share if I can find them
in the external hard drive or on disk.

The leaves are changing here also, and we are expecting frost tonight. The altitude here is
higher than that of surrounding areas, so it is more than probable for this garden.

Sounds very easy to do Tina. Thanks!!!

Cherokee Star (Santa Lucia, 1995) height 32in (81cm), bloom 6in (15.0cm), season MLa, Dormant, Tetraploid, Cerise red self with yellow-green throat. (Latin Passion × Tet. Big Apple)

This is the brightest red that I have ever seen

Beautiful, Ed!

It does well, here, too.

Beautiful!!!

Ohhhh, you are so bad for me Ed - I have a lot of reds, and may just have to put that on my ever growing "list"

I have a lot of reds, and in 2013 two of them outdid themself. Holly Dancer


and Best In Class. This flower is actually more red, and less orange-y than it shows in the picture.


~Jan

Ed, thanks for reviving this thread, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it. Brightened up my day.
Mama's Cherry Pie


Valentine Greetings... from "Spunky"


Sky King


Prairie Wildfire


Beaucatcher Mountain


Francis Of Assisi


Red Hill


Illini Jackpot


Chicago Apache


Carmine Monarch


Red Volunteer


Red Hot Returns


Vivid Heart


Bloodline


Rocket Booster


Woodside Ruby





Forsyth White Buds


Spacecoast Hot Topic

There are so many variations in red - from bluish red, a scarlet red, to a rosy red. Curt Hanson always told me that one of the best reds out there is Bill Fall from Van Sellers. Van's ALL AMERICAN CHIEF is an amazing pure red, to my eye. One of my favorite reds is POINT OF VIEW from Sanford Roberts. The red is a like a red light signal red, pure and gorgeous!




For a rosy red, I like Curt's PEOPLES PLEASURE PARK.



And how about Dale Thomas' APACHE WAR DANCE, this late bloomer is more scarlet red.

Here is another link that go way back in regards to reds.
The thread "Your Five Favorite Reds?" in Daylilies forum

This thread has gone wild! So many beautiful reds, I can't begin to choose favorites.

Here are some reds that I have. Not sure if they fall under the category of "true red", but I love them all. Did not realize that I had so few that I would consider red.

Apple Tart


Fever-new for me last summer


God Is Listening - described as a cherry red, but I would not describe it as sun-fast.


Mexican Art


Ruby Spider - love this one.


Uncle Bryan

Like 'em all, Vickie.

Thanks, Debra!

I actually have a bed that I call my "red bed"

Not all of my reds are in there, even then, it seems to "enlarge" almost every year or so

So glad you pulled this thread up Ed! Starved for color now the grey days of Nov have set in. Thanks for making my day Here's a few more favorites....

Little Bo Peep Diploma


Rockets Bursting in Air


Love in a Vacuum


Prometheus Revisited


Neanderthal


Piece of My Heart

Some of our reds:

Happy Holidays To You (M. Holmes)


Heartfelt Challenge (Salter)


Heavenly Bombshell (Gossard)


Heavenly United We Stand (Gossard)


Mexican Holiday (Petit)


Moments That Linger (B. Baxter) not registered


Persian Ruby (Trimmer)


Point Of View (S. Roberts)


Raven's Call (K. Herrington)


Red Bull (Stamile/Pierce)


Red Wine Romance (Kinnebrew)


Redheaded Hussy (Davisson) poly bloom


Rocket Booster (Santa Lucia)


Rosy Spiketail (Gossard)


Rubies In The Sky (C. Hansen)


Ruby Spider (Stamile)


Talladega (Stamile)


Uncle Bryan (Shooter)


Yuletide Magic (J. Carpenter)

Really gorgeous reds here, folks, and thanks so much for sharing them with us! I'm particularly happy to finally see a garden shot of the 2012 Floyd Cove intro RED BULL, and I hope all of you will consider adding your pictures of these beauties to our database if you haven't already done so.

I've been adding a red here and there over the last year or so, and here are some of my additions:

RED BALLS OF FIRE - Couldn't resist adding it after reading your praise


RED CHILE RENDEZVOUS - A really brilliant red-orange


CHERRY ICE CREAM SMILE - an instant favorite here!


DUKE OF GASCONE - A red-burgundy beauty


RUBY AND EMERALD - A bonus plant from Pete Harry Daylilies, and I really love it


And I can't resist including another shot of one of my absolute favorites,
FABULOUS FRIEDA


And finally a little gem: LIL' RED WAGON

Lil Red Wagon is my favorite today.

Thanks to everybody who replied.
In my opinion A good to great red is a must in every daylily garden, but has anyone seen any breakthroughs in the last several years?
I sell seeds and the popularity of a pure red isn't all that great to be honest, and I don't know why.
My favorite Cherokee Star, is a garden magnet to the non daylily gardener looking to brighten up their yard but a hard core daylily grower would just say pretty and walk to the next plant without a second glance.
Is there no future in red? I hope not,