Oh, WOW! Those are gorgeous! Dancing on Ice is soooo white and so pretty. Of all the white ones you grow, what are your top 3 favorites, Dot? Wish I can see them in person, all these beautiful white flowers. for sharing them.

WOW!! Those are all beautiful! I love that form of Dancing On Ice. Thank you for post all of those.

Just beautiful, Dot! I sure hope DANCING ON ICE is white for me, because Heidi has reserved one for me.

kousa said:That is so pretty, Peter. It looks as white as Gentle Shepherd but lovelier form.

Karen, Royal Frosting also seems to have better substance and possibly better branching/bud count than Gentle Shepherd.

My three favorite white would be:
1. Irish Halo, 2. Snow Crystal and 3. Voila Francois. Voila Francois makes a huge clump for me.

Keeping in mind that sunlight and cameras can change coloring from what the naked eye sees, here are some of the near-whites in my garden that I took pictures of as well as a bunch that are in a local daylily garden:

Joan Senior

(she normally looks whiter than this.)


Lyonness

(this one is fairly white, but is more of a creamy white with peachy undertones....again, not the best picture for color accuracy)
Here's another picture of it:



Royal Frosting

(this one is normally VERY white and sparkly...and boy does she smell divine!)

Peggy Jeffcoat

without looking it up, I think Peggy Jeffcoat is considered a near-white, but she's more of a rosy-white or even peach-white...definitely not a clear white.


Absolute Zero


Aqua Velva Man


Arctic Snow


Cloud Baron



Creative Art


Gentle Shepherd(left) next to Arctic Snow(right)


Give Me Eight


Happy Ever After


Heavenly Angel Ice

(this one is normally a little whiter than the picture shows...I later purchased it for my garden and was impressed with how white it was compared to this picture)


Heavenly Curls


Indy Vision


Julia's Choice


Light the Way


Lullaby Baby



'Mystery White' (That's my garden name for this beauty that was growing among a different CV in a local garden...I requested it as my 'bonus' plant--love it!)


Ornate Ruffles



Radiant Moonbeam

...sort of has lavender undertones to it


Robert Quasdorf

...I'm not sure if this one is considered near-white or yellow. It's a light yellow, but it helps give color contrast for the other blooms on here, too, if it is considered a near-white.


Roman Toga


Royal Frosting (it was worth posting a second picture... )


Snowed In


Spiral Charmer


Starched White


Victorian Lace


White Fantasy


White Triangle


Winter Memories

Thank you all. I have been feasting on your lovely pics. When I started growing daylilies 3 years back, I was most keen to get whites and clear reds, purples and pinks. Since then I've fallen in love with all colours. I wish we could buy here in Aus. some of the ones you have shown.

The whitest I have is JUST CELEBRATE.

This taken before sunset today when it was 86 deg F. It is a bit shaded by a giant tansy plant.
It is not as much a rustbucket as some/?most of the near whites.

A light cream SPACECOAST WHITEOUT after 36 hrs of rain.
Here is looks light pink

Thank you to whomever submitted most of my pictures in that post to the database!

Almost certain this is KNIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN. It looks lots like some of the pics on the ATP site but not like a couple of pics which appear to not have a gold edge, and which have little substance. I thought I may have lost mine. So am happy about it. The 3.0 rust score is consistent with mine. Not bad given its parentage from DRUID'S CHANT with 4.5 and BIG BLUE with 4.0
It is a little bit lighter than pic shows. Will check to see if lighter this evening after a 90 deg day here.

The description in the database says "cream white with gold edge and green throat". I often look at the pics and try to find the one that best matches the "description" by the hybridizer, because I feel that is what the plant was supposed to look like, but the blooms often appear pretty different out in other people's gardens.

Really beautiful pictures everyone I'll take one of each!
Bron: Lovely pics of 'Just celebrate'. Another one for my list!

After hearing how near whites can clean up muddy colors, and add brightness, I decided to add a few last year. I got Boundless Beauty, Lime Frost, Michael Miller, Mississippi Memories, and Voila Francois. I am hopeful that they all make it through their first winter here, and bloom next year. I would welcome any advice on how to use near whites in hybridizing, always trying to learn more. After reading an article from Mick Morry, I am also going to try and use the few oranges I have to try and add some brightness to a few seedlings, also.

Gale

August Frost is one of my favorites, its inexpensive, blooms late, blooms alot for a long time and has perfect blooms for me. Diamond dusted and nice substance. thick scapes that hold up well and increases quickly.
Joan Senior was a heavy bloomer for me and forms a clump quickly, almost too quickly -if you are one who can't stand yesterdays blooms hanging on and like to dead head-this one will drive you crazy, because it blooms so much at once that it is a real job to keep deadheaded. It was pretty white for me, not too yellowish.

Bumping this one up.

@DAVIDRETALLICK

Might anyone have a photograph of the diploid 'Gentle Shepherd' next to the tetraploid conversion that they could post?

Here is Gentle Shepherd it is the diplid, I don't have the Tetra version:

White is my favorites and I have a lot. These are MY pictures from my garden:

Voila Francois (my top 3) - LOVE this one - frilly fancy white that thrives in zone 5!


Early Snow (one of my top 3) - my very first white and still one of my favorites - huge blooms of heavy substance and lots of them and tall and increases nicely


Karen Leigh (one of my top 3) - This is probably my all time favorite daylily I have and I have over 400, soon to have over 500


Victorian Lace x Voila Francois (Gaskin's seedling)


Joan Senior


August Frost


Margo Reed Indeed


Heavenly Angel Ice


Kennesaw Mountain Lemon Sorbet - beautiful blooms, but doesn't have many blooms and very slow increaser


Jammin's Magnolia Bell


White Star (unknown cultivar)


Ivory Titan


Boundless Beauty - increases like crazy



and I have several new ones that did not bloom yet last year - looking forward to their blooms this year or will be new to my garden this spring:
Whiter Shade, Westbourne Snow Cream, Ghost Ranch, Ice Milk, Lillian's Vapor Trail, Isabelle Rose, Crocs with Socs, Heavenly Ghostrider, Vanilla Stella,

Gorgeous whites Lynnette I just found this thread and I love the whites!
Heavenly Angel Ice


Solar Moonglo (not on the database but this was the name when I purchased it from Dutch Bulbs years ago:


NOIDS




I have ordered several new ones for Spring and added a couple last Fall that haven't bloomed yet so I'll add those images later.

Is this thread really over 4 years old?

It still seems to me that the dips are somewhat more white than the tets, but I love the tets for their larger, more ruffled blooms. (On the downside, though, the tets also appear to be more prone to rust. ) But even the soft coloration of the near-white tets works well in a white-themed (or Moon) garden.

Depending on what you view as "near-white", my current "stable" of near-white daylilies:

The Diploids



'Clarity of Purpose' is by far the clearest and whitest of these. 'Give Me Eight' normally does not look that yellow here. That image was taken on a rare, more humid day. 'May May' was just reacquired last year, but I mixed up some labels, so I have to wait for things to bloom to sort them out. Finally, yesterday a box arrived from Oakes Daylilies, which (among other things) has the unregistered "Miss Amelia", which is supposedly near-white, at least from a distance. https://www.oakesdaylilies.com...

The Tetraploids



'Arctic Lace' has beautiful flowers, but it has sulked ever since I transplanted it a few years ago. 'Ballerina on Ice' is valuable for its early/early midseason bloom. 'December Wedding' is my current favorite of the tets; the blooms are beautiful and the plant appears to maybe have some rust resistance. The form on 'Snow Maiden' is not to my taste, and the substance is thin, but I'll give it another year. 'White Wolf' is beautiful, but it is prone to rust. 'Winter Wedding' is maybe the whitest of these, but it has some foliar disease problems and the bud count is not great. 'Wonder of It All' has some opening problems here, and the plant is prone to rust.

I have yet to see bloom on 'Arctic Elegance' (which thus far seems to have some rust resistance), 'Grand Pacific', 'Hazel Ballard', and 'White Perfection'. If anyone has reports on these, especially wrt rust, I'd appreciate it.

The Seedlings (Tets)



Yes, I know, more cream than white... the first one is an older seedling, which stays because it always opens well here. The second one had maiden bloom last season; I am anxiously looking for a scape this season.