Wow, what an elegant new profile picture, Hetty! Ann, that is a rockin deal on the dayliles from Michele.

Lin, your flower beds are just lovely. I didn't have any idea that crocosmias would grow in Florida! Do you have them in the shade or where? My mother had them in her garden in Vancouver, BC and I love them.

Have you gone back as far as page 3 of this thread yet, Lin? Ann and I had a discussion about daylilies there and she shows some great ones that have done well for her. I have one red that does well here, and I've had some just peter out and disappear on me. The ones I bought from Home Depot and WalMart were the ones that didn't make it.

dyzzypyxxy said:Wow, what an elegant new profile picture, Hetty!

Thank you

Thanks Hetty; I find it an easy Hoya. I am such a bad plant caretaker at times ... this one needs repotting desperately, I really need to get it done soon.

A few more Hoyas that have been blooming lately:

Hoya pubicalyx 'Pink Silver' ..................... and Hoya pubicalyx (probably 'Red Buttons')


Hoya merrillii plant and bloom; I love this one for the foliage which gets very colorful in high light!


Hoya obovata ........................................ and Hoya carnosa:

That is a great photo of you Hetty ... pretty, sophisticated lady!

dyzzypyxxy said:Wow, what an elegant new profile picture, Hetty! Ann, that is a rockin deal on the dayliles from Michele.

I have one red that does well here, and I've had some just peter out and disappear on me. The ones I bought from Home Depot and WalMart were the ones that didn't make it.

And that's probably why they didn't make it. If you buy from a reputable hybridizer or grower like Michele; you will find a different story. And Michele is right here in Florida with the dl's growing outside as opposed to in a greenhouse so you know they can take what Fl. has to dish out.

The only Daylilies I have are from a couple bags of bulbs I bought at Wal-Mart this past spring and for the most part they are doing ok. One bloomed last month (1 measly flower but it was pretty.) I planted a couple in the ground and they seem to be suffering a bit, possibly because the area gets flooded when it rains and doesn't drain well at all; I need to dig them back up. The ones I planted in a container are growing well ... hopefully to bloom at some point! I might have to seriously think about buying a box from Michele to see how they will do here in Daytona.

Lin, when we first moved to FL I purchased some daylilies and planted them, having used some bagged soil to amend the bed. They didn't do too well, however, a few years later, I discovered Ladybug daylilies in Geneva, FL. On their website, they have a "recipe" for amending our Florida soil aka, sand, and the daylilies I have purchased there are doing well. We go down every spring and pick up several clumps (around $9 or $10). Unfortunately I can't invest in the high priced ones, but that doesn't mean there aren't lots of others that are just as beautiful.

Ladybug Daylilies


My mother's Day gift was a trip to Ladybug for some daylilies. Here are some of my favorites.

Nile Jewel


Desiree's Desire

Intimate Interlude

Ice Planet

Sweet Patootie

Palo Duro Canyon

The website is www.ladybugdaylilies.com and they have lots of information on planting which I found useful.

Lin, daylilys don't have bulbs. So if you bought bulbs in a bag then they aren't daylilys.

Jean, that's a great tip on Ladybug Daylilies! I checked out their site and they sure have a great selection. Next time I'm up that way, will be sure to visit there. Whoo, I see what you mean about the expensive ones, though! I wonder how much better a $100 daylily is than a $10?

Hmm, are they rhizomes, Ann? When I divide mine, there's a bunch of small bulb-like things down there under the fan of leaves.

Elaine, keep in mind that the $10 daylilies were once priced at $100 or thereabouts. The expensive ones are new cultivars and I imagine the price has something to do with the fact that they are in short supply. It has taken the grower several years to get that certain pattern, etc along with some failures along the way. I look through the pictures, pick something I like, make my list and head off to pick up a few more beauties.

rocklady said:Elaine, keep in mind that the $10 daylilies were once priced at $100 or thereabouts. The expensive ones are new cultivars and I imagine the price has something to do with the fact that they are in short supply. It has taken the grower several years to get that certain pattern, etc along with some failures along the way. I look through the pictures, pick something I like, make my list and head off to pick up a few more beauties.

That's exactly right Elaine. And I'm not sure that they exactly qualify as rhizomes but I'm not a dl expert. Rhizomes have underground shoots that plants grow off of & dl's multiply fanwise which is not technically a rhizome (I think). But you know what? Rhizome is close enough ~~~ I'm not splitting hairs. I just wanted Lin to know that bulbs aren't even close to what the underground parts of a dl are like.
I joined my local dl society & got fans for $2.50 each & they are Salter hybrid introductions from 2008 & 2009. When they were intros in their respective years they were GASP expensive @ likely over $100 per fan & now in 2013 they are selling on the open market for $50-75 so you can see that it can really behoove you to join a local dl club. And then there are also the un-named cultivars like Michele is selling & there is absolutely nothing wrong with them, buying them, growing them & enjoying their beauty. Hybridizers have to decide which of their seedlings are worthy of being the best of the best of the best ~~~ in others words really, really special. Then they take those & register them with names & yes, will sell those for major bucks. It might seem the hybridizer makes a ton of money but with all that's involved in getting to that point & the years it takes ~~ I bet they struggle to break even. Just like dog showing & breeding. You have to love it with a passion b/c odds are you aren't going to make a dime off it when all is said & done.

Ann, LOL ... Yeah, I did buy bulbs this past spring but they were something else ... the DL's were roots with a bit of green stem if I remember correctly.


I can't imagine spending $50 or more for a single plant ... I'm too cheap; and also a bad caretaker sometimes ... so plants have to survive on neglect here.

I'm with you, Lin. The plants that I have must be able to withstand my benign neglect or they won't survive. Some of the clumps of daylilies we got on Mother's Day contained 6 fans, which amounted to less than $2.00 per fan -- that's my kind of price for plants. I'm also a seed gatherer and collect lots of seeds and plant them -- sometimes they survive, other times they don't. If the seeds produce plants, that's a plus, too. Free plants

rocklady said: I'm also a seed gatherer and collect lots of seeds and plant them -- sometimes they survive, other times they don't. If the seeds produce plants, that's a plus, too. Free plants.

I'm a seed gatherer/collector too; I've been a bit obsessive at times about collecting seeds. When my youngest niece was in her first year of college (10 years ago) I went up to S.C. to visit her and walked around campus collecting seeds here and there, with my sisters and my niece laughing at me all the while. Sometimes I collect lots and lots of seeds, package them up ... and then forget about them; and sometimes I sow them ... and forget about them.

A year ago when we cleaned out the shed at our other house before listing it for rent, I found jars and jars of seeds stashed on a shelf in the shed, some probably ten or more years old ... some that I didn't even remember when/where I collected them! I'm so bad that sometimes I sow seeds and then end up moving stuff around on the porch and the seed trays get stuck in a corner somewhere and I forget to water them. Just last week when I was doing yard work; I stopped to pull weeds in a corner by the deck and found a seed tray in a dry corner under the eave of the house ... can't remember when I stuck it out there but it was awhile ago and they haven't been watered so I know the seeds won't be germinating.

If there were an award for Bad Plant Parent, I'd surely be in the running to win that one!

Free plants are the best, for sure! Those red daylilies in my flower border, now at least 6 nice clumps, started out their career as a couple of thin little fans. If you get one that you love the flowers, and they love your garden, they are SO easy to divide and spread around. I must admit that not that many of my ornamentals are in the ground here any more, but those daylilies are, and seem to be doing great. Gingers and cannas also do fine competing with all the oak tree roots as long as they get enough water.

Here they are again, on their third round of blooms since April! Please excuse the weeds, it's been raining, y'see.


Got a couple of new begonias at Lowe's the other day, 4in. pots but there are at least 3 plants in each one. If the rain would just let up I'd get them divided into their own new pots.


Just now came from Home Depot, buying more Mosquito Dunks, and they have some really pretty Thai caladiums on sale if anyone is looking for those. My phone had no juice or I would have taken pictures.

plantladylin said:
I'm a seed gatherer/collector too; I've been a bit obsessive at times about collecting seeds. When my youngest niece was in her first year of college (10 years ago) I went up to S.C. to visit her and walked around campus collecting seeds here and there, with my sisters and my niece laughing at me all the while. Sometimes I collect lots and lots of seeds, package them up ... and then forget about them; and sometimes I sow them ... and forget about them.

A year ago when we cleaned out the shed at our other house before listing it for rent, I found jars and jars of seeds stashed on a shelf in the shed, some probably ten or more years old ... some that I didn't even remember when/where I collected them! I'm so bad that sometimes I sow seeds and then end up moving stuff around on the porch and the seed trays get stuck in a corner somewhere and I forget to water them. Just last week when I was doing yard work; I stopped to pull weeds in a corner by the deck and found a seed tray in a dry corner under the eave of the house ... can't remember when I stuck it out there but it was awhile ago and they haven't been watered so I know the seeds won't be germinating.

If there were an award for Bad Plant Parent, I'd surely be in the running to win that one!

Lin, I could have written the above about myself!!! DH has even called me a plant murderer on occasion.

Jean: I think we are in good company.

Right there with you two. My particular m.o. involves not being able to throw away a cutting . . whenever I prune anything, the cuttings go into a jug of water, and from there . . .. lets just say I have cuttings sitting in water with lots of roots and new leaves, but I can't remember how long they've been in there. Sometimes there are so many roots they won't come out of the jug!

dyzzypyxxy said:Right there with you two. My particular m.o. involves not being able to throw away a cutting . . whenever I prune anything, the cuttings go into a jug of water, and from there . . .. lets just say I have cuttings sitting in water with lots of roots and new leaves, but I can't remember how long they've been in there. Sometimes there are so many roots they won't come out of the jug!

Yep ... I do that too! I guess many of us are more alike than we realize.