Shive --- I am wondering if you have Neutron Star, and not Fad Gadget. I love Neutron Star.... but I don't have it. I emailed a friend and asked him for a photo. The first photo is taken at my friends, on a very small plant, and the second photo is from a clump at Curt's the year before he broke it up and named it.

Photos by Bob O'neal.

at Bob O'neal's


and at Curt's

Wowser!

It should be Fad Gadget. I got it from Davi. It also died over the winter, and the flower was blooming in high temps and on a short scape. I'm sure it will look a bit different when it settles in. I was just glad to get the pinching and pleating. I also have Curt's Stealth Bomber and Integrated Logistics, but neither showed the sculpting characteristics in their first year of bloom here.

Debra

Here is Neutron Star today. This one is a little off from it's more normal round self, but I still like it anyway ! !
I don't know if it has been mentioned before here, but in two of the AHS Daylily Journals, are articles written by Charmaine Rich telling about sculpted forms and there cellular differences. I believe one was last winter's issue. I will have to look it up and get back.

OK, no picture of Neutron Star. I'll have to work on that.

You're teasing us Sunny! Where is Neutron Star?
and what is your avatar?

Here's the Jeff Salter that started Curt on the path to pleating and pinching.

ANASTASIA is reblooming here right now.

I saw that one in Florida, even took a picture of it http://davesgarden.com/guides/... and never forgot it. Well, I forgot to get it, now I am back on the hunt.

One with embossed sculpting that was new to my garden this year was

OUR MISS RUBY by Dan Hansen

I've always thought Anastasia was a beautiful flower. Nice picture, so pretty !
My avatar is a seedling from two of Curt's. Waterpocket Fold x Unfolding Paradox.
I didn't mean to tease, I can't seem to get my pictures up. I need professional (my son) help.

I wonder if they need the warm nights and humidity to really get that sculpting. We don't get that here.

Shive,
Where do you live or what is your zone?

I live in Nashville, TN - Zone 7

Debra

Here is one with teeth that does the pleating and pinching about 75 percent of the time.

NEWTIE'S FANGS

Beautiful. You have a longer growing season than me so I guess that makes for a better chance of reblooms.

Shive, just spoke to Bob, he knows Davi well, the do that early morning Chat thing. They both got Neutron Star at the same time, so he said hers would not be big enough for her to have sent it to you.... so yours must be Fad Gadget. I am just confused, because I have always seen FG as peachy to pale orange-melon. But then, I have had mine a few years. I think I got it a couple years before it was named.... so mine has had time to settle in. The darn thing is blooming on it's third set of scapes and that does NOT happen to anything here except Penny's Worth.

Anastasia would increase a little then rebloom till it decreased, take a year off, increase a little, rebloom, decrease. It did better for Curt.

Sue, you and I live in a very similar climate, and thanks for the warning that sculpting might not appear for me! But, is that also true of Corbett's Bonnie Holley daylily? I've only seen pix of it. I'm aware that the greater Sacramento area gets considerably hotter than the Bay Area, but humidity is low and their evening temps could be in the 50's - just as it is here. If sculpting appears in the Sacramento area, but not here, then maybe it's because of the area's higher day temps? It's all very confusing! : ) All the best - Elizabete

Elizabete,
They probably have the warmer nights there in the valley during a heat wave. I just compared their current weather to ours and the overnight temps are the same. But I do try to find daylilies that are EMO, Early Morning Openers. When you compare pictures from the warm humid parts of the country to here, they all look different. We don't usually get as much ruffling and looping either. It's those warm humid nights that really bring out the best forms, in most cases. When you buy from the CA hybridizer's, you at least know it should perform well here!

I bought Bonnie Holley directly from the hybridizer, (known him for years) and it does the petal surface sculpting pretty nicely. I don't know why, but I can't find my pictures of it right now.

Are you in the local daylily club by any chance? Next meeting & auction is this month in Vacaville, on the 21st. It's been at least a year since I last went, we were always out of town. I kind of stopped collecting, no more room in my tiny yard but I now have a renewed interest, we are trying to buy a house in Sebastopol on 1/2 acre, sold mine 3 weeks ago.

My best EMO, Bob Carr's LIVING IN LUXURY, not sculpting but a bit of pleating & lots of looping ruffles. And it's a Florida bred daylily so I am thrilled to find one that looks like it's supposed to. It's coming with me!

Hi, Sue,

Thanks for the Living in Luxury recommendation, but I've already been oohing and aahing over mine, which I bought from Maryott's last autumn. : ) http://cubits.org/Daylilies/th... (My colors aren't as rich as yours - but then again, we haven't had much of a summer, alas, have we?)

Joy, who's up in the PNW, and I have been comparing notes about cold weather openers. Joy's climate seems to be almost identical to ours, except that she actually gets consistently freezing temps in the winter, so she can safely grow all dormants. Do you by any chance have a list of dormants that couldn't handle our climate? Thus far, except for Peach Rum Festival, which did go dormant last winter, the few others I have did stay evergreen, and had a good increase, so I think they're safe enough. But, I'm really leary of dormants.

Just in terms of sculpted daylilies, the only one I have is Moon Over Monteray - which is stunning if it's somewhat warm. http://cubits.org/Daylilies/th... Even when it's cool, it opens flawlessly, though then it won't have much - if any - visible sculpting.

I haven't joined the daylily club yet; I had health issues this past winter (just a broken ankle). But thanks for the info, though I can't make it on the 21st. Actually, I bought a daylily from Nancy Bailey this winter, and I probably should remind her that she was going to put me onto the mailing list.

Looking forward to welcoming you to the North Bay! : ) Actually, you're the reason that I found my way to daylily forums. After 20 years of living on a shady property, 2 1/2 years ago I moved into the sunshine, and began looking for daylilies, since I'd grown them in the late 70's and early 80's back East. Almost everytime I googled a particular daylily, which I was thinking of ordering, it would be your impressive photographs on DG's Plant Files that would come up! This so intrigued me, that ultimately I joined DG, and have found all of these other forums, as well.

All the best! :)

Elizabete

Wow, I am so flattered and happy to have drawn you in too LOL My photos have done their work I would say!

Don't be too leery of dormants, my Mom & I do grow a few and they are the best looking ones come spring with their new fresh foliage. I have only had a few of the harder dormants that just didn't thrive and I eventually had to give them to someone in the colder zones but there are plenty that do great, like Primal Scream & Autumn Wood.