Sunday Gloves is a pretty self.

I love selfs! They'll always be in my garden, and I continue to buy them. For spring delivery I have ARAMIS coming, a bright bright red. One of my all time favorite self colored daylilies is PURE & SIMPLE.

With all the heavy edges, I think that someday there will be a catagory for and people will be breeding for 'tailored' and 'tailored selfs'. A tailored daylily would be one that does not have ruffles, just simplistic beauty. Such as SWISS MINT. They give the eyes a rest from the 'busy-ness' of the ornate edges. Also I feel heavy braided edges detract too much from the petal color. A thin edge (to me) is complimentary & attractive. Heavy edges only look good on yellow flowers.
There- my opinion and worth just what you paid for it!

Just joined the new Cubits and already learned something new about daylilies, selfs!

Here is one I really like

Catherine Woodbery

This one is very nice also!

'Cool It'

I love 'Happy Returns' it does really well in my zone 3a garden.

'Hush Little Baby'

Welcome mcash70! Stick around and you will see lots of pictures and learn a lot about daylilies! There will be more features added to this cubit as time goes by and Dave adds more options.

I had to go online and look at a few more pics of Catherine Woodbury to be sure.... but I think it would be a bitone. Childs did register it as an orchid self.... so...?

From the AHS Online Dictionary
"SELF, COMPLETE SELF:
A flower having perianth segments all of the same color. The throat region can be a different color. In a complete self the segments, throat, pistil and stamens will all be the same color. Also see: Perianth segments, pistil, stamen, throat."

BITONE:
A flower with inner and outer segments of different tints of the same basic color. A bitone has lighter outer segments (sepals) and darker inner segments (petals). A REVERSE BITONE has the darker tones on its outer ring (sepals) and lighter coloration on the inner segments (petals)

Nice pic of Hush Little Baby! I like that flower, but it was not happy here. Neither was Neal Berrey, one of it's parents. About a thousand years ago, I grew the other parent, Trade-Last, and it did well here.

Jules

I am surprised that Neal Berrey did not do well for you. I have it and it does just fine here.

Cindy, every time I see your avatar, I notice that flower. It is just lovely. Didn't you say it is one of your seedlings? I LOVE quilled sepals. I grew RAPTOR for many years - I think I still have it somewhere in one of the beds. It quills. But not as nice as your avatar.

I wish it were one of my seedlings, lol. No, it is Sexy Sally, a Darryl Apps flower.

I'm another DL fan (pun intended) who's going to weigh in here and offer my opinion, which is that I like the selfs as well as the eyed and watermarked DLs. I don't care very much for all the "chicken fat" some of the newer introductions boast of, as I think it detracts from the color. Heavy braiding might have its place in some DLs, but so many new ones seem to think more is better and I disagree. Another opinion worth what you paid for it.

I love the lighter chicken fat as long as the daylily opens properly, so many do not. There are just so many that are so simliar I think as far as the newer cultivars go. I find myself looking for the older cultivars just for something different!

I love a good watermark and a nice contrasting eyes with a good ruffled edge. Love ruffling!

I would not say the chicken fatty ones are better, too much fat and they will not hardly open and I think that in my eyes would make that daylily one to compost no matter how old or new it is. A few fatty ones in the garden is fine but I would not want one filled with them.

A self with good color and maybe a touch of diamond dusting is a winner in my eye.

Is that PARADISE PRINCESS?

Yes it is. This one that I would never be without and the only one I am weird about.

Selves (selfs?) are one of my favorites in daylilies. They will NEVER grow old to me.

It is really nice to have all kinds of extras, but they often need to be viewed up close and personal.

Selves are great garden plants. They can be viewed as a garden color. Patches of color even. I often mass plant (7-12 clumps) together along with mass plantings of grasses or other plants such as Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum'.

SOLID ROCKS!

Curt Hansen mentioned above does lots of SOLIDS - and lots with NO RIBS.

And to answer above, yes, one with a white ribs is still considered a Self!

All of the Lachman's daylilies are nice. My favorites would be red JOHN PHILIP SOUSA and white ribbed late PINK DAZZLER