yesm be afwaid, be werry afwaid, natalie!

I am Debra!

Thanks Jan. I went to the auction site. My first time. My eyes were on stalks. Oh the sin of avarice.

Two noids I have are flowering at the moment. There are so many unoccupied houses in disrepair on the island and old gardens if you can still see where they are. I hate visiting such places because I feel I should help the plants some of which are on their last legs. Especially, I bring the daylilies home which I have usually located by forlorn leaves. I must admit it is good fun when they flower - its is such a surprise because you don't know what is coming. The second one here is interesting because it has cascading sepals.

Glen, you are braver than I am, going on the lily auction site!

Your second bloom looks a lot like Crimson Pirate. This is a picture of mine, and the color is way off. It's a very nice red, but never turns out that way when I photograph it. It's tall, but I didn't measure it. There is another one that is very similar, but I can't think of the name right now.

On second thought, I'm pretty sure it isn't the same one. Close though.

Hemlady said:Sorry Michele, didn't mean to give any wrong information here. I only wrote about being an AHS member because that is what was told to me many years ago. Maybe the rules have changed since then.

No worries , the rules may have changed who knows.

Glen - You've got some gorgeous orange blooming daylilies!

The Lily Auction site will become an obsession. Emergency Warning! Step away from your computer ..... now! I've won a few auctions for seeds that I think will give me some really cool genes to play with. As well as see what the hybrid seeds will produce! It is hybridizer's heaven on that LA site!!!! Be warned!!!

Like both of those, Glen.

This is my Crimson Pirate.

Looks just like mine Debra! I really love it. It was supposed to be something purple - can't remember now - so imagine my surprise when it wasn't!

Thanks Natalie and Deb. I was quite surprised to find a spider noid here on the island. The couple who owned it where in their 80s - I met them when I first moved here early this century. They were western graziers from over the Great Dividing Range and the house was their holiday home. Unfortunately they both died within a couple of months of meeting them. No one has lived there since. However, the lawn is mowed regularly by tractor - including the daylilies - but bit by bit the house's woodwork is becoming more derelict. This is the old house. I am standing on a once extensive garden bed that has been mown into lawn. The daylilies coming up in the second photo I think are Kwanzo type and not the spider - I have only seen collapsed blooms: a double orange like two sets of single flowers on a kebab. The ones of this I transplanted last year are just sending up scapes this month.

Glen, if you get lucky enough to meet the person who is in charge of mowing, maybe you can talk them into not mowing the daylilies for a while, to see what blooms. Or, just go on a midnight raid and dig all of them up! You would be saving their lives! If I was over there, we would be going on a midnight raid, for sure!

Natalie, lots of thunderstorms at the moment. They should all shoot with the rain. Then I must do my duty and save them.

How do you tell diamond dusting. This is another of my seedlings GI 12 26 (Crickey! self cross). In the sun it glinted impressively. I cannot see it in the photo. But when you magnify it, there are sparkles: is that diamond dusting?

Glen, If it is glinting, I would say that is diamond dusted. Here is link to an old thread about diamond dusting. It has a couple of good pictures on it.

The thread "Diamond dusted?" in Daylilies forum

Thanks Vickie. That was fascinating. Only one of all my yellow seedlings from Crikey! self cross appears to be diamond dusted. Crikey! isn't. After reading, I thought it might be gold dusted, but on one bloom that had partial fading from the sun, without a yellow pigment background, it was just diamond dusted. Interesting, none of the seedlings kept any pattern from the parent - just yellows. Must go to bed - the weekend just started here.

Diamond dusting is difficult to capture. I have one:

Exotic Rings

Debra, the diamond dusting shows up really well in that picture! I have found that it's one of the hardest things to photograph, and you did a great job!

Very nice capture of an elusive trait!

I agree, diamond dusting is very difficult to capture on camera. But once you see it in real life, it is easy to pick out.

Glen, I am NOT enabling by sending you to the LA.

Well, perhaps a bit...... ~Jan