See post below for a list of volunteered articles and authors.

Tina, you are doing an excellent job of organizing and getting everything whipped into shape.

Oh contraire ... You did an excellent job of getting it organized, Rita ... I just like doing the whipping part, so there we are...

Really guys, we need more articles ... its a point of pride: the roses peeps still have us whooped! First-time-never-written-a-word-before authors are Most to put together an article! It can be researched from the ground up, no need to be a super expert, and it can even be a group article or maybe even a stitched-together-article to bring together great info you've learned from the forum (as long as the original poster's information is referenced?).

How about the following thoughts:

1. How do hybridisers actually make choices about their babies in
a) what to keep and hybridise with; and
c) what to register.
Something nitty gritty. From what I can see they all say the same thing about what traits a keeper should have but - low and behold - when you compare the variable results you wonder what is going on. AND sometimes when you see people's seedlings that make you tongue hang out, they have no intention of registering (and do they really compost the loser plants?)

2. You got a good cultivar, you have registered it, now HOW do you popularise it? What are the marketing steps?

3. How do daylily people plan for most of the year when their garden is populated by non-flowering daylilies. Or does it matter?

4. Heritage registered daylilies and extinction: fashion, aesthetics and natural selection. Shouldn't we at least get a record of them before they become extinct? Should there be a heritage database of what still exists. Should we be trying to keep them alive somewhere and somehow?

I am also looking at my notes: not to pre-empt ideas already. These are others that might only take a bit of editing because they are already basically written cause the authors are prolific.

1. Disease Michele?

2. Dormancy Maurice?

3. Polyploidy Maurice or Spunky?

4. Daylily anatomy and growth Maurice?

5. Fertilising Michele?

Also.

6. Unusual: variegated foliage, tall and small scapes and flowers, no flowers and unusual flower textures. All.

7. When is a daylily clump too big and how to deal with it and what to do with the spare fans.

8. Growing daylilies in pots.

9. Growing the original species: where it all started.

See post below for a list of volunteered articles and authors :}

I'm going to email Dan Bachman of Valley of the Daylilies, who hybridizes mostly the spidery/unusual forms if he would contribute an article of the spidery/unusual forms.

If he says yes....

@Trish what's your email addy, so I can have him email you the article? I'd like to add it in my email to him. Tmail me your email addy.

April 1 or April 2 is the cutoff date?!

trish @ allthingsplants.com

Yes, the first few days of April is the cutoff.

Thanks Trish!

I didn't know if you wanted your email addy to be "out there".

I just emailed Dan Bachman and asked.

I have not written any articles myself, but would like to contribute. I was thinking on writing one on digging clumps to divide for potting up and shipping to sell. Will work on that if there's an interest, but won't be able to add pics to it until the very last minute, as I can't take any till the weather warms up sufficiently to dig a clump.

I say go for it! we need all sorts of articles for daylily week and this seems like a very good one.

Karen that would be very interesting to many on ATP myself included.

Edited to include today's update to the ideas/articles list:

Authors Wanted for Articles of Interest (and a GREAT way to earn acorns for raffle contest, ATP store items, and badges!):

*Small yard hobby hybridizer how-to and profile/s
*Different kinds of DL traits explained, and not usually mentioned: ex: velvety vs waxy petals
*How to get started, and manage, informal selling of seeds, seedlings or fans - locally or on auction sites
*How hybridizers make choices about their seedlings: a) what to keep and hybridise with; and b) what to register. Something nitty gritty; not just what traits a keeper should have but an example from seeding-to-registered, AND HOW is it popularized and marketed?
*How do daylily people in warmer climates plan for most of the year when their garden is populated by non-flowering daylilies.
*Heritage registered daylilies and extinction, are there sources for daylily Historial Gardens? Discussion about fashion, aesthetics, natural selection, recording, extinction, focused database source? Should there be a heritage database of what still exists.
*Unusual: variegated foliage, tall and small scapes and flowers, no flowers and unusual flower textures.
*When is a daylily clump too big and how to deal with it and what to do with the spare fans.
*Growing daylilies in pots.
*Growing the original species: where it all started.

Authors Nominated to edit their forum contributions for an article (no pressure, but would be awesome!)

*Daylily Diseases - Michele?
*Dormancy - Maurice?
*Polyploidy - Maurice or Spunky?
*Daylily anatomy and growth - Maurice?
*Fertilising - Michele?

Authors Volunteered:

1-How to Have Indoor Winter Blooming Daylilies- Profesora is authoring
2-DL seed starting & how to get seedling fans to blooming stage quickly - Beckygardener is authoring
3-Late Daylilies and how to add late and extra late bloomers to your garden. - Newyorkrita has authored
4-How I turned a grassy steep slope into a daylily garden. - Newyorkrita has authored
5-Instant front yard daylily bed by moving daylilies from the back yard. - Newyorkrita has authored
6-How to Grow Daylilies for Beginners - Hemlady is authoring
7-Daylilies in heat in Australia - Gleni is authoring
8-Incorporating Daylilies with other plants in a garden - Seedfork has authored
9-Cut Daylily Displays - chalyse has authored :P
10-Tools for daylily gardening - maybe chalyse editing contributions :}
11-Dividing daylilies to pot up and sell - nutsfordaylilies is authoring
12-Photographing daylilies - nutsfordaylilies is authoring
13-Spider daylilies - Dan Bachman may author

Karen- that's great! If you need anything, let me know.

I knew I could count on our ATP members!

Great, I will go ahead and do that, then! I was also thinking maybe an article on photographing daylilies.

This is a photo of H. Spacecoast Sonata. You can even see the diamond dusting on it!

Oh Karen, SS is beautiful!

I am excited to see daylilies week come around. Great things in store!

I would love to see an article on photographing daylilies. Beautiful Photos.

blue23rose said:Oh Karen, SS is beautiful!

I am excited to see daylilies week come around. Great things in store!

Thank you!

Seedfork said:I would love to see an article on photographing daylilies. Beautiful Photos.

Thanks! I'm looking forward to it!

Good on you Seedfork!!