May 22 2011 Lyle participated in a home tour of daylily gardens in our area. I went to his tour/garden and had a really nice time! This is one serious daylily garden. Just gorgeous. I have about 6-7 of Lyle's hybridized daylilies and they're doing GREAT! love them! He showed me how to pollinate and I'm going to give it a try! I took a whole bunch of pics but one daylily is prettier than the next... how much pretty can we handle? They're all so unique!
His cubit is here http://cubits.org/desertdaylil...

Oooooo Ahhhhh!! Just beautiful

Here's the Daylily I got at Lyle's the other Saturday.

Lovely Harold!!

Susie - Thanks for the kind words about my garden. I hope to see those seedlings blooming next season.

Harold - The seedling looks very nice! You will be able to plant it in the fall for best results. That seedling has very good parentage and with early blooming habits in it's background should be a nice early bloom for the garden.

I have a few photos form this morning a few daylilies are protected, and some are out in the elements and those of you living here in the desert know what i mean...HOT!

This daylily has done well in the garden for being burned alive...lol
APACHE SUNRISE


Always a good color for the the heat - This daylily is under shade cloth
DUTCH YELLOW TRUFFLE


Another one under the shade.
EARLY EARLY TRUFFLE


GOD SAVE THE QUEEN - This is one of the parents to Harolds seedling.


This one has bloomed from spring and is still blooming voted one of Region 7's favorite garden daylilies.
WONDER OF IT ALL


This little mini is growing out in the full sun.......very nice daylily
CHRISTINA COOK


WILD CHERRY ROUND UP


I keep forgetting to give this one to Marie.....BG
COSMIC SENSATION - One of the best darks i grow for the heat.


One of my favorites this time of year ---it can take the heat.
MICHAEL MILLER


ROLLING RAVEN - with child (seed pod) .....lol

Lovely blooms Lyle! My DLs on the north side are still chugging along. 42nd street opened the first bloom on the rebloom scape this am - lovely bloom though the scape is way shorter but more branched. That scape was up before the first even finished blooming!

My Rolling Raven is under the shade in the veggie garden but the foliage is looking really ratty and awful. The new leaves emerging look OK and green so maybe it's just not liking the heat...

The heat has been brutal and will take its toll but your RR in the shade should be fine. Take care of that one, it is one of the best tet spider pod setters on the market...

I have put RR with Cherry Swizzler and hope for some nice kids from that cross in the spring.

CHERRY SWIZZLER

Sweet! Can't wait to see those kids!

Yeah, the heat all of a sudden like that has my plants none too happy. Believe me, I'm guarding RR with my life - lol. I am due to be out of town for 9 days in August and may have to pay a sitter for RR... Not sure if I trust DH to be responsible for it...

Nice blooms Lyle. My seedling does not seem to be happy with this heat. I am going to find a shadier place to put the pot!!
Those kids should be awesome Lyle!! Kelly I will watch him for you :o)

Thanks Marie - I may have to take you up on that. Only a few things died from lack of water last year... Including my Petunias I had kept alive all summer.

I know how that is. Never fails when I go away for even just a couple of days something end up dead!!

A gardener's work is never done - sigh.

For those of you growing daylilies, this is a good time of year to divide or plant daylilies you have kept in pots.

2012 introduction (pending release)

HABOOB

Thanks for the tip!!

Lyle, this is beautiful. I love the ruffled edges! And the name:

Thanks Lyle!
All of mine are now in the ground. I have very healthy looking green leaves about 8-10 inches tall on all my daylilies! I'm envisioning a good blooming season!!!!! The purple iris I got from you has REALLY grown.... after just less than a year I think I'd have to thin those out!

I have a new standard poodle, Lexie, this year. It will be a challenge to keep her off the blooms. Thinking of getting some sort of topiary towers to put over the DLs. Suggestions?

Marie this has not been a good year for daylilies with the harsh summer, but we should be good until late December from this point on...

Thanks Becky! I though the name was appropriate with the mass of bloom this daylily puts on each scape, I had to get the name fast while it was available since most of the desert names are taken by the northerners...lol

Susie - I think next year will be a much better year for daylilies. The iris you got from me is very hardy, the name is Eleanor Roosevelt .

An appropriate name after the dust storms you guys went thru this summer !

Yea! That Haboob is Big and Billowy! Perfect name!

Linda do you not get the same dust storms in Tucson?