@Wes What is the variety of that gorgeous Spidery/UF in your avatar?!

I'm kind of partial to the Blackberries and Cream x Dragonfly Dawn! Really like that one.

Marilyn said:@Wes What is the variety of that gorgeous Spidery/UF in your avatar?!

Marilyn, that one is Red Ribbons.

Noticed a neat "child plant" browsing the "random plants" feature of ATP, it's "Monkey Hips". A taller yellow, the flower form appears very consistent with RR unlike some of it's other offspring found in the Daylily Database here.

Fred - Wow! You really hit the jackpot with the Dragonfly Dawn and Wings of Joy hybrids as well as your Lilian's cultivars! I have 4 Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn seedlings growing from Rich (LA) this year and I can't wait to get blooms to use the pollen or pods to do some hybridizing of that beautiful cultivar! Amazing blooms on each and every one of them!

Here are my first two blooming "dogs" of 2014. Parentage is unknown as seeds were not kept labeled (my fault) or were purchased or given to me without any history of what their parentage might be. I am taking photos and keeping record of their stats. Don't know if I will actually consider naming and registering any, but I do want to name some after some special people in my life. These daylilies are a little over a year old and blooming for the first time or second season.

This one has a lot of buds on a single scape (so far). I am tagging and keeping track of each plant as it blooms. I have over 300 seedlings, but some are not a year old yet so will not likely bloom this year.





The other seedling that bloomed today in the partial shade garden. The scape is on the taller height. Not too many buds:

Nice Becky, things are looking up.

Haven't posted in several days due to Michele keeping me busy with the Region 12 spring meeting which was outstanding. She and the Pensacola Club did a great job.

A few more DRAGONFLY DAWN seedlings
(LILLIAN'S LYING EYES X BLUE MOUNTIANS) X DRAGONFLY DAWN 18M 5"

DRAGON FLY DAWN X (LILLIAN'S LYING EYES X BUTTERFLY COVE) 18M 5"

BUDDYS WILD AND WONDERFUL X DRAGONFLY DAWN 18M 8"

PAINTED RAINBOW X DRAGONFLY DAWN 18M 8"

DRAGONFLY DAWN X TET LILLIAN'S THIN ICE 18M 7"

WAVES OF JOY X TET LILLIAN'S THIN ICE 9M 8"

STARBURST FANTASY X TET LILLIAN'S THIN ICE 9M 6"

Here's some of Kim's that are blooming....I'll post some of mine later

LILLIAN'S WOMAN'S TOUCH X OOPS ANOTHER MIRACLE



LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL x OOPS ANOTHER MIRACLE.....sibs these are so much better in person



CRASHING THE CREASE x WILD DREAMS 3.5"


FRANK'S BLACK EYED SUSAN x LILLIAN'S FUNKY SPUNKY 3.5"-this one looks better in person is just a cute little UF thing. It actually stands out from across the yard

The CTC X is quite splendid.

All of these are so nice looking. Really like Crashing the Crease X Wild Dreams!

Wow everyone!! Stunning, and I didn't see even one dog! Love them all!

Fred - I love the Dragonfly Dawn genes. I have seeds I got from Rich on the LA that are DD x DD. I want those genes to use in my own private hybridizing. Your hybrids of DD and WOJ are outstanding! I love that you are using those genes to cross with your Lillian's hybrids. Very, very impressive! Exciting to say the least! It will likely be next year before I see blooms on DD x DD.

Michele - CRASHING THE CREASE x WILD DREAMS has such beautiful colors and pattern. How can you enlarge (increase) the size of a bloom from 3.5" to something like 5-6"? That bloom is beautiful, but can you imagine it larger! I love them all!

Natalie - I don't see any dogs in this thread (except my own)! LOL! Dragonfly Dawn, Waves of Joy, and so many other patterned hybrids have really changed daylily hybridizing for the future! It's mind-boggling what blooms can be created!

Becky, I didn't see any dogs in your post either! I thought they were very pretty!

tink3472 said:
LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL x OOPS ANOTHER MIRACLE.....sibs these are so much better in person

The midribs on this are very interesting. Add great depth to the flower.

Natalie - Thanks! Maybe my blooms aren't "dogs" ... more like Plain Jane daylily blooms, but I hope to eventually have more interesting blooms next year. Here in my area, any daylilies that aren't the typical commercial yellow daylilies is considered unusual. I've probably got the only color-filled daylily garden around. LOL! Thanks for your generous compliment.

Becky, this is the first seedling of mine that ever bloomed, and it was a DOG!!! I waited 3 long years to see this!



Now stop laughing!

Natalie - It's not a dog as long as it's not the commercial yellow daylily dogs. Just wondering .... how did the following blooms (after the very first one) look? Did the blooms get better as the plant aged? I don't think it looks THAT bad, but I do think it's terrible that you had to wait 3 years to see the first bloom. In all honesty, I DO have some patience for some plant species taking years to bloom, but daylilies are not one of them. Epi's (Epiphyllum) ... yes! Daylilies have to bloom for me in one year or they get threatened to be yanked up! LOL! (You'd be amazed at how many decide to bloom after my verbal threat! LOL! .... and a little more fertilizer and water added. LOL!)

Becky, I didn't think it got better. It was so ugly to begin with that I just couldn't love it! When we moved, it was going on 4 years for many of my seedlings to bloom for the first time, and I left them all behind. Figured I'd just start over. I had a couple that were pretty. Not worth doing anything with, but I liked them. I just didn't have room to dig them up and bring them with me. Also, I couldn't remember which ones they were, and nothing was blooming when we moved, so I took all the tags off of them and left them.

Thanks @Gleni! Was that a sympathy acorn?

Oh, my message is not here. It said: "Natalie, that was the best crafted short story about daylilies I have ever seen.

Tell Kim she can come hybridize for me, like all of those.

Great to see more posting seedlings here.

LAVENDER BUTTERFLY X EMERALD STARBURST 18M 7"

SEEDLING HB4 X LILLIAN'S FIRE AND FLAME 18M 6"

LILLIAN'S FIRE AND FLAME X JANET AND BILL 18M 5"

(EXOTIC TREASURE X ORANGE GROVE) X JANET AND BILL 18M 5"

BUDDYS BLONDIE X BEST EDGE 6"