I love Dragon King pic too. It just goes to show you that a good older one is still very collectible.

bluegrassmom said:I love Dragon King pic too. It just goes to show you that a good older one is still very collectible.

I so agree with you. Just because a plant is a new intro doesn't make it great or even a big success. ATP is loaded with thousands of pictures of amazing and beautiful older daylilies. A quality plant, no matter the age, will always produce quality blooms. Hybridizers will always look to these quality older blooms to make new crosses in looking for spectacular new plants or intros.

FFOE Red Light District



Sharon's Delight bloomed today on a 7" scape.




Edited to add confirmed as SD.

George Jets On

Tides Roll In... Last bloom

As Char mentioned, all my early and midseason plants are winding down now. Rebloom will start with in a week or so. I do have a few late bloomers that are just starting to open.

Here is one very close to my heart. In May, I received and planted 'Ruby Lipstck', a John Benz, oldie. I had wanted to include this daylily in my garden for the past several years, but for some reason got caught up in ordering newer daylilies. This year, I acted as an adult, and went back and picked up older dayliliys that I had always wanted in my garden but had overlooked.




RUBY LIPSTICK - FFOE - What really surprised me with this bloom is the lovely gold filigreed edge that surrounds this 7" bloom. A lot of pix do not show this yellow edge.

dormantsrule said:
This was sent as a bonus plant labeled Sharon Joker and bloomed today on a 7" scape. Anyone know what it really is?

Looks like SHARON'S DELIGHT to me.

Ah! Finally a picture that I could capture in the AM of Coronation Day. The color on the edge is yellowish not white like the picture indicates.




I got lucky getting an accurate color on Flight Of The Raven.



Apollodorous - taken in the AM sun



Lilting Belle



Damascan Velvet



Blooms are winding down around here.

JWWC said:
Looks like SHARON'S DELIGHT to me.

Thanks, I confused it this a.m. with Sharon Joker sitting next to it.

So many beautiful blooms. Thanks for sharing everyone.

Really like Daringly Different, Swallowtail Kite, and Ruby Lipstick.

Amy, I have Flight of the Raven and it was a top performer for me last year and this year. I love your picture of it and you are right, the color is spot on! I have a cross of FOTR with Malachi this year and hope to get something good out of it.

dormantsrule said:

Thanks, I confused it this a.m. with Sharon Joker sitting next to it.

No problem. I was just excited I could actually identify a bloom for once!

Happy Sunday, all.


I have a few new ones to share and some oldies looking great. But I will be reaching the end of showing new photos sometime during this coming week.



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FANTASY FRINGE - Planted 2 summers ago, and never bloomed. This year its strutting its stuff. Late to bloom in my garden.




ELVIS - Believe it or not this is one of my favorite daylilies. But it has had a terrible time this summer with our cold mornings in July opening itself up. You see Elvis has that huge Kaskel best edge. And that edge takes heat to open. The plant has been blooming for 2 weeks, and none of the blooms opened satisfactorily. With temps in the mid 80's today, I finally got a bloom I could post to the forum although it is nowhere up to its exquisite beauty. If I get a better bloom I will post it.




FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH Another Nicole daylily. Late bloomer, really large bloom on tall thick scapes. Very Nice.




BRIDEY GREESON -- I published this photo in the database this morning. This daylily is outstanding in appearance when the thrips don't attack it. Love it




AQUADISIAC- This is the 2nd bloom on this late blooming daylily. It is the strangest color daylily I have ever seen. And it keeps changing. Firstly, it's a huge bloom, 8". Secondly, it's scary looking. Nicole's review states. "Aquadisiac sets a new standard for large blue eyed breeding"...so I saved some pollen.




ULTIMATE FANTASY - Top 10 bloomer in my garden this summer. It's like the energizer bunny. Has been blooming for 7 weeks consistently. Opens no matter the cold mornings. The bloom is also soft, large bloom at 7", and sweet rosy eye.




A WALK TO REMEMBER - Diploid - E. Shooter - Just a lovely daylily,

I love all of these flowers. Daylilies just keep growing on me more and more. I picked up 3 new ones yesterday. How do you all keep the plant names straight? I swear I'm going to have to print out a picture of my house and just write in what I put where. I purposely put the 3 plants in very different areas and they all look very different so I will hopefully be able to keep them straight. Next Saturday I'm hoping to go to the local Daylily & Iris clubs sale that they are having and pick up more flowers! I asked my husband how many plants I was allowed to buy, he said as many as I would put into the ground so.....

Anyway, onto some pictures.

These are from my parent's place in Ohio

I really liked the light frills on this one, so one of the new plants I picked up is frilled "Wallingford Woolly Bully"

blue23rose said:Really like Daringly Different, Swallowtail Kite, and Ruby Lipstick.

Amy, I have Flight of the Raven and it was a top performer for me last year and this year. I love your picture of it and you are right, the color is spot on! I have a cross of FOTR with Malachi this year and hope to get something good out of it.

Vickie, I look forward to seeing your cross someday! I have Malachi as well and I can imagine how fun it will be for you to see what you get out of it.

Alex. I got Elvis as a bonus last year. Going by the pictures out there I assumed I would not like it too much. It has been in a pot and bloomed for me. All I can say is WOW. I was really surprised how well the flowers opened. We have had unusually cold morning temps in the 50's and it still did well. That edge is fantastic and, is the main reason I will be planting it in a bed this fall. I find it funny that it has opened better than some of my northern hybridized daylilies. Must be o.k. with my zone 6 garden

Terri -- careful - collecting flowers and especially daylilies can be habit forming!
Yes, a map is very helpful! Also, putting the name of the plant on the blade of a plastic knife with a Sharpie marker, then putting it IN the ground with the daylily is a good idea. Daylilies need divided every few years - and you'll find that knife when you divide the plant - at least then you will know which plant it is, if all other tags get lost.

Amy....'Elvis' is a very special daylily, and very hard to find. Your Zone 6 garden should be just find for 'Elvis'. Zone 4b is just that much cooler. Elvis did add an extra fan this year. Our Summer this year has been cooler than last summer, hence my bloom season was 2 weeks behind normal.

Monday morning in the middle of August, gloriously warm, with not bad humidity at all. Today, I found some blooms that I haven't posted as of yet. So let's see what's new.




CUTTING LOOSE - Wonderful plant. Added a new fan this Spring, and sent up 3 fans with tons of buds. Has been blooming for about a month.





BUDDY'S REDHEAD - Another late bloomer this year. This daylily never disappoints. Blooms are clean. A great red daylily.





DOROTHY LAMBERT -- An old classic purchased from Oaks 5 yrs ago. Some of these older daylilies are planted in the steepest part of my mountain garden. This year I am trying to make an effort to capture them on film. Not always easy, and not always successful. Here is 'Dorothy Lambert' captured at 8AM this morning.


Edited to add additional plants. Hit the wrong button, Now I am 'finished'!!

Alex those are three beauties.

Beautiful -- your CUTTING LOOSE is superb, and that picture really shows off BUDDY'S REDHEAD too!

Terri, welcome to the addiction Wallingford Woolly Bully should grow great for you.
Cutting Loose and Buddy's Redhead, love the white edges on the reds and purples. Still a bunch of buds in the garden and a few cultivars are yet to ffo. A few recent images...

Aegean Wind, big lavender with wide petals and frequently quilled sepals.


Buffalo Springfield, finally settling in and putting on a show with a soft rose blush and fine yellow edge.


Glass Bead Game, look forward to seeing this one each year.


Rogue, hybridized by Melanie Mason so you know it's hardy, showing a good amount of red fringe this year on the edges. Odd, usually fringe/teeth are better in heat and we have had nothing but chilly weather this summer.


and a few more from the "Dog bed"

Bark At Me, this one is totally unpredictable with it's pinching and twisting .


Francis of Assisi, a shorter front of the bed plant with a saturated deep red bloom and a white edge.