Awesome, Dianne! I did a double-take at Cordial Colors and then saw your comment. I can see why it stops you in your tracks, lol!

My C's that haven't been featured yet:


Canter


Carmel Dip-one of my favorite smaller flowered dips


Center Event


Charmed I'm Sure-first year flowering after being moved several times to find the right spot. Apparently that's a small pot.


Comic Strip


Coral Corduroy-sorry about the bad picture but this was it's first year blooming and it only had two flowers. It should be better this year.

Charmed I'm Sure is a very nice example of a hose-in-hose double. And I love the colors on Center Event!

And don't worry if others have already posted pictures of the ones you have. If I held myself to that rule, I wouldn't be able to add anything.

Besides, we neeeeeed more pictures in the winter.

Thanks Nan but last year was so ridiculously rainy that I have very few good pictures of any of my daylilies. I'm having to go back and find older pictures and that is just taking too much time. Easier to just post the ones no one has seen.

The only way I can find anything is by labeling them as I take them ( phone camera). Then I can just type in the name and hey presto, every photo I ever took of that plant pops up.

I really like Carmel Dip and Comic Strip. They even sound good together!

Carolina Cranberry


CLINTON ATTAWAY


CHARLES JOHNSTON


CHARLIE PIERCE MEMORIAL


CANADIAN BORDER PATROL


CHORUS LINE


CONGO MAGIC (FIRST YEAR)


COUNTRY UNCLE

Oh, those are just lovely, Alma!

I have a folder for my best pictures. As I go through the new pictures of the season I add them to that folder with its name. If I can't remember the name at the time I add it as a noid and come back later and relabel it. Garden photos are listed as such with its own number following. No more searching through thousands of pictures.

Mike I have a similar system but I take so many pictures each season that I don't have time to sort the good from the bad until winter. And sometimes the best picture for a plant for a specific year isn't very good at all. So while it will go in the best photo file for that year I won't post it.

here's what works for me. I take around 7+ thousand photos every year. After I take a group of photos, I add metadata to each photo file with a detailed description of each plant. I select some of the photos and upload them to my Flicker account (currently, I have about 46,000 photos on Flickr). On my local computer, I put all photos in one current year folder. Most photo management programs (like Apple Photos) will index the folder for you and display desired photos of any given plant in seconds. Of course, you can add as many folders to be indexed as you like.

End result, I can quickly search the photos I have taken over the past 10 years or so. The key to doing this is to add metadata to every photo that you take.

oh yes, sites like Flickr read your photo metadata and allow you to search as well.

@Bxncbx, Elena, I take multiple pictures of good to excellent bloom each day and sort them out at a later date due to work schedule. Frank has a good system in place. I am not familiar with Apple. I am seriously thinking about moving up to apple when windows ten reaches its preplanned end of life cycle. I was told that my current PC is not able to take the windows eleven upgrade.

I'm not sure if I like or hate this C-thread - so many beauties that I've never seen before and so many completely out of reach here in Europe

These are the ones that I grow:

Cajun Sunshine - a gift that turned out into a keeper


Calamity Jane - this one I saw flowering in a collector's/hybridizer's garden in Italy and even if I'm not a fan of ruffled ones I had to take it home, unfortunately the camera isn't able to catch the real beauty of this cultivar


California Classic - bought for its late bloom time, quite new, didn't flower late up to now


Cast a Spell - miniature flowers, beautiful


Catherine Neal - late


Charon the Ferryman - late


Cheerful Eyes, small flowers, reliable northern rebloomer


Chipmunk - star in my chocolate, caramel and cream bed

true colors of this cultivar are hard to catch with my camera - this picture shows them better:


Claudine's Charm - flowers late here, huge flowers, excellent color

often very blue tones:


Clementine VT - not registered Olallie plant


Condilla - flowers late here, 100% double hose in hose flowers


Coral Majority - a late one with a fantastic color, camera doesn't catch it - it screams through the garden, seems to glow in sunlight, shows a pink halo around the throat - this is my best picture but it's far from good

usually you see a not very prominent eyezone on quite pale flower color at pictures of this cultivar, if observed live this eyezone is NOT visible, the color of the plant is totally different - typical example:


Coral Sparkler - miniature with a distinctive flower form


Cosmopolitan - good color, well-known miniature


Coventry Countess - tet miniature, prolific bloomer, beautiful flowers

a closer look:


Crimson Pirate - flowers for many weeks (here more than 2 months in good years):


Crow's Feet - relief


Crystal Blue Persuasion - more than 50 shades of blue

As usual, Sue, beautiful pictures! The variations of Crystal Blue Persuasion are stunning! Thanks for compiling them--that must have taken some time.

DeweyRooter said: As usual, Sue, beautiful pictures! The variations of Crystal Blue Persuasion are stunning! Thanks for compiling them--that must have taken some time.

CBP is one of my all time favourites - I think I have takten hundreds of pictures because I'm so fascinated by the different hues of blue it shows depending on night temperatures and weather - the compilation was made several years ago when I was asked to describe the color of the cultivar.

Great set of C's, Sue! Although I am not a big fan of the sculpted relief form, I think the name Crow's Feet is ingenious! I love Cajun Sunshine!

blue23rose said: Great set of C's, Sue! Although I am not a big fan of the sculpted relief form, I think the name Crow's Feet is ingenious! I love Cajun Sunshine!

I've got Crow's Feet (the plant) from a friend living in Northern Germany (my own are from working in the sun for many years) - there it flowers at the end of the season (la/Vla) and she thought that I can use it for my hybridizing programm. - In my garden it is flowering not late up to now. :thinking:
I was not a big fan of the relief form too but this year I've ordered another two to get familiar with this trait - my garden shows the broad variety of hemerocallis hybrids - at least as far as I'm able to get the latest breakthroughs.

@Hazelcrestmikeb & @frankrichards16 you both have great systems. But I don't think I have the time to use either one. I get up early to take pics each day of every bloom. I do this because I need to figure out what crosses to make each day. And because the bees will steal all the pollen! I've tried doing it the night before but I'm awful at predicting which flowers will open the next day so I was making a bunch of tags that were useless. I'm out so early that most of the flowers aren't fully open and some have barely started opening. So most pictures taken during the week are not good. I have more time on the weekends so that's when most of my good pics are taken. Too bad the daylilies don't cooperate by all having perfect blooms only on the weekend!

I take all my pics with my phone and I have no idea how to add metadata to them except by importing them into another app. Way too time consuming for me to do until winter. So I spend most of winter looking back at my pics and trying to figure out the different cultivars by garden position and general color since most of the flowers are only somewhat open. Then I try to find the best pic of each cultivar. Last year was awful for that because it was so rainy/cloudy most of the flowers are barely open or destroyed by the rain. this year isn't so rainy.

Elena, on my phone, as soon as you take a photo, you push it upward with your thumb and a space is revealed that says " add caption". When you click on that, your keyboard pops up and then you can type whatever you want. It adds a little time to the photo process but so much easier than trying to figure it out later!

I always feel embarrassed going through my phone pics in front of people. Most are of flowers, plants, animals, or landscapes. I have pretty much zero photos of human beings as they are just not as interesting.
And even then I use people as size scale markers for the plants.