Only one this morning to start us off with the letter "F"....

Foliage color, most often when we think of foliage it is in relation to foliage habit, evergreen, semi-evergreen and dormant, or disease, rust, leaf steak etc. A few daylilies have variegated foliage with stripes of green and white or green and yellow.


Two threads that talk more about variegation...
The thread "Is there such a thing as a variegated daylily?" in Daylilies forum

The thread "Foliage variation" in Daylilies forum

What about shades of green and blue ? Hostas showing deep green and blue..


Daylily leaves in light green and dark blue-green.


Or frosted silvery blue like a fothergilla....

My "F" term for today will be "FFO" a term I saw people use a lot and took me a while to figure out what it meant:
"FFO:
Date of the "first flower open" or first flower to bloom, of a given cultivar. These furnish coarse bloom sequence and bloom period indicators in a specific locality."

Flowering season! We have a problem with gall midge on the early bloomers so I won't plant them unless they re-bloom. Outrageous is the worst for me, not one scape unaffected and so far no re-bloom scapes. It will go on the compost heap this year!

Late bloomers or re-bloomers are such a wonderful sight after the majority have finished for the year.

Egyptian Queen - an early bloomer that will be staying


Lighthearted Spin - another early but has never been affected by gall midge, definitely a favourite


Yellow Angel - goes on till the first heavy frost


Longfields Beauty - not listed as late but like YA goes on and on

Fragrant







...and many others (the above are ones that I have in my garden).

(I'm adding 'Hearts of Fire' to the garden this season.)

Fragrance was my first thought and FFO my second! It is so exciting to get FFO's on daylilies purchase the previous year. I have several daylilies purchased last summer that I will see FFO's on this year. Can't wait!!

I have a few new to me FFO's planted for next year too!

Frogs...I love seeing these little ones on the daylilies



Surprised no one mentioned Fringe yet....these are the only two I can think of at the moment.



Fertile.....preferably both ways.

I think daylilies are downright FANTASTIC!

Elegant Candy with frog.

Frog filled candy!

Good one!

I wish we had little frogs. Haven't ever seen any, just those darn earwigs.

"Frightening". Cindy, there's nothing like opening a seed pod and see a earwig jump out at you.

Ewwwww, yes, I hate them.

We have loads of frogs but I've never seen one on a daylily! We will be getting frog spawn in the pond soon now it's thawed, I'll watch to see if the little froglets climb on the daylilies by the pond.

Frogs - that's a good one!

We live on a creek, and there are frogs, or toads, or something that live on the banks. (Even if I got a good look, I'm not sure that I could tell the difference; our native critters here are tiny things (with incredibly loud voices) which blend in amazingly well.)

Last year I had two plastic boxes holding tree pots with daylily seedlings. Now, these boxes were on my patio, probably 60 feet minimum away from the creek banks (and another 10-12 feet down to the creek), but I was surprised to find a small frog or toad down in between the tree pots! I am not sure how it got there or what it was doing down there... looking for snails or slugs?

FFE -first flower ever, the joy of seeing the first flower ever on a seedling.

FERTILIZER!

FAN

single fan, double fan or several fans equaling a clump