Hemlady said:My Free Wheelin decided, along with about 6 other daylilies, that it wasn't going to bloom this year. I think the hard winter we had is the reason.

Two winters ago was so bad i lost all 3 Rose bushes in front of the house. One of them was at least 10 years old. All my daylilys bloomed except one and i think because it was such a small start and by next year it only had 2 small fans.
I have had others like Always Afternoon bloom their hearts out one year and almost die out the next. I ended up moving it to a place of less honor on my property and it did really great and is blooming now.
Hope you have a ton of plants and those six are a low percentage of what you have.

bluegrassmom said:I love the closeups!! The last shot is from the new Madisonville dl club. Laura is the president and also sells under Teaguewood. Here is her link and it shows the gazebo too :)

http://daylilyfans.com/teaguew...


She is working for green throats and uses a lot of Shooter plants.

@bluegrassmom, Teresa, we may have crossed paths if you went to Laura's open gardens! I went to Laura's garden a few weeks ago on June 27th when she had open house. She is also a member of the SWIDS (Southwestern Indiana Daylily Society) that I belong to. I went in the morning and was there from about 9 until 11. I had hoped to make it for the evening picnic, but my grandson's birthday party was the same day.

I took several pictures of her garden and was in awe of her seedlings. I think she said she has something like 700 named cultivars. Her raised beds made me wish I had mine like that.

Here is a picture I took that day:

@kssmith, Kevin, you wouldn't have happened to live around Lynnville, IN at one time would you? I used to know a Kevin Smith. I do not know what your signature daylily is, but is it your avatar?

@bluegrassmom, Teresa, I use Adobe Photoshop 13.0 (a gift from my kids) to crop and edit pictures, mostly crop. I saw it at Walmart for around $50. I like to take my pictures using the largest file size available on my camera, so I do need to resize the picture or it takes too long to upload to the site. I like to let my camera do the hard work because I don't like to edit the colors or contrast too much. Over processing makes a photo look just that. But at times, some of the white and yellow daylilies can really look washed out in the sun, so I do use Photoshop to darken them sometimes.

Here is a before and after picture of H. Parfait that I edited with Adobe. Right or wrong, I like to make my pictures look better without over processing. I don't think that I'm exaggerating the true color of the bloom. If I had changed the aperture setting on the camera, it would have looked like the second picture and all I would have to do is crop.

Today I took a friend to the Western Ky Botanical Garden. We started early which was good. It has been up to 94 and so humid. I took a few shots but the sun was out and wasn't good for pics. They have a collection of 500 cultivars, plus seedling it is an AHS Display Garden.

We started off with a large planting of shastas.

This is another pic that show a different area.




Orange Velvet

Stellar Double Rose. First bloom.

LINDA BECK


BLUEGRASS MUSIC


LIFE IS A HIGHWAY


FOUR EYES


FLYING BLUE DRAGON


Garden shot..

Wow, Lyle those are beautiful!

Not flowers but a pretty good shot.

Nice shot Teresa!

Here are two shots of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Wild Horses') captured with smart phone, unedited except to crop to show zoomed in view on second photo.

Daylily
'Rio Bonita' (Vizvarie, 2005)

scape height 27 inches
bloom size 6 inches
bloom season Midseason

ploidy Diploid

foliage type Dormant
bloom habit Nocturnal

bud count 24
branches 3

Color: rose pink self above green to yellow throat




Please click on image, the larger image is not fuzzy.

blue23rose said:@kssmith, Kevin, you wouldn't have happened to live around Lynnville, IN at one time would you? I used to know a Kevin Smith. I do not know what your signature daylily is, but is it your avatar?

Yes i guess its my avatar and not signature. No real guesses so its Heal Thy Spirit. I have lived in Fort Wayne most of my life but spent part of my childhood in rural Wells county 4 miles outside of Ossian. IN. There are so many of us i had 2 other Kevin Smiths just in my high school graduating class. My only hope is all of us be law abiding citizens so i never get blamed for something i did not do.

After I finished posting the question, I realized what a common name it was. I hope everyone stays law abiding citizens too, for your sake, lol!

bluegrassmom said:This is another pic that show a different area.




Orange Velvet





#3 Peggy Jeffcoat?

Doesn't look like 'Peggy' Jeffcoat to me. Besides being so very yellow the center and the edges don't look right to me for it to be 'Peggy Jeffcoat'.

Ok, I posted in a hurry this morning. The top double is Precious Beginnings.

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Precious Beginnings')


The bottom is a newer one. Rice's Voluptuous Blonde.

Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Voluptuous Blonde')

So many beautiful pictures have been posted. It's like a daylily feast!

Going back through the 2015 folder of daylily pictures, I found that I've taken over 4000 pictures of daylilies since the end of May when they started blooming. That's waaaay too many pictures, ! But here are a few of my favorite pictures.

Age of Miracles


Autumn Wood


Bold Encounter


Electric Marmalade Magic


Hakuna Matata

Teresa - What a terrific thread! It's been fun to view everyone's favorites! (These are my favorite "photos" taken this year so far!)

Here are mine (which some of these were probably posted on another thread and viewed already, but I hope worth repeating).:

Lavender Stardust:



Siloam Double Classic:



Paper Butterfly:



Seedling CCC08:



Fol de rol:



Seedling ZZZ72:



And my favorite bloom of all this year .... Seedling CCC66:

Oh my goodness, Becky! Definitely worth repeating. I love Lavender Stardust, but those two seedlings are outstanding.

Those seedlings are so NICE. L. Stardust is a favorite here too. I just love the color!

Wow Vickie really nice lineup. I've decided i like them all but Bold Encounter is really special.