Mayo62 said:

so, anything wrong with that?



Mayo

My thoughts exactly!!! Lol

I remember that someone here, but do not recall who was looking for Curt's Gift by Judy Davisson. I just saw it listed on the lily auction they also had Make It Snappy by Judy listed, both are at an unheard of low price. I already have both of these, just thought I would mention them here in case anyone is interested. I do not know the person listing them but they did have lots of feedback so must have been selling on the LA for awhile.

Becky,
If you could grab a garden budy and rent a car it would be worth a drive to see the Central FL gardens. There are so many in that area: Dan Hansen, Kinnebrew, Lambertson, Nicole Devito, Floyd Cove, Trimmer, Reilly's (I think his wife and daughter are still running it) plus Salter and Petit a little further north. They do a Mecca event the 3rd weekend of May each year. Lots of free food and plants.

Joie de Vivre can be found at Peace On Earth Gardens, Antique Rose can be found at Cottage Gardens in Medina, NY and New Creation Daylilies. This information is from an old Eureka book dated 2012 and may not be current - but you might get lucky!

Judi - Thank you for being on the look-out for me. I was very fortunate and received Antique Rose from a member here who had enough to share 2 fans with me. I may receive Joie De Vivre from another member, if they have enough to divide two fans for me.

I am now looking for Mary Ethel Anderson, Witch’s Thimble, and/or Dark Avenger. I want to see what miniatures are all about, so if I can find any of those cheap enough, I'd like to try growing them and see how I like them. All of those have rust resistance and are either ev or sev, so they might do well here in central Florida. It might be fun to hybridize some minis, too!

After those, I hope to be done for this year .... famous last words......!

alameda,
Joie de Vivre, is not listed in the current online listings of Peace On Earth Gardens, but I might still check with them being they are so close.

Becky, send me a copy of your list, it sounds like we are both looking for many of the same plants. Maybe I can buy some of them, grow them for a season then share them with you. You already have rust, so at least I would know ahead of time that I would not be introducing rust in your garden.

I have several mini's.... Small Gesture, Little Wild Flower, Double Cheeries Duet, Irish Elf, Autumn Lace, just to name a few. @ Seedfork and @ Becky if you will send me your lists I will see what I have that you may be looking for also. Donna

Becky!! Becky!!

Mary Ethel Anderson has too much dormancy in her to grow well here in my garden. I entered a scape from her in a daylily show and was a Garden Judge assisting Flower Judges. One judge said it was the saddest scape he had ever seen and the plant was 3 yr old.

Good luck!

Larry - Peace on Earth has closed. I don't think they sell any longer. I ordered a few cultivars from them last year right before they stopped selling daylilies. I believe they also downsized and are now retired from the business.

Larry and Suga - My gosh! Y'all are so helpful and generous. Honestly, I am only looking for 2-3 different cultivars of miniatures .... "just to try" for very cheap. If I can't find them cheap, then I won't get them. My budget can only stretch so far. Someone else here on the forum has also offered to send me a few cultivars (not minis). Now I need to get started on my last raised bed (or maybe not). I have two more existing raised beds in the backyard that I am going to be moving the older daylilies out (to the front yard) and putting the new ones in. There has been some extremely generous folks here that have shared some of their cultivars with me because they needed to divide some of theirs or because they knew I was looking for certain cultivars and offered to share a double fan of their plant with me. They sent me rust resistant cultivars that I want to use in my hybridizing project. I can't thank them enough!!! They know who they are! I got some really good rust resistant ratings on some of them, so I hope to one day have a garden with very few, if any, rusty foliage daylilies. And I hope I can hybridize some nice seedlings to name and register. Some of you may not know, but my plan is to name and registered some seedlings after loved ones and then gift fans of the plant to them or share with family in memory of a loved one. But my first priority was to get the rust resistant cultivars to use for my hybridizing.

My second priority is to get a very nice seedling to name after my sis, Janet. She is battling cancer and it looks like she is winning the battle for now. (I am hesitant to say "beat" the cancer, because her type of cancer has the probability of coming back, down the road.) But she went for her PET SCAN today and they said it looked great. She doesn't know yet if the cancer is completely gone at this time, but she felt sure if not yet, then very soon! So that is GREAT news! I can't imagine losing her. She is my baby sister and really the only extended family member I feel I have left. (Our parents are deceased.) We have 2 brothers, but we are estranged from both (and I don't think that will ever change). So I really want to gift my sister with a rust resistant daylily named after her. It will probably make her cry ... but in a good way.

I want to say that I really, really, really appreciate all those here who have helped me in my quest to obtain rust resistant cultivars! Without all the generous folks here, my quest would probably take a few more years longer due to my annual gardening budget. Truly, I've never met a nicer group of gardeners as all of you! I wish I could give each of you a hug of thanks! And I hope to share back your way and to pass it forward in the future. Y'all have blessed me and I hope someday someone will feel blessed by me for sharing like many of you did!

Anyway .... long winded.

Larry - I would love to share cultivars with you in the future! We are both on the same mission searching for and hybridizing rust resistant daylilies. I like that! A team effort.

Donna - What I am looking for is rust resistant minis. Just a couple cultivars. I just want to try them and see if I like them. I had never even considered smaller blooms, but maybe I should. The thread about minis peaked my interest.

Arlene - Hmmmm .... that is very interesting your experience with Mary Ethel Anderson. I correspond with Glen (Australia) and he raved about it, but read his post here: The thread "Daylily of the Day: Mary Ethel Anderson" in Plants of the Day forum

I still want to try it to see if I don't have better results like Glen did. It sounds like a good southern mini.

Hmmmm ... Peace on Earth has updated their website for 2016, so maybe they changed their mind about selling their daylilies. I don't know. Or maybe I misunderstood about their mail orders. So ..... looks like they still sell cultivars.

Whatever, Becky. You are substantially south of me, and I'm in a cool microclimate. Good luck!

Arlene - Was your MEA in the ground or a container? I am thinking of growing one in a container and use some of those water crystals added to the potting mix. I figure with a container and a smaller daylily plant, perhaps it would be easier to move it around to partial shade in the heat of summer as it may have heat dormancy?

Seedfork said:Becky,
Using your post as a starter, or maybe just starting a new thread. I would be interested in knowing how many others would love to have a thread where you post what plants you are looking for and can't find. Or even a more common problem, you have several on your want list and can only find one at each vendor and the freight is more than the daylily. Maybe that would lead to a good sell and swap site for daylilies? I can see this might be suited for the Classified and Group buys, but I was thinking a "Daylily Want Thread" might be more effective. I guess it could also be inclusive of a "Daylily Don't Want" thread. Someone's trash is always someone else's treasure.

This is my first post, hope I am doing it right!

I am looking for the daylily "Sweet Beginnings" J Joiner 1986. I do not have a photo of it. Thanks!

Beverly - nice to see a member post here on the daylily forum. Hopefully, someone here can find a lead for you.

MEA was in a box. It's my biggest one that really yields beautiful plants. Go figure.

Becky, I read your post and I am so sorry about your sister. I hope and pray she makes a full recovery and beats the cancer. I too, like you, am naming some plants for family members. My two daughters already have a plant named after them and I want to register a plant for each of my two nieces. It's kind of odd or funny but I also want to name a plant after my two deceased cats to keep me reminded of them. They were just as much part of the family. Can't wait to see your blooms this summer!!!!

ilerlily,

Photo of 'New Beginning'

http://plantlust.com/plants/he...

Small Flower suggestion:
Enchanter's Spell is an older small flower than can be bought for $5.
Enchanter's Spell 1982 Hudson 3" bloom is listed as rust resistant. I would like to have it but it has not been on any of the sellers lists that I have purchased plants from. I do have 8 children from it since it has made 28 daylilies. I would also like to have Little Witching Hour which is also a child plant of Enchanter's spell but have not ordered from anyone who sells it.
If you look at the child plants from Enchanter's Spell you see lots of variety. I am not sure if it takes the characteristics from the other parent or there is something in the genetics that created various colors and eyes. Anyhow it is a suggestion of one to try.

I'm looking for (among others ) Fearfully And Wonderfully Made. If anyone has this one, please tree mail me.

I took this pic last year at Tom Bruce's Carolina Daylilies, where he has it in his hybridizing bed: