Oh dear, I lost several hours work on a post again. I am trying to get the energy to try again. I hate it when I close the browser instead of the photo. A miniature version follows.

Flowering for the first time in the garden this season. It was so dry so I sprinkled the beds last night. Some water got into the blooms.

CLASSIC ROMANCE


BAT MASTERSON


CLEDA JONES is big bright and beautiful. The clumps are wonderful. It doesn't do dormant here.



Seedlings flowering for the first time ever.

Dragon KingXJC Memorial 2016 2,12,2


That sepal then blew off.


All the Magic XVolaris 22,12,5


KING LAMONI x HEARTS AND LACE 2014233
Hereby hangs a tale. This is the first cross I ever did years ago. (I wouldn’t use ‘Hearts and Lace’ now - rust). One day about a year ago, I found a plastic lunch bag crunched in the bottom of the fridge's crisper. The seeds were dehydrated, crinkled and light weight. I was all set to put them in the bin when a whim made me plant them. Miracles - every seed germinated. This is the first to flower.


Others
Seedling CRAZY MISS DAISY x WAVES OF JOY 2014 223


Seedling WESTBOURNE TID BIT x JOSIE 2014230
This is growing on me. They are cuddle blooms: blooms that can get up close to each other and look neither cramped nor squashed.


Seedling CRAZY MISS DAISY x WAVES OF JOY 2014 227


COOL RUNNINGS

Gorgeous! Cool Runnings

' Cool Runnings is a real eye-catcher!

Your pics are so good Glen, n the blooms magnificent. Great that u planted the HEARTS AND LACE crosses. It seems to me that even probability doesn't help much in hybridising for rust resistance. Some with rusty parents can be very resistant (PIRATES PATCH) while others with resistant ancestry can be badly susceptible. ????? However, from looking at NGA, it appears to me that having WEDDING BAND or ROCKET CITY in the ancestry means an unacceptable risk of bad susceptibilty. Any one know of other culprits???

Today I had first flower ever on MOROCCAN SUMMER a swapsie from Glen. It is a lovely colour. Think a petal?/?sepal delaminated itself so it looks like thick pollen.

The NOID red was very dark this morning and did well in the sun today. Also had almost constant gusts between 40 and 45km/hr.


Yellow Gold NOID again had a damaged sepal. Think they were more trumpet shaped last year. It is under a SIlky Oak which is a native to these parts. A very tall tree so I keep lopping them. Hope one day to graft other shrubby or prostrate grevilleas onto it.

I'm roaming the night cloaked in darkness. No one knows. Where are those swift moths?

All the MagicXVolaris 2,12,2


HEARTS AND LACE


Some strange amoebas. Danger.


ORANGE NOID


WESTBOURNE TID BIT x JOSIE 2014230


COOL RUNNINGS

Love the color of All the Magic x Volaris.

Those seeds from your King Lamoni x Hearts and Lace cross were determined to do something

Glen. That creamy apricot polychrome sdlg looks so nice I wld b sad whenever its blooms finish for the day. Aren't we lucky to have pics. Half the fun with daylilies.

I had 2 KELLY'S GIRL OUT today but thought I should keep my distance from the ones on the slope having bumped off 3 buds from a COLLIER and one off GREEN MYSTIQUE. Fortunately more buds left, and including ones about to open.

Glen - Lovely blooms as always. I love the show of blooms that you and Bron are sharing.

You asked about other rusty parents. Admirals Braid is another genetic I avoid in any cultivars that I might consider.

Bumping buds off drives me mad Bron. I feel like a grazing rhino sometimes. Some horrible people say I am the size of one sometimes. They never say it again, however, when I stomp on them.

Flowering for the first time this season. There was much rain last night apparently.

TRIAL BY FIRE, both clumps at once



LINDEN CAPRICIOUS. Oh no, where did that foot come from. I think the bloom needs some sun but there is none anymore


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COOL RUNNINGS. It is very difficult not to photograph this cultivar every day.


ADMIRALS BRAID


A pyroclastics of ASH ROSIES


More clumps of CLEDA JONES are out


TROPICAL HEATWAVE


Seedling CRAZY MISS DAISY x WAVES OF JOY 2014 227


SCARLET LACE


TINY PUMPKIN never did well until I dug it out and moved it.

MALENY DEBUTANTE


MARCIA FAY


Another clump of MOROCCAN SUMMER up and running


BRAVE KEMO SABE finishing for the season


BILL NORRIS


The hooded seedling WESTBOURNE TID BIT x JOSIE 2014 221




Cat hacking NGA database to download daylily people who don't visit this thread.

I'm all agog at that last post Glen. So many stunning dl's. The colors! Be still my heart.

>>>COOL RUNNINGS. It is very difficult not to photograph this cultivar every day.<<<
Amen to that! If I had it, I would be photographing it 400 times each day!

Then to top it all off there's Kaspar. That cat is something else.

Glen you crack me up AND you have gorgeous blooms

Gleni said:


Cat hacking NGA database to download daylily people who don't visit this thread.

The face says it all!

Now that I'm caught up on the thread, will Kaspar please stop with the "look"?

Gleni and Bron, your blooms are sigh-worthy.
There's something about the shape of Seedling MDBXALL THE MAGIC 2011 035 that draws my eye and the orange NOID- I keep trying to stay away from the oranges, but I'd have that one!
Kelly's Girl- that green throat... The rib on Marcia Fay...


It makes me long for spring, even though I am completely over pulling weeds and picking tomatoes for the year...

Can't wait to see what else blooms for you this year!

A little bit of rain and the usual wind but no sunshine which at this time of year and later is quite welcome. Colours pretty true to life today, and blooms have a crunchy look. However, VINTAGE BORDEAUX buds had been cooked a bit, so today FFOS


I love PICCADILLY PRINCESS. Not big, but good substance, and long blooming


Alexander's unregistered 'Maleny Eyecatcher'. sure is.

Down below the animal track, FFOS COLLIER. It has size, sculpting, edge, substance, pretty rust resistance, good bud count and rebloom. Looks yellow,green, gold and apricot. I thought Glen would love this one ???

And FFE on one of the cheapie unknowns, T4. reminded me of ARABIAN MAGIC but is bigger, darker, and edge is gold, not silver

Thank you Diana. I have wondered about Seedling MDBXALL THE MAGIC 2011 035 too. It seems to have elongated tepals or something. It is easily recognizable even if I get confused with what yellow is what sometimes. The other thing is it has a metallic gold edge so if the yellow of the flower fades during the day the metallic edge doesn't. This gives a white limned in gold. I don't have a picture on this computer but will find for you. Here is a night time shot.

I do have my eye on Collier, Bron. Rust resistance is too good to miss. I have shunted it into the sculpted project. I think it looks as good as America's Most Wanted.

The Alexander's 'Maleny Eyecatcher' you gave me are sending up blooms everywhere too. His cultivars always have something. Heavens knows why he decided to stop registering his blooms.

Paralysis tick again. It knocks me about for a few days now I am getting older.

During the colder months this year I had a battle with root rot involving five clumps. However, after much wrestling, I only lost GLOW MONSTER. I think its demise had a lot to do with the papaya I let grow near it. DALRIADA was near Glow Monster. I shifted it too and now it is a bloom machine but Glow Monster passed on.

RIP

Sorry to hear you lost Glow Monster.

Gleni said:Bumping buds off drives me mad Bron. I feel like a grazing rhino sometimes. Some horrible people say I am the size of one sometimes. They never say it again, however, when I stomp on them.