And be sure to have some business size cards printed with it on them so when...um, if you guys get caught you have "Get Out of Jail Free" passes.

we will need "get out of jail free" passes for sure with this hilarious bunch. We'll get caught before we even get started because they'll hear us laughing our butts off.

Well we could have so much fun all of us together that they would open the doors and beg us to get out of the clinker within the 1st. hr.

For sure you will getout- the guards will be driven nuts with all the giggling....

Jan aren't you coming with us to Fred and James?? You have to, we need a spotter.

Ya'll give me a great big SMILE!!!

Looks like James and I are the ones who will need a spotter.

I am open to bribes.... Who wants me to be the spotter the most?

Recieved the 2011 fall collection from Pete Harry yesterday, the largest box of daylilies I have ever recieved from anyone. The 15 plants where all suppose to be double fans except Scarlett Blaze which should have been a single, it turned out to be a triple. The others were all three, four, five and six fans. I should have recieved 29 fans total, I recieved 52 fans, all blooming size.


They are now planted, the double fan in front is a replacement of April Smith I lost this year.

WOW! Very nice!

Pssssst - Hey Michele, he planted the fall order....... ~j

Wow how generous. That is so great as you will get clumps so much sooner and then you can share Barbara with Michelle(Hint Hint)

He has a stunning collection this year and should make some great kids. Any plans in particular Fred?

Fantastic collection -- I'm soooooo envious! And maybe by the end of the summer you'll be offering some on the LA? Hope so!!!

What an awesome order you got Fred. Do the hybridizers usually send bigger plants if you order a whole collection? I always pick and choose.

Dot

I've only ordered individual plants, never a collection, from some of the hybridizers, (Trimmers, Floyd Cove and Maryott's off the top of my head) and they usually send beautiful huge fans even of other hybridizers' daylilies -- and usually at least triples. Plus they send wonderful recent introductions as bonus plants, so I'm sold on purchasing from the hybridizers!

Wow! that was quite a haul you got Fred. Lucky you. You may want set up some barbwire and a trip wire around them though. Michelle and crew will be around to make off with them soon. Maybe you could get one of those alarm companies to watch them for you.

SSSShhhhhhhhhhh don't let Fred hear you guys. He may just sit up all night with the spot light and shot gun

Shhhhhhh-ing

I ordered the fall collection because of the size of some of the blooms, (7" to 8.50"), I want to start working with some extra large flowers (over 7"). His last years collection had about seven extra large and I also have kept them. I want to incorporate some of that stuff into my seedlings next year to get something bigger than 5-5.50 inches. I chose his flowers because of the tight ruffling, these will not have a tendency to hang up like the big looping ruffles. This is one of the reasons I love HAPPY HAPPY I still think it's the most perfect eye and edge daylily ever and I will put some of these extra large on my HAPPY HAPPY seedlings.









GREAT AMERICAN PIE PAN should go great with any of these(may be only in my mind)










On a more serious note, I have two sons in the security business so I want have a problem after they hang the motion cameras.

Hahahahaha....my sneaky kids will teach me everything they know first..... And the movies, I am watching every movie I can find to get tips for sneaking....

Fred, I think you are correct about the light ruffling instead of the heavy ruffling. I don't have many with ruffling, but one of mine did hang up on a couple of blooms this past summer. What good is it, if it doesn't open well? I hadn't thought of light vs heavy ruffling, and it makes a lot of sense. See I learn something every day!

I also admit, I am a sucker for large flowers, can't wait to see some future seedlings ~Jan