@HemNorth,
Love that group shot of 'Raspberry Pixie' with 'Siloam Tee Tiny' - and 'Heidi Edelweiss'.

In another thread high bud count and branching were mentioned as being one thing to consider in selecting daylilies, and recently I have ordered some plants based on just that. I would love for anyone who is the proud owner of some of these 30-50+ bud wonders with high branch counts up to 5-12 now, to post some clump shots of them.

Larry! I'm curious about high bud count more for potential food resources... But then I think everyone ought to grow some sort of food!

I grow tomatoes and peppers for food, my daylilies are treated for rust so I don't think I will be tempted to eat them.

I put up with 28 tomato plants I like almost all things made with 'maters, but I can't stand fresh ones...Tomatoes are DH's domain.
I do grow squashes and melons, onions garlic and salad goodies... And nasturtiums, pansies and daylilies to snack on, along with a bunch of other fruits. I tell my kids to go eat their way through the field.

I agree with not eating flowers if they're treated....

Back on topic...

Sallie Farley earlier this season- photo from 3/19.


A recent shot... Wish it had scapes...

They are really pretty when dormants start emerging.That is a beautiful color on the foliage.

After the months of brown- any green is pretty to me!

Gee, Diana, you must have the same conditions as me. That's how I feel every Spring. Although we do get a fair bit of snow here. But every Spring it's the same dead brown flat nothing here for what feels like months! Ug.

Connie, we didn't seem to have anything for snow. No sledding or igloo making this winter... Just dead brown... So when it greens up, I start breathing again.

I've only been living in Alberta since 2008 and it's really hard to accept the Spring conditions here. I grew up in Ontario and B.C. and spent most of my adult years on Vancouver Island, so I whine and complain and pout until I see things start to green up again.

I hear you. The things I love about winter (no mowing no weeding!) are the same things I hate come spring -can't mow, nothing to play with in the dirt and no green!

Here is a picture of Blackeyed Stella clump blooming 11 flowers today:

Very nice, I wonder how many blooms there will be on some of the clump photos posted? Ten has been the most for me so far on one clump. Still hoping to see some of those high bud count with extreme branching plants in a clump photo, I am curious if they actually form full clumps?

Larry, decided to post this pic of the old Hyperion plant we moved down to our garden. We don't know how old it is, but you can see how big it is and I don't think I can get the absolute number of flowers, but it is definitely in the 20's. This is not a recent picture, I took this probably five years ago. Also, now this plant has been divided, and fans have been given to other people.

That is a beautiful clump, and it looks like it is also in the shade. I do think taking photos of clumps in slight shade makes a better photo most of the time, but I'll bet the plant would have had even more blooms in full sun?

Yes, when this photo was taken, Hyperion was in shade until approximately 1030-11-a.m. It is on the south end of this garden. The one on the north end does not bloom as well, obviously since it is in shade much more, but it does get sun around mid-afternoon from then until sunset.

I had these two this morning:
'Crimson Pirate' with 11 blooms.

'Filled With Joy': 12 blooms

I like your clump photo much better because of how the blooms are displayed, they go from low to high in the photo and are not all grouped at the top.

I think they're all gorgeous, Larry! It sure makes me feel bad about my overplanting--mine have no room to clump up!

I think most of us tend to start out planting too closely in order to get more plants in the area we have. I know I did, I think I started at 18 inches, finally worked up to 36 inches center to center, decided that was over kill and am now back to thirty inches, center to center for most plants. Some plants would be better left at the 36 inch spacing and as I get more experience on which ones really tend to spread I am going to work on spacing more adjusted to the individual plants. I have several that would be just fine with the 18 inch original spacing, don't they all look so small when you first get them?

Not a great shot today as I didn't have a chance to take with cloud cover. A very hot 89 degrees here today (for April temp, anyway ) Will try to get a better one tomorrow or in the next few days as more bloooms open.
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