Why not both. Treat yourself !

Yes Nikki I say both. But you know me, I enable
Just picked up a couple on the LA yesterday
Baby's Got Blue Eyes
Fire Pegasus
Giganotosaurus

Wow, hard choice. I like the colour of Hakuna Matata, but it is very tall and a larger flower. If the small size of Star Child is one of the reasons you like it, and keeping the small size of Star Child is a priority, then I would go with Little Wild Thing.

Mike, don't we have enough enablers here?!

LA is bad, bad, bad!!

Won Blazing Cannons,
Blue Jay Tapestry,
and Webster's Pink Wonder.

Worked Sunday to move and replant several clumps to make room for these new lovelies in the spring...

I keep forgetting that all these purchases represent work for me in the future!

Tut, tut, Mike and Ginny! Here is me trying to be restrained and what help do I get from you two?--Honestly!

Although if it wasn't for the fact that it goes over the postage limit I admit that I would bid on both but it would be another $13 postage.

First lot finishes in about 4 days (the Hakuna Matata x Star Child) so have time to decide. It is difficult as I have a lot of seeds now but with the daylily import ban I keep thinking I need to get new genes now, esp. If the European market is closed to us also after brexit.

Panic buying at its best (worst?)

Edited to correct spelling errors.

Good luck with your decision Nikki Hmmmmm panic buying - novel idea

Pizza, cold beer, and a lawn chair!

Charley

Throw in some wine and I'm with you

Nikki,
Go ahead and buy them (says she who has bought nearly 100 crosses this year)!

Message the seller...they may be able to fit in another pack without having to charge more postage. Doesn't hurt to ask!

Can't wait to see pics of your babies!

Thanks Regina,

I put a bid on the Hakuna Matata cross but the other bidder clearly really REALLY wants them so they are above what I want to pay. Will bid on the Little Wild Thing cross and see what happens.

Will be a long time though before I can post pics, seeds take a looooong time to flower here as our growing seasons are so very short-- 5 years (or even longer) is not unknown for daylilies if you don't have heated greenhouses or specialist set-ups.

I had a seed breakdown this year too. Worst part is, I cant even find a place for all the plants, what Im going to do with these seeds is beyond me. Dream I guess.

Scatterbrain said:...seeds take a looooong time to flower here as our growing seasons are so very short-- 5 years (or even longer) is not unknown for daylilies if you don't have heated greenhouses or specialist set-ups.

Do you think your generally cooler summers have more to do with that than short seasons? Do you get a lot of cloud cover? Are you growing near or under trees? Is there a lot of shade on your seedling plot? Are you feeding enough? Traditional gardening lore says that too much nitrogen promotes rank growth and fewer flowers/fruit. Not only has that been disproven, but as monocots, daylilies are gross feeders that demand a good supply of nitrogen.

Rich Howard of CT Daylilies has a Dan Trimmer article on his site explaining this;
http://www.ctdaylily.com/trimm...

US growers in zones 5 and 6 can see a good portion of their crop bloom in the second season from winter-sown seed. In that situation, anything that hasn't bloomed by the end of the third season is unlikely to be anything special, and even if it were to have a nice flower, something with so little vigor probably shouldn't be saved.

@gardenglory, Hi Pam, I know the feeling!

@JamesT

Hi James, I suspect that it is a combination of both, we get generally cool,wet gloomy summers with heavy cloud cover, plus we are at latitude 54 degrees north, at the moment we are down to fewer than 9 hours daylight each day and it is mainly very grey light, by dec21 it will be between 7 and 8 hours.

There isn't much tree cover in my garden and I supplement the soil with manure and alfalfa and feed with seaweed fertiliser.

I am afraid that daylilies and the British climate aren't really made for each other but I like them too much to give them up.

I think I might as well quit saying no more daylilies for Spring and I'm done now

Just added:
Hawkman
Ghost and Goblins
A Kiss At Midnight

And Jackie you don't need to rub it in either I'm thinking if I keep this up I'll have to add another garden and call it either my "I Need An Intervention Garden" or "Daylily Addict Garden".

I said nothing

Ginny, I checked in just to see what you've acquired in the last day or two. So how many cultivars are you up to now, 75,000?? You know, my short yellow bus can stop by your place with a straight jacket, load you in, and take you off to Daylily Dreamland! Their behavioral conditioning is state-of-the-art!! They'll fix you right up!! Now, you may walk out of there with a limp and a twitch, so don't ever do anything illegal, after your release, bc you'll be too easy to describe and identify!!

Dana you do crack me up

You can get rid of those angel emojis - we know better

I just ordered five of the new 2018 Trimmer introductions:

CATHEDRAL OF LIGHT
HONEYSUCKLE SUMMER
JANE'S WONDERMINT
RUBY STARBURST
STARFISH WISHES

Since I'm leaving on a month-long trip to Iowa on Sunday and the Trimmers' website has not been updated yet, I went into the Advanced Search on the AHS Database and found them, and then I emailed the Trimmers to request and confirm my order and mailed in my payment yesterday. YEA!!!

They say their website should be updated shortly, but it sounds like their newbies are in short supply so I'm really glad I contacted them before I left.