Cindy, I too am stumped with the variances in Get Jiggy. One day it may have the banding and the very next day have none. From one day to the next there is no difference in the soil and often not much in temperature. I had more banding this year than ever and I bought it when it was a new intro. I have tried to notice if GJ has more pattern after a cool night or a warm night. I saw it in bloom last year at Floyd Cove and it didn't have the patterning and Karen said it had been spectacular a few days earlier. I wonder if any of the patterned daylilies have the patterns consistently. I bloomed some seedlings from it last year and think that maybe I can see "washed" areas and I wonder if eventually they will show some of the pattern of its parent. I'll try to post a photo when I get on the computer on which my pics are stored. Later.... here is the photo where I may be seeing some of the washed colors like Get Jiggy often has. This is Cool Confections X Get Jiggy (looks a lot like Jiggy)

Here is a photo of Get Jiggy last summer with some washed areas and some banding.

Thanks to all for your kind comments. Shirlee, the Annnabelle hydrangeas get sun until two or three in the afternoon, so they do well here in basically full sun. We got the koi pond cleaned yesterday and the waterfall started again after being shut down for the winter. The temps are so warm and today I sat by the pond for a while. The fish remembered that when I come around, it means food. If a stranger comes to the pond they won't come to the surface, even if fed. I enjoy my yard, but it is a tremendous amount of work.

Thanks Ann, good to know.

I am happy with it anyway. Just got me a bit angry that someone accused me of not having the right plant when I know it is because it does have some of the banding. My first year bloom had no banding at all and I attribute that to the plant not being settled in. Here is second year bloom which is much better and I am hoping this year will be even better.
GET JIGGY

I got Get Jiggy the year of introduction. It never bloomed like the intro picture. I liked it anyway, but it didn't do well here, I guess because of it being a dormant. Anyway we had a very cold winter for here and I lost it over the winter. This is the best it looked for me, but I only had it for one season. I do wish I still had it.

Dot

Get Jiggy

Your plants are not just like the photo of "Get Jiggy" but and I mean this in the nicest way, you can still see alot of the same lines, colors, eye and veins in them.They are still very beautiful to me. I think with the eye design being so intense, everyone is likely to get a different look because of the changes in enviorment. It doesn't show up as much with the solid colors with just an edge but it does in daylilies like "Get Jiggy" and I think we all will have to accept this as a fact.

Now, my opinion doesn't carry any weight, it's just mine. I had no idea how much plants could change by adding a different fertilizer or more water or more heat or more cold or 5000 other small things can affect them until I went a couple of years without taking good care of my plants and some of them just about changed color!!! It was amazing the difference I've seen. I'm back to taking care of them and I'm very anxious to see how they bloom this year. I sure hope I get my pretty colors back on some of them because they actually were ugly without care. We'll see as bloom season gets here.

I wonder what the people in the now say about this?????

Blessings to all, Mona

I really would like to buy more patterned daylilies but now I am wondering if it is really worth it. If they won't look like the pictures in my garden, why would I spend all kinds of money for them. Rings of Wonder is another lovely patterned one that I would like to try but I am still thinking about it.

Cindy,

I have learned that in my garden, I just don't have enough heat to bring on the patterns. When it does get hot for several days, I then see the patterns.

I'll wait until northern patterns for colder temps have been created before I think about spending $100 for a daylily!

And I can't wait! I love them.

I have read somewhere that some patterned daylilies need the cooler weather to see the pattern and others need the heat for it to show.

This was taken from Floyd Cove's site about Get Jiggy and the temperature thing.

The eye of GET JIGGY is never the same. While the eye can be occasionally solid it is generally broken into layers. I have seen as many as 9 bands of alternating color (the image shows 7 bands). The lighter bands occasionally take on metallic characteristics. Unlike most patterned eyes the complexity of the eye seems to be independent of the temperature. It appears in the cold weather and it appears in the hot weather.

Very interesting Michele. I wonder if it could be some mineral in the soil that is a contributing factor.

Cindy/hemlady,

The more I think about it, how can anyone judge a seedling and accuse you of not having the right parent? Granted, yes if you purchase seeds and expect a patterned (possible) seedling and you get a yellow one, then you have a complaint. Was this buyer an uninformed one who thought that a seedling is supposed to look exactly like the parent or what? Some people just do not know that seedlings do not look exactly like the parent. Even hybridizers don't get exact duplications when growing thousands of seedlings each year.

Dot

Northern hybridizer for patterns? Check Bob Faulkner- Natural Selection Daylilies. He's very good. Dayton OH.
David

I am not sure Dot if the customer has ever bought daylilies before. I know he did buy seeds from me a couple of years ago and said he had good germination from them. We emailed back and forth and all is settled. I think he understands more now since I explained it to him.Yes, you are right though,seeds may or may not look like the parent.

He has gorgeous photos, doesn't he David. I bet in person they are even better! I hope some of them get to my garden. Will wait a few years for the seedlings to get introduced and come down in price.

Thanks David!!!

Has anyone received their new Daylily Journal yet!!! Wow, talk about patterned daylilies. They have a lot of beautiful pictures of some.

Weather was gorgeous today and broke a record at 84. I took a little time for photos of some blooming plants. Click on photos if you wish to enlarge them for better viewing.

Celandine poppy aka woodland poppy


anemones


paperwhites


Phacelia



Virginia Blue Bells



Wood Hyacinths with a white primrose in the lower left



Tulips are not lasting long in our very warm weather.



Forsythia and spirea



close-up of spirea


Redbud trees - sorry about two neighboring houses in the photo

Love your place Ann!!

Now THAT is an old fashioned spirea! I found it in an old cemetery last year and remembered it from my childhood but don't see them in nurseries anymore. Sweet.

Here it is...




spiraea prunifolia simplicifolia (now that is a mouthful!)

Love VA Bluebells.

Don't know Phacelia. What can you tell me about it?

Ann,

The forsythia and spirea bed, is that where you were thinking about planting your irises? I see some in that bed? And how much room do you have for planting them? I need to know how much room you have.

Dot