Benjoe90 said:Im also a little late to the thread. But what i would like is more diversity of the foliage. We need to get them to the point of hostas, with all different colors, verigations, leaf shapes, and textures. It would be nice to have some blues and yellow foliage.
Also i would like a truly giant daylily. Like the size of some big ornamental grasses, like pampas grass. But with that we would need larger flower
I'm a little late joining in too! So many cool ideas being presented.
We already have dark and black scapes. Just look at the color of Vader's Choice!
Also look at the foliage in the image.
Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd' has a silver overlay with blue.
In the dl sdlgs it looks like this...a "blue" sdlg in with normal green. The silver fades out with heat and direct sun, bluer in the cool morning and shade. Who knows, blue foliage might be possible.
Yellow, funny you mentioned that. Normally starting sdlgs inside during winter is pretty boring, not this year. Imagine my surprise to see this cross sprout! (Feb. 23rd)
The yellows grew and a week later started to turn green. Two months after sprouting the majority of the yellows were green. In the group of 50 seeds were 5 variegated sdlgs, I think 22 yellow( dog ate my sticky note
) and the rest green. I took the tray out for the last image, April 23rd. A few of the yellows never turned green and died. There's white twist ties sticking up to mark the variegated sdlgs for later planting.
The cross is using a yellow/green variegated sdlg, parents Ride the Wind X Huckleberry Candy, that I've had for a long time. Done a few crosses over the years, never seen anything like these yellow sdlgs.
Now an interesting sidenote - 'Polish Chameleon' is a sport/mutation (?) of Ride the Wind which is registered as having yellow spring foliage that turns green.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Polish Chameleon')
Is there something wonky with Ride the Wind? Huckleberry Candy frequently throws albino sdlgs, which of course die, but is there a connection between albino, yellow and variegated? Will these sdlgs be yellow again?
Giant daylilies. A friend of mine sent me 3 sdlgs several years ago to test. They are HUGE. Both plant and scape. When blooming scapes approach 6 feet with nice branching, foliage is waist high on 5'5" me. Blooms are yellow, all 3 have a slightly different bloom shape/size, all 3 are late bloomers. Here's images of 2 of them.
You can see how massive the plants are compared to regular tets in the same beds. The pink UF in the first image is Webster's Pink Wonder.
Your ideas are not so far fetched and with focus and work ...maybe possible.
