Viewing post #306553 by yugo20

Betja said:I just wish the white ones were really white. White irises can be pure white, so I expected to see pure white daylilies when I started to collect them a few years back. But alas, I now understand that in the daylily world cream is white.

VOILA FRANCOIS is just about my favorite white, although for me it's a very light apricot. And I love MICHAEL MILLER too. SNOW CRYSTAL is also a nice one, but in the garden its stamens seem to turn black and that bothers me a little bit. I have Fred's LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL but it hasn't bloomed for me yet.

And I absolutely hate it when the hybridizers play with the colors on their daylily images. The one that comes to mind that I know we discussed before over in DG is the hybridizer's picture of WEDDING GOWN. But at least you can tell that that image has been modified (color was actually reduced to make it look pure white) by looking at the color of the foliage. And I've read complaints by people who later saw the actual blooms. But I also know that colors in photos can look very different between sunlight and shade in anyone's pictures, and that certainly isn't intentional. And pictures of whites taken later in the day will look whiter too, possibly because the very light color in the bloom fades away in the sunlight.

Hector, your white seedlings look very white and are really beautiful. Are any of them pure white? That would be really terrific if they are. And I love your pinks, especially that fifth one down. Really gorgeous! Some of our members who hybridize have their own threads of their seedlings, and we love it when they include the parentage of the seedlings.

Thank You Betja, I'm with you when it comes to hybridizers photos, I only buy plants once I see them pictured in someones garden, I too read all the thread you all had going at DG, Before that I though wedding gown was the answer to my prayer cause I always wanted to create a pure white and this would be one to work with, But I never bought it cause I never saw any other photos of it, And when I read the thread I knew then it wasnt for me. I want to create a real tall with lots of flowers white--white . the two that I posted stay white all day but they are not very tall, I have a bridge plant that is awesome! Its 40" some inches tall with more buds than you can shake a stick at but the color is not there yet. picture inclosed.