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Feb 19, 2015 4:18 PM CST
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly"
South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b)
"The mountains are calling..."
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Thumbs up for the Near whites. I have several; here are a few of them...







Nocturnals, in my experience, can be difficult to place in the garden; you don't want the nocturnal closing up and/or melting apart in the afternoon, when the nearby diurnals are still fresh. It just looks bad. You almost have to put them in some out-of-the-way location not near any of the diurnal daylilies, so they don't suffer from a visual comparison. Yet, because you want to enjoy them, you need to put them somewhere you will be sure to pass (or stumble) by them in the evening. (I have some vague recollection, which could be totally wrong, of something I once read... that EMOs have nocturnal genes somewhere in the background. Lovey dubby EMOs, at least if they are also CMOs.)

I think this is the only nocturnal that I have in the garden at the moment:



For "my" N, I am tempted to put Need. Don't we all always think we need this or that (usually new and $) daylily?

But in reality, I think that is really a Want... though I do believe that every temperate garden, no matter how small, needs at least one yellow daylily - because they are so cheerful.

Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom

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