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Feb 26, 2015 4:13 PM CST
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly"
South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b)
"The mountains are calling..."
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Ooooh, Betty, those first two are beauties! Lovey dubby

I like variegated foliage on daylilies; I just wish there were more such plants. I have 'White Stripe', but the variegation is unstable and the clump has to be periodically rogued out. (It's past overdue for such... yet another garden chore for the ever-growing list...)



I'm really surprised - and impressed - at all of the V terms that everyone has been able to pull out. The only term that I could think of was voluptuous.

The dictionary definitions are:

of, relating to, or characterized by luxury or sensual pleasure.
synonyms: hedonistic, sybaritic, epicurean, pleasure-loving, self-indulgent;

(of a woman) curvaceous and sexually attractive.
synonyms: curvaceous, shapely, ample, buxom, full-figured;
Whistling

In terms of daylilies, my idea of a voluptuous daylily is one that is ample (large flowered), full-figured (no spiders, probably not most UFs, uncertain about sculpted daylilies, and crested daylilies need not apply (too masculine, imo)), curvaceous (as in gently recurved, not flat or chalice shaped), shapely and slinky (with gently looping feminine ruffles, not wide or stiff lace edges).

‘Linda’s Magic’ seems to me to be a voluptuous daylily, at least from the pics. (I supposedly have this plant (mis-IDs happen), but I've only seen it in bloom once, and I can't recall it looking quite like this.)



'Sacrament of Healing' certainly fits the ample, full-figured, curvaceous, and shapely requirements.

Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom

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