Another topic, the weather does make all the difference. I am sitting here posting because it is 96 outside. I should be spraying weeds and grass to get a new area ready for 5000+ seedlings to be planted as soon as we get a cool down, probably in Sept.
(we will be looking forward to 2016 and 2017 and the new blooms from some first time parents)
Ashton used Tet Texas Kaleidoscope and Tet Super Fancy Face as well as Supernatural and Dragonfly Dawn. I used 4 of Carpenter's Kaleidoscopes for Dips.
I tell of the summer of 2011, where believe it or not we have records as being the hottest place in the entire USA. Also in 2011, the coldest temps ever recorded in our state preceded the hottest summer ever. Some towns around here had a temp range from the winter record of 31 below zero to a summer high of 115. My dad is like the weather service around here and has kept detailed weather records for over 50 years. He is not a weather person, just a farmer and gardener. That year it was 96 on May 24th and that was the second lowest temp until Sept 17th. The avg temp in July of 2011 was 90.3 and the hottest avg temp month recorded in the US for any month. The avg temp in Aug 2011 was 89.7 and the hottest avg temp for the month of Aug on record. For that summer we had 63 days over 100 degrees. We set some seeds but by harvest time only had a handful of pods that had not cooked off. Not one seed germinated for us that year. Ashton went to the Lily Auction so he could have some seeds. (I guess I did too)
We did loose some daylilies that year including an entire order of the only full collection that I have ever purchased.
Terry
This Beautiful Edgings seedling is 45 inches tall with 4 branches and 28 buds.
The scape is as strong as any Tet.
