That one is really pretty! It's on my wish list too. Great color!

Shive

Well DANGGGGGG no wonder you like it. Holy Cow now I gotta go look it up, my bank account is smoking already!!!

Dotster

WOW....a beauty to behold....wait on me Dot, I've gotta look for this one too.....:)
Jan

wow, what a beauty that is. Why Chicken Fat?

Jean

Don't know it looks just like ruffles to me,,

That one is lovely. Bet they will be sold out soon with everyone hurrying after it...Ellie

(Maybe that's why I liked it...cuz it was :: this close to chicken fat, but not really?)

It is pretty, I know what you mean about not really liking chicken fat. I'm not partial to it either. I like a more delicate ruffle. It is funny though how different looks grow on ya. I', starting to see some I actually like.
that one is pretty.

I personally love the look. If someone can point me to a flower with very heavy ruffling AND decent branching and budding, I will be interested. I'm sure they are out there, but what are they?

No matter how fantastic a flower face is to me, it has no value unless it has many flowers blooming over at least two weeks. Please understand, I haven't purchased a new introduction for a couple of years, so perhaps this isn't a problem anymore.

I should have known that LSO is a Bell intro.....I love Tim Bell's daylilies, and that one is especially nice. Guess I'll just add one more to the "ever growing" wish list!!
Jan

I only have one new one that I would consider Chicken Fat. That is See His Glory.

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Oh, how did I miss this first time around? Love Spills Over is just stunning.

I do not like lots of chicken fat on a daylily myself but this one I just would say has a very nice frilly edge. Usually I personally save using the chicken fat term for those with the really wide wide jagged edges.

Someone on the AHS e-mail robin suggested the term scrambled egg instead of checken fat for edges. This way they wouldn't even have to be overdone edges. Someone else suggested the term frou frou for nicely fancy daylilies.

So in that spirit, I would say that Love spills Over is a lovely example of frou frou scrambled egg edged.

Sorry,

I'm probably being really thick here (or just British!) but what on earth is "Chicken Fat" in relation to Daylilies?

Nikki

Nikki, they are referring to daylilies with very ruffled edges. The pictures I've seen of the daylily Decadence seems to be a good example of "chicken fat" to me.

This is the best example that I have of what I would call "chicken fat" Suppose to look like the fat from a chicken.

Startle
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Tom

wow, these are just beautiful,I sure wouldn't be tacking such a ugly name on some that is this pretty.I would call it a heavely ruffled blooms.,Gorgeous blooms.

Jean

I wish I would never have heard the term 'chicken fat'. I think it has me negatively influenced about the DLs that are very ruffled in yellow. I might have a few among my many daylilies, but right now I cannot think of any. LSO is definitely one of the prettier one I have seen. Maybe I will change my mine like I did about spiders. I still do not like the bagel shape. I want mine to be big, open and voluptuous.

I did have Startle once, but it was so ugly I tossed it. I showed photos in the daylily forum and you thought it might be a tissue culture. I only paid $8.00 for it so it probably was just that. It was when I first started to include DLs in my garden. This winter when the DLs are hopefully burried under snow, every form, shape, size, color, & ruffle will start looking pretty good.

Jean has a good suggestion.

Jane

Jane,the only problem with "chicken fat" is that they tend to "hang up" in cooler weather and not open fully.Sometimes you have to help them along.

Betsy

On the Robin, someone suggested that a term better than 'chicken fat' would be 'scrambled egg edging'. It seems to me that someone could come up with an attractive term that isn't food though. Any suggestions?