Which two FS intros did you get?

Frank Smith Daylilies I got 2006 intro Lava Flow and 2007 intro Midnight Sensation. I haven't actually gotten them in the mail yet though.

The other one of his that I want really bad is 2007 intro PRISSY GIRL but at $200.00 for a single fan, I will wait.

Some other new ones I bought in the Lily Auction are -
Parrot Jungle - Trimmer 2005
Desert Moon - Trimmer 2005
Diamond Girl - Trimmer 2007
Mississippi Man- Trimmer 2007
Tropical Jewel - Trimmer 2007
Malaysian Marketplace - Salter 2005
Citrix - Stamile 2006

Haven't actually received them either.

I'll have to look again at Trmmer's website, but I know Parrot Jumgle. I've been trying to control myself but evertime I see it I think I have to have it, too! I hope it makes beautiful blooms for you!

It sure does look good in the pictures plus the fact that its very different. I haven't seen anything that looks like it.

As I said, nothing looks quite like it and its soooooo beautiful.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741911}}

Tropical Jewel

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741914}}

Mississippi Man

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741918}}

Diamond Girl

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741923}}

Malaysian Marketplace

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741927}}

They're lovely! *takes deep breath, puts hands in pockets*

Can someone tell me what Gary's name is on the Daylily Auction? I would like to check out some of his daylilies....
Dianne

Gary Colby is Southwestgarden I think, great seller.

Dot

Southwestgarden

The best sellar on the whole auction for sure.

I had the good fortune of visiting the Trimmer garden last April and Mississippi Man was in bloom. I wasn't leaving without it!! Fortunately, Dan had a pot of it to sell me...otherwise, I might still be in Florida. :)

It has been a beautiful performer in my garden this season!

Meg

I have resisted looking at this post for a few days now,but I looked at your pics,Rita,and now I have to go and click that darn link again! I did get Julie Newmar,Spacecoast Fancy Dancer,SC Cool Deal,SC Ruffles,Blue Oasis,Thais,Tremor,and Witch Stitchery.

Betsy

Betsy, I have the three SC that you listed and you will really enjoy them, each one is really beautiful, especially the second year on. The fist year they were kind of awful looking,

Wendy

Thanks for the info Dot and Rita. Did you get So Many Stars from him? Dot, I was looking at your picture of So Many Stars and that is a beautiful one! I think my bloom color would look identical to yours since we are both in Texas...

Dianne

Yes, I did get my So Many Stars from Gary earlier this year. The fans were huge! Now happily growing in my garden. Plus Gary also sends super bonuses with every order.

Meg- That picture of Mississippi Man just made me want it so much. I did think it was strangely named in the sense that anything that girly pink would have a name with the word man in it!

Have been bad on the Lily Auction again today and bid and won two items. Both of these are from the same seller I am getting a pile of stuff from like Mississippi Man, Diamond Girl and Parrot Jungle.

Betsy - Resistance is futile as they say in Star Trek. Will post some more links to click on. Glad to know I am not the only one been busy on the LA.

Plus I see lefox on the LA bidding on stuff too.

One of the two I bought on the LA today.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741929}}

Ledgewoods Winter Memories is the other one I bought on the LA today.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741932}}

Yes I've been weak again but I just love the colors on winter wolf-----
Got a email from Peggy Goudeau they got back from the DL national in Minneapolis---glad they got back before the bridge fell!
next years national is in Houston may 16---I want to Go!!!!!!!!!!!

NYrita you are right! Resistance is futile!!!!! Trekkies rule!
I'll be getting an order from the Goudeaus this week------have you ever checked out their site ---more temptation!!

colefox, a weak dl lover

Lefox - I didn't think anyone would bump Alicar after that bid of $121.00. I didn't bid on Winter Wolf myself even though its the one I MOST want of all the Ledgewood intros because before I even bid, the price went sky high.

At least in pictures, Winter Wolf is stop in your tracks gorgeous.

Have any of you seen these marvelous cultivars actually growing and blooming in your zone? If not, don't be so quick to bid on something that is luscious in a picture but may not be great at all in your own garden.

I have been stung many times. Sometimes I bought a picture and even though that picture was perfect in my garden, it only had a few blooms and didn't increase. Others (CLOTHED IN GLORY comes to mind here) just didn't care at all for Z4/5 and is today still a double fan after three years. If you know that is a possibility then go for it. I didn't and won't ever again.

LINDA AGIN is another example of something I will dig up because it takes up space I can better use. The few blooms it gets each year look just like the awesome pictures, but there are too few to make it a keeper.

I don't buy anything anymore. I hybridize and first look for a pretty face. Then, I look for branching and budding. After that (it takes about three years of observation after the seedling blooms) I look at the rate of increase. Some meet the first two criteria, but fail to increase. That means I can't really sell it, so I just keep it for myself.

I realize nobody really learns from other's experiences, but just thought I would tell you mine just in case you are listening.

I want to second the recommendation for caution on bidding based on a picture. These daylilies are beautiful flowers, but I always Google for images and try to find one from a regular gardener some where. In Cahoots comes to mind that went recently on LA, where the publiciy shot and actual pictures would not be identified as the same daylily. It's gorgeous, but it's not blue and white. Other pics show rosy pink and burgundy purple.

Greetings--thanks for the advice---but as you said ,you have to learn from from your own experiences--- but, I do listen and I won't stop learning, that is why this list is so helpful to me----your post was not written in vain.
I have been doing a little homework before I bid also have called some breeders and spoke to them--I must say MOST DL people have been very genrious with advice, and just not want to sell me stuff---.
I live so far off in the mountains that I will have to do a little testing----take a few chances---I would also try my hand at a littl;e breeding---
I do have to work on culture and care first--Now I have started making beds!!
ton of beds!
cole

I just wanted to comment on two shipments of daylilies from two differnt sellers on the Lily Auction I received today. None were of the ones I had linked to pictures above.

However, it just brings to mind what someone had mentioned about plant size, bonus (or not) and how some sellers seem to value ones business more than others.

Shipment one, I won three different auctions from this seller. The plants look nice and healthy and are the advertised number of fans. However, even with three wins, no bonus included. I am so used to getting extras that I find this rather startling.

Shipment two was for one fan. I almost never bid on one fan but broke my rule here. The advertised one fan is actually two very nice sized fans with a bonus plant of two small fans included.

So thats it. I just wanted to comment. Will leave positive feedback for both of course since they both shipped nice looking plants in a timely manner.

Anyone grow this one yet? Starblaze is the supposed single fan I just received from the LA today that is a nice double fan. I planted it in a spot right off my backlyard patio as I am awaiting on lots of blooms.

This is what was said about it in the auction description--

STARBLAZE (JD Stadler, 2007)(Q11-1) Panda Bear x Strawberry Lace, 30" MRe 5.75" Tet Ev, 3 branches, 15 buds. This garden standout is chartreuse yellow with a large rose eye and edge and a green throat. It will absolutely stop you in your tracks! Perhaps even more exciting than its showy color, however, is its performance in the garden. ÂStarblaze is a progressive re-bloomer with 2-3 scapes emerging from each fan for a very long bloom season. This was one of my favorites from the very beginning. Fertile both ways. VERY limited availability.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:741934}}

A bonus is a gift. You should never expect one, but if you receive one, be happy. Often the bonus is an extra fan of what you ordered. I much more appreciate this than something I might already have or really don't want.

As shipping costs and the general cost of doing business increase, expect to see less and less of those bonus plants that you have become accustomed to.

Carmen is right-- bonuses are a GIFT, and should not be expected, nor should you hold it against the grower if you don't get one.

Actually I have never before not gotten a bonus. And I do understand there is no legal obligation to do so, which is why the first order received excellent feedback from me on the auction, the daylily plants bought were shipped in a timely fashion and very nice plants of the quantity advertised. Still everyone else I have ordered from managed to send out really nice plants (in most instances great plants) many with extra fans and still include a lovely bonus.

Well, I noticed that the sales for spring shipment and delivery have started up on the Lily Auction. The one I noticed was for Sugar Glider (trimmer 2006). I am not bidding, I was just looking. Spring is too far away for me to feel confident buying now (sending my money) unless I know the seller as having bought before or a comercial grower with a great reputation.

So, its the middle of January well after Christmas but I have been very good and not bid on anything from the Lily Auction. Trying to stay out of trouble here.

but tis so much FUN there.. : )
Shelly

I am done too. I have too many coming for spring so the last thing I need is more. It is very tempting and I do visit to look at the pictures. That is what I tell myself anyway. I have limited myself to 12 new ones for spring.

Edward

I was supposed to limit myself to 5 and instead have 50 coming.

Edward, care to share what you have coming?

It is a very spidery spring. Only three are not spiders or unusual forms.

From LA

Heavenly Angel Ice
Heavenly Flight of Angels
Thorhalla

From Local sellers

North Wind Dancer
Aniakchak
Creature of the Night
Cloud Forest
James River Rose
Ah Youth
Banned in Boston

Gifts

Orchid Visitation
Lilac Cocatoo
Joan Derifield

Oops, I guess that is 13.

Ban it now! I can't stand all this talk about it! I have already bid on and won 25 seed auctions. What am I going to do now?!?!? Egads!!!

Must resist......must resist....

no! Don't click that link!!!

aww shucks! Now I've gone and done it!

nooooo!!!!!

Here's a list of the ones I've bid on and won that will be coming to live at my house this spring!
Born To Run
Lone Wolf
Something Superb
Words Of Love
Baffin Bay Beauty
Ledgewood's Silver Lining
Patsy Carpenter
Chartered Course
Innocent Blush
Raspberry Masquerade
Persuing Passion
Blue Jay Way
Marauder
Love Spills Over
Reflections Of Glory

and the rest are Munsons:
Samurai Silk
Fencing Master
Oriental Silk
Victoria Elizabeth Barnes
Aztec Prince
Enchanted Empress

Still a few bids pending.....:)

Come on Mark, join the fun....LOL
Jan

Nice additions everyone.

Jan, I really tried to get some seeds from Chartered Course. It's a beauty.

Edward, I looked hard at Thorhallia and Orchid Visitation. They are both gorgeous.

Here are the new babies coming to live at my house (keep in mind it's all new landscape and I'm new to DL)
LA wins-
Ancient Wisdom
Antique Charm
Avante Garde
Bluegrass Strawberry Taffy
Broadway Gal
Carnival Flair
Chevron Spider
Cleopatra's Jewel
Lexington Avenue
Mariachi
Miss Tinkerbell
Mynelle's Starfish
Notify Ground Crew
Passion In Paris
Persian Pattern
Prairie Tornado
Roses In Snow
Royal Kaleidoscope
Sears Tower
Tell About It
Wild Horses
Plus just over 100 seeds with favorite parents-
Clarification, Princess Dianna, Ava Gardner, Art Gallery Mist, Lavender Dusk, Lavender Tomorrow, Always Afternoon, Lady Betty Fretz, April Laquinta, Parisian Romance, Some Sweet Day, Scottish Fantasy, Spacecoast Sweetness, Spacecoast Sharptooth, Kansas Kitten, Wren Song

Ordered from the Burris'-
Bagana
Baitoushan
Jungle Fowl
Royal Flycatcher
Volcan Fuego

Still want/may order:
Milk Chocolate
Barbara Mitchell
Decatur Cherry Smash
Inherited Wealth
Pearlfisher Pink
Yazoo Jim Terry
Susan Weber

I went a bit bid crazy on LA after saying I wasn't going to buy anything for spring delivery anymore.Here are my sins...so far...LOL!
Inner View
Hello Screamer
Happy Apache
Chartered Course
Helemon
Gaugin
Frozen Jade
Camaroons
Nairobi Night
Borgia Queen
Beijing
Ruffles Elegante
Passion District
Cezanne
Lexington Avenue
China Lake
Chinese Princess

I swear all I was looking for was Chinese Watercolor!Something went waaaay wrong there!! I am still bidding on seeds.

Betsy

Geez, Betsy, were are you going to put them? I saw the pictures of your front and back gardens posted on Cha-Cha's Garden of the week links. Really nice gardens but it didn't look like you had a lot of room.

I have 2+acres,partially wooded.That is a different Betsy,although I am only 30 miles north of her.Her gardens are nice. Soooo...I have a lot of room,just no plan!LOL!

Nice selections, everyone. Edward, you'll love Joan Derifield (and I wish I had Heavenly Angel Ice coming).

Here are the most exciting of my purchases:

MALAYSIAN MARKETPLACE
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM
JAMIE DOCKERY
TWO SUES
SPICE TRADE
FRIEDA ALLEN JERRELL
LOVELY DIANE
CARY GRANT
MUCH ADO ABOUT MAGIC
SINS OF OMISSION
BORG TECHNOLOGY
SUNRISE SUNSET BEAUTIFUL
TARAS BULBA

And 31 Munsons, including these:

PHARAOH'S TREASURE
BORGIA POPE
ETOSHA
ETOSHA FLAME
WATER DRAGON

I'm in watermark heaven.

Wow Chris, 31 new Munsons, sounds like me last year!!! I can see we'll have to compare lists and do some serious trading in a year or so!! LOL

Well, as for the rest of you, I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't stay away from the LA!! :)
Jan

Ya'll are going to love my list! LOL! I went overboard on the LA, thanks to having discovered it on this forum! I have the beds already mostly made for probably half, but I'm going to be busy come spring digging up another large bed for the rest. Here they are:

Alpine Snow, Avante Garde, Russian Easter, Daybreak Fantasy, Grape Velvet, Soft Summer Night, Take Heart, Breed Apart, Moonlight Orchid, Over The Top, Purple Pinwheel, Elizabeth's Dream, Creepy Crawler, Fire Breathing Dragon, Bloodline, Bloodspot, Midnight Magic, Patchwork Puzzle, Blueberry Frost, Romanian Rendezvous, Royal Celebration, Make Believe Magic, Celtic Princess, Strawberry Lace, Dewy Sweet, Whispering, Stormy Monday, Irish Melody, Little Red Dragon, Key To My Heart, Golden Compass, Red Peacemaker, Pocket Dragon, Ornamental Focus, Wes Kirby, Night Breeze, Royal Braid, Pagan Ritual, Heavy Metal, Bela Lugosi, Prickled Petals, Dream Machine, Beyond Riches, Jordan Verhaert, Awesome Blossom, Jerry Pate Williams, Tomorrow's Glory, Francis of Assisi, Cherry Valentine, Fortune's Dearest, Carpathian Queen, Moonlit Caress, Keltic Blush, Laughing Clown, Teller of Tales, Raspberry Pixie, Galaxy Explosion, Dark Mosaic, Bitsy, Bloodfire, Fairy's Palace, Quote the Raven, Green Jay, Blueberry Lemonade, Storm Chaser, Night Embers and finally....Catherine W. Jones

Whew! But there are still a few more I would like to get for this spring, being Dracula, Creature of the Night and a few others. I have to stay off that LA!

Karen

Whew -- I'm tired just looking at that list, Karen. You have lots of great choices in that group. Make sure you take plenty of photos to share.

Chris

But of course, Chris! I love taking pictures of flowers just as much as growing them.

Karen

Whoa Karen, better space out their delivery times, or someones going to have a very sore back!
You've chosen some great ones there, however, and are going to have years of enjoyment from all those beauties.
Jan

Chris, Karen,
You've both got some real beauties coming. Hope you will post some of those pics when they all get settled in. I'm sure it will be glorious at your homes in bloom season.

BT4M