Hello Patsy! I'm Jodi in Illinois, and although I'm not a newbie to perennial gardening by a long shot, I am new at having more than one daylily planted in the garden. This year we acquired several new daylilies, most in the red color palate, and added them to the growing perennial border. They are all young plants, so only a few have given blooms this year.

The one daylily that has been in the garden longer is a beautiful deep reddish mauve. I have no idea what the name is. It was given to me by my brother, has been dug up and moved three times as we've moved from home to home, has been divided to share with a friend, and is putting on the most delightful show this year! It's planted on the western side of our slightly sloping garage border in average soil with a blue/purple standard iris, a pink veronica and a struggling delphinium as neighbors. I never expected it to do so well! The new lilies are planted in the southern border, but I may move them to the western side next year depending on how they do.

Anyway... welcome to the wonderful world of daylily gardening! Good luck with your new garden!

Welcome,Patsy! It is a wonderful addiction!

Betsy

We hooked another one! lol Welcome, daylilies are a fast and wonderful addiction. What varieties do you have so far?

Jen

Thank you! Gentle Shepherd was first in the ground. :) I counted my list and have 58, mostly newer cultivars in SF/DF, many yet to arrive. Do you really want the whole list???

My top ones are Granny Smith, Wedding Gown, Princess Diana, Ava Gardner, Lava Flow and Bluegrass Music from Frank Smith.

Aral Sea (YUM), Sea of Possibilities, Beleive in Miracles, Now and Forever, and Meet Joe Black from Ted Petit.

Bit of Blue, Carol Todd, Laughing Skies, Sherry Candy, Shores of Time, Spiny Sea Urchin, Northern Giant, Ebony Pools from Stamile.

Queen's Circle from Kelly Mitchell.

Beauty of the King, Plum Eyed Delight, Tropical Pleasure, Our Friend Sally, and Orchid Elegance from Carpenter.

Rocky Mountain Twilight, Painting the Roses Red, Border Music and Stars in the Mist by Salter.

Soul on Fire by Emmerich.

From Kinnebrew's Spacecoast series -- Cotton Candy, Dream Catcher, Fantasy Flight, Snow Angel, Sunkist Splendor.

Abalone Angel and Kathy Chenet from Kirchoff.

Bonnie Holley and Promising Future by Corbett.

Fabulous Fringes and Hello Screamer by Hanson.

Also Belle Cooke, Chorus Line Kid, Hemmed in Purple, my mom's Emma T that I think is Emma Tomlinson, Longstocking, and last but not least Stella Supreme.

Dips Melissa La Branche, Sabra Saline, Tommy Bryon, Enon...and some others I don't know the name of.

I love the delicate grace and stunning vigor of the diploids! I also love fragrance. I fear the daylily is going the way of the hybrid tea rose and despite the list above I treasure my simpler diploids. But, Pop can't hybridize with them and a lot of my energy is to share this and help perk him up since he had a stroke a couple years ago. If he knew my whole list he'd have another one. :D

Call me if you see this, Poppie.....eh heh.

welcome I'm very new too---you'll love it here! cole from mendo!

Hi Pastsy. We are glad you found us as newbies are always welcome. You have quite an impressive list. Some of them are dls that I would like to have. I especially like Frank Smith cv's and have a FEW myself. I hope you will share some pictures with us as soon as you can...Ellie

Welcome to the Forum, and may I say you've gotten the bug in a BIG way. Those are some wonderful additions you made this year. Be sure to post some pics when they're in bloom.

Chris

Patsy. Guess my fingers are to big for the keyboard or my mind works faster than the old fingers...Ellie

It's big alrighty. I have daylilies everywhere, and blisters from digging. I'm keen to avoid rust and have stripped, soaked, and nipped off a few I wasn't sure of. It's getting too late for that treatment now. I want to be able to share fans with my parents--whose farm is rust free. As it stands, I'm looking at dipping unopened buds, harvesting unopened anthers, and making early early three hours runs up to their farm. Or something like that. I wanted to just put an anther in a centrifuge tube and mail it, but my mother laughed at my naivete.

Welcome! You are certainly on a fast track with your purchases! It usually takes most of us a little more time to make it to the price ranges of some of yours! You must have gotten a double dose! From Stella Supreme to Wedding Gown in one year is quite the leap! There's no going back now!

You've made some wonderful choices! Happy Gardening!

Just fyi...I think you mean Hansen (Dan) vs Hanson (Curt)...it can be very confusing!

Welcome Patsy!!! You gave me a big chuckle when I saw your list. I was expecting to see a list of maybe 10, but 58 is a GREAT start, and you have made very nice choices. What fun to have your parents 'in the business'.
Jane

Thanks gonegardening! I do have a double dose...of something!
I'm not starting out of my own driveway, I'm merging onto the interstate of my parents obsession. My father is just obsessive generally. My mother was the first female artificial breeder of cattle in the state of Kentucky. :) Compared to that, daylilies are easy. :D I serve as an effective quarantine garden for them. That *was* the explanation for the first three. Gulp. I haven't actually told them about the next 55.

It is a lot to learn, and yup, it's confusing!

Patsy,
Who are your parents? Would I know them from the Middle Tennessee Daylily Society?

Debra

I don't think you would know them, as they are in Kentucky. The daylily farm is quite a departure from their usual reclusive natures. They were kinda forced to open to the public by the sheer number of daylilies to get rid of. It's a small, low dollar farm, selling rejected seedlings for six bucks a clump. I know he has some nice plants strictly for hybridizing, but he is the 007 of daylilies. It makes it more fun for him to keep his secrets, and I only pry just enough to be satisfying.