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Please Help: Looking for Full-Body Daylily Photos!

13 years ago

I'm interested in acquiring daylilies, but it's hard for me to gauge how they would look in a garden, as the photos posted of them are usually close up, and don't really show the entire flower, leaves and all - how they actually look in a garden.

I was wondering if anyone here would be kind enough to add a few photos to this thread of their daylilies in their garden, including the foliage (kind of a like a full-body shot of a flower :o) so that I could get an idea of how the flower actually looks?

I'd reapply appreciate if anyone would be kind enough to assist in this quest for full-body daylily photos. Thank you so much.

Comments (7)

  • 13 years ago

    Hi Kendra, If you search this forum for "clump shots" or "garden pics", you might find the type of pictures you are lookin for.

    Here is a photo of one of my favorite daylilies - SPIDER MAN

    Here is SPIDER MAN (in the center) again showing the entire bed -

    Here is the same bed at dusk from a different angle with SPIDER MAN on the far left -

    I try to take a clump photo of my daylilies every year so that I can watch them grow. If you'd like to look through my albums, I'll post a link below.

    Best of luck,
    Kathy

    Here is a link that might be useful: Kathy's Garden Gallery

  • 13 years ago

    These are wonderful! Thank you for this helpful tip, too. Oh, I just noticed you posted a gallery. I shall peruse!

    Thank, this was really helpful Kathy.

  • 13 years ago

    Honestly there are many, many clump and garden shots shown. Just look the the first few pages.

  • 13 years ago

    Foliage is often not good this year, with drought and browning leaves. In choosing daylilies, you should pay attention to flower size and scape height. Many pictures give no indication of how large the flower is or how tall the scape is on which it is blooming.

  • 13 years ago

    Here's a clump of Swan Pond--a tidy plant with flowers around 5". Height is around 28-30", with scapes varying.

    Here you can see Gillian in the garden. It's not that short; the picture doesn't give clear perspective on height. Lots of leaf streak this year.

    Here's Mohawk Chief in the garden. You can see it is a taller and imposing plant.

  • 13 years ago

    Thank you Mantis, your flowers are wonderful. The last photo is really helpful in gauging how the flower look in a bed. Do the heights of the flowers vary? Also, how many blooms typically open at one time in a clump? I'd appreciate any feedback on this.

    Am I correct in thinking the daylily has a lot of green then? (as in foliage, compared to the amount of flowers?)

  • 13 years ago

    In a typical year, the leaves are gracefully lush early in the year, but look more ratty later in the summer. It depends on the rainfall and the prevalence of leaf streak. In a mature clump, one frequently has more than one flower open on a given day, and sometimes there are multiples.

    Kay (Organic Kitten) and Rita frequently post garden shots of their daylilies. Kay's garden shots would be from earlier in June, but Rita has been posting them recently.