Cheryl, those are lovely! Do you pollinate by hand or does mother nature do the job? I would like to keep some seeds from my daylilies and try it.

Cheers,
Michelle

I cross pollinated a red with other tets that rebloom well for me in the hopes of getting a good repeating red. Don't know if I've achieved that, but I got some colorful daylilies.

Here's another one from the same cross:

Here's a self pollinated seedling from Siloam Shocker - it's very similar to it's parent:

Those are easily as pretty as what I see in the catalogs! Wow!! I wish I lived close enough to raid your garden. Probably kidding, but darn it would be tempting with luscious daylilies like those. :-))))

Cheers,
Michelle

When you have been able to get so far out there on the red spectrum - the only thing that could be an improvement on that daylily is to have more of them.

Just beautiful.

digitSteve

That red daylilly is gorgeous, but the burnt orange one with the red eye is stunning too!

I don't have any red ones yet. So far this year I have planted 'Happy Returns', 'Black-Eyed Stella', 'Fooled Me' and a cheapo bag of three from Walmart labeled 'Little Women'. The picture looked peach with a red eye, but they don't look like they are going to bloom for me this year. If they turn out to be pink, I'm ripping them out and looking for something more orange or red like yours.

So far this year I've ripped out a red bee balm that bloomed lavendar, and a phlox 'Orange Perfection' that bloomed a bright neon pink. The phlox I potted up and will try to pawn off on some unsuspecting neighbor, but the bee balm went into the garbage can. It's not that I have a thing against pinks and blues/pale purples, but my house is kind of a cross between a red and a terra cotta color, and the cool colored blooms just don't go well with it. Burgandy, maroon, or even a deep purple seem to work okay though and break up all of the orange and yellow colored flowers I've already got. What good rebloomers come in those colors?

My daylily seedlings are really plain compared to the fantastic big ruffled ones often pictured in the daylily forum, but it was a fun experiment. Though I am pleased with the 5 and 6 way branching on some of the one year plants - they'll make good garden plants.

Daylilies are very good at doing warm colors, burgundies, rusty reds and such. There's a great deep, almost black big one called Bela Lugosi. It's darker than the pic:

There's a nice little deep red that repeats really well called Pardon Me. I think it's darker than the pic:

Good grief, people on the DL forum spend alot of $$ on single plants!

I do think your DL's are just as nice. All they are lacking is a marketing angle and a set of glossy glam photos. :-)

Cheers,
Michelle