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Best Toothy Daylilies from 2018

7 years ago

Post your best three daylilies with teeth here. You are welcome to post as many runners up as you would like. The next category will be Best UFs and Spiders.


Here are my top three:


Betty Bush - Strong pollen and good pod setter. Great rebloom!



Skater has large 8 inch blooms and reblooms well.


Men in Black was the best of my purple toothies in bud count and scape height.



I'll post my runners up later!


Debra

Comments (29)

  • 7 years ago

    Here are my runners up. They are all wonderful daylilies!

    Entwined in the Vine


    White Tooth


    Armed to the Teeth


    Razor Sharp


    Debra

  • 7 years ago

    I only have one and I used it in another category. I'll lurk and enjoy. I like Razor Sharp and Armed to the Teeth best, Debra.

  • 7 years ago

    I’m like Brad, only one and I posted it in the whites. Razor Sharp and Skater are my favorites. I will wait and see what everyone else has, I bet Nancy is having a hard time choosing from all of her toothies ; )

    Sherry

  • 7 years ago

    You can post your pics in more than one category. I've already posted White Tooth and Men in Black in other categories.

    Debra

  • 7 years ago

    Okay, Here's my one:

    Barracuda Bay


    Brad

  • 7 years ago

    Celeste, I too am not really drawn to toothy daylilies. I do like your unnamed Moldovan. I also feel the same as you about my Barracuda Bay, great bloomer but not the best color.

  • 7 years ago

    Like others, this is not a type of daylily I immediately am jumping to purchase! However, I do like viewing all the "teeth" on here and who knows, I once discarded any idea I would ever like spiders and UFs and now have added quite a few to my garden. I did not really think of Entwined in the Vine as a toothy but do see that on yours, Debra. So I do have at least one! I posted two pics of it in another category so will not repeat it again! I do have an old Herrington lily whose name evades me now but it has lots of teeth. I don't even have a photo of it. It is very similar to Celeste's Shattered Glass. And I have admired Debra's Skater, perhaps because it looks like ruffles trump teeth on that one!! And then I remember I actually liked a lot of Bob and Nancy's teeth lilies so I certainly don't want to say I dislike them!!

    Kate

  • 7 years ago

    Wow, those are some awesome pics of toothy daylilies, Debra! I like all of them but Armed to the Teeth and Skater are probably my favorites. I also like the deep rosy color and gold teeth on Love All Serve All, Nancy.

    Here are some of mine.

    Wise Whiskers


    Alloy

    Fang and Claw

    Quite the Bite X Deadliest Catch Seedling

  • 7 years ago

    I tempted fate, posted too many and lost the post so here I go again.

    Bass Gibson is one of our best toothy daylilies.



    Wolverine is one of our best growers. It bloomed like a fool last summer and set lots of seeds. It is not my favorite, however, because in our garden the color is a little muddy.



    Love All Serve All is not one of the toothiest, but it's tall and fertile and I love the rose red color. We have lots of seedlings, some crossed with Absolute Ripper, from it that will bloom next summer. I can't wait.



    I'm glad that Debra said we could post as many runners up as we wanted. It's hard to narrow down to just a few.

    Arnie Oseland is a blooming fool. It's tall with lots of buds. It's not my favorite color and I haven't gotten it to set any seed yet.


    Barracuda Bay has been languishing in the shade of a pine tree that has grown quite a bit, but we moved the daylily into a bed spot and it rewarded us by doing well. It's not my favorite color, but it occupies a sentimental place in my heart since it was the first toothy daylily we owned.

    I'd better put the rest in the next comment.

    Nancy

  • 7 years ago

    Here are more of my runners up.


    Bo Diddley looks like it is going to be a great grower. It's not my favorite color, but Bob loves it.


    Bodacious Bite has been a great grower for us. It never has a bad hair day. It also sets seeds well.


    Cosmic Sensation is not the toothiest in the garden, but it's a nice purple and quite tall too. It sets seeds too.



    Crimson Stories has done reasonably well for a southern bred daylily. It is giving us some pretty seedlings too.

    Deadliest Catch hasn't been here very long, but it likes it will do well. It has not yet gotten to registered height, but blooms well and sets seeds.



    I'd better but the rest in the next comment.


  • 7 years ago

    Feeling Thorny has done well for a southern. It reminds me a bit of Bass Gibson, but it is pinker.


    Forestlake Becky was a blooming fool last summer.


    I was so irritated at Gaudeamus because it just didn't perform well for three years. Then we moved it and it wowed us last summer.



    On Your Knees You Will Find Him has been great in our garden. It won't set seed but its pollen is good.


    Rosie Cotton's Ribbons does not have the best bud count, but it increases very well. It also reblooms reliably for us.


    It's too early to know if Sihir will be a good grower, but it does look promising. It came from Canada last spring and bloomed well for a new one.


    Something in My Teeth is taking its sweet time getting established but it definitely has some teeth going on.


    Spacecoast Lemon Whiskers is a beautiful yellow with a tall scape and large flowers.


    Wickedly Wild and Wonderful is southern bred and never achieves its registered height here. Still, it manages to hand in there year after year and bloom every year. It also is a color range that is not too common in teeth daylilies.



    I have some pretty seedlings with teeth too. I'll post the best of those later.

    Nancy

  • 7 years ago

    Feeling Thorny is a southern that has done quite well.


    Forestlake Becky bloomed its fool head off last summer.


    For three or four years Gaudeamus didn't do much of anything. Then we moved it and it wowed us last summer.


    On Your Knees You Will Find Him has been a great grower for us. It's sort of hard to find, though. It won't set seed (for me at least), but the pollen is good.


    Rosie Cotton's Ribbons does not have the best bud count, but it reliably reblooms for us and increases well.

    I'll put the rest in the next comment.


  • 7 years ago

    Sihir is too new to know how it will perform but it looks quite promising. It came from Canada last spring and bloomed quite well.


    Something in My Teeth has taken its sweet time getting established, but it does have some major teeth.



    Spacecoast Lemon Whiskers is a great daylily. It has tall scapes and large flowers and has done quite well for a southern-bred one.


    Wickedly Wild and Wonderful never gets to its registered height, but still it blooms every year. It is also rather unique in its coloring for a tooth daylily.


    I have some seedlings that have teeth. I'll post the best of those later.

    Nancy

  • 7 years ago

    Karen, I love your Quite the Bite X Deadliest Catch seedling. The color is wonderful!


    Nancy

  • 7 years ago
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    It is possible to delete duplicate postings.

    Bass Gibson is a great one, with many progeny. Glowing Quasar grows well here and looks promising.

    Wolverine is a very good grower. The color seemed a bit more saturated this year.

    The most interesting toothy I found to be Larry's Twilight Bite, even though it bloomed only in a pot. The color seems more saturated than that of many toothies.

  • 7 years ago

    Here are 5 of our best toothy seedlings.


    Sonoran Desert Rose X Crimson Stories


    Sea of Cinders X Happy Holidays to You


    Interview with a Vampire X Crimson Stories

    All of My Love to You X Randy Stephens



    Orchids for Minnie X Wolverine


  • 7 years ago

    As I stated, I'm not crazy about the toothy ones but that last seedling of Nancy's (Orchids for Minnie x Wolverine) is a WOW. That bright color with those white teeth make it very striking! That's a toothy daylily I would buy.

  • 7 years ago

    Actually, Karen’s seedling and Nancy’s seedlings are all very distinctive and those colors!! See, I could learn to like toothies!!


    Kate

  • 7 years ago

    Here my best toothy daylilies:


    Dragon Fang


    Venus Flytrap



    Swimming With Sharks: Hooks knobs tendrils and teeth. My most consistent performer in this category.



    I would already posted BASS GIBSON and MALCOLM DAVID BROOKER SR under different categories and they are wonderful.


    David

  • 7 years ago

    It's interesting that Bass Gibson has done so well for those of you that grow it. It just limps along here. I don't know if it is in a bad spot, or if varmints got to the roots last year.

    David - That clump of Swimming with Sharks is impressive.

    Celeste - I like the colors on Tangerine Tuesday and Pilgrim on Earth.

    Karen - Your seedling has a distinctive look with its color and eye!

    Nancy - Sonoran Desert Rose X Crimson Stories stands out to me, and I always like Rosie Cotton's Ribbons. All of My Love to You X Randy Stephens has a gorgeous bloom!

    Debra


  • 7 years ago

    Debra, I found other photos of Tangerine Tuesday. This daylily has different looks depending on the weather. Since it blooms into the late season, if it's hot it will look more like the first photo below. If it's cold it will look like the second photo:






  • 7 years ago
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    I did not get a picture of Shabby Chic this year. Performed well last year, though would prefer it to be a bit taller.

    I forgot Red Ragamuffin, which finally got a place in the garden this fall.

    My Thistles and Thorns would not have scared off any predators. Will see what it looks like next year; not a good year for many things.

  • 7 years ago

    Nancy, I like the color of Love All Serve All.

    Brad

  • 7 years ago

    Thanks Nancy! That cross produced 3 pink seedlings and an orange one. I am with Celeste. I love your Orchids for Minnie X Wolverine seedling. Wow, what a stunning color and beautiful form! Is it even brighter in person?

  • 7 years ago

    Thanks all for the kind words concerning the seedlings.


    Karen, to be honest, I am not sure that Orchids for Minnie X Wolverine is quite as bright as the picture shows. I got lazy last summer and used my cell phone to take most of the pictures instead of the Nikon that really does a great job with colors. My cell phone tends to make colors a little brighter than they are. My husband's cell phone makes the color duller. Here is his picture from the same day. I think the true color is somewhere between the two pictures. (And the edge looks yellow in this picture.)



    Nancy


  • 7 years ago

    Nancy, thank you for being honest! The second pic is nice too but I love the first one's color especially. I have been burned a few times relying on hybridizer's photos in impulsive purchases. Then there are times where I am pleasantly surprised that my blooms look better than the hybridizer's photos.

  • 7 years ago

    Maybe you all do this already, but I always check the shade/color of the foliage. It always helps me determine The true shade on the blooms.

    Sherry

  • 7 years ago

    Here is another shot of SWIMMING WITH SHARKS. It put on about 3 weeks of blooms like this and sent up rebloom scapes.



    David