Brad: You have some interesting seedling crosses. Flutterbye looks good in multi bloom photo. Sometimes I see on multi blooms the blooms hang up on each other. Liberty Banner has a rich dark tone. Nice photos.

Julia

Brad you got the same storm that came through Memphis Sunday night. Lots of trees down and lots of power outages there still. Thankfully as it moved southeast into Mississippi it went just north of me. I am tired of these destructive summer storms.

I like your North Wind Dancer seedling and isn’t it good when you get what you hope for in the results. I always like Flutterbye when you post it-so pretty and a good name!

Wow! Some parts of Alabama got those fierce storms, but we fortunately didn't. Baseball sized hail destroys everything.

Well that was well done of you. North Wind Dancer is a lovely one but left here because of the extreme lean. Your seedling is lovely.And Flutterbye looks great!

I often give a plant a chance for several years before it leaves because they can surprise you and "straighten up and behave", can't they>

kay"

My favorite of these is your Chance Encounter seedling. I like the color, the watermark and the ruffling on it. Flutterbye is a pretty one. I grew it for many years and liked everything about it except the short height.

Debra

Brad: 70 mph winds are nerve racking for sure. Glad you kept your power though. Interesting about your Osage Orange. The first time I ever saw them was here in Oklahoma (not Kentucky where I was raised) and we have a large Osage Indian population, so I just assumed they were named after the Oklahoma tribe here. They were one of the preferred plants to use to reclaim the soil and stop wind erosion after the Great Dust Bowl here in the 30's. What do you all do with the fruit?...........As for daylilies I'm so glad you will keep Paige's Pinata. I think about you every time I hear about it or Smokey Mountain Autumn......Flutterbye is a winner in your garden, and both your seedlings are very pretty. I prefer the more rounded form of the two, but that's just my preference in general. Certainly strong scapes on UFs are a worthy goal..............Maryl

Maryl, the unofficial largest Osage in the east is in Harrodsburg Ky, 20 minutes or so south of me. It is unofficial because one section of trunk split and grows sideways instead of up. As far as the fruit, it is across the creek [still our land] but it is wild so we just let them sit. When the kids were young, they played with them. And threw them.

Brad

It sounds like your North Wind Dancer is a keeper! Like Kay, it left my garden last season because of the leaning scapes. I like your Chance Encounter seedling too.

I have no idea what an Osage Orange tree is living in the northern midwest…..got a picture?….I would like to see one.

Sherry

I'm glad you didn't get the hail, especially baseball sized hail. That would decimate everything, not just the daylilies. Seventy mile an hour winds are no joke either.

I applaud your efforts to get a North Wind Dancer type that doesn't lean. Your seedling is quite pretty. I also like your Flutterbye clump.

Nancy

Will the cracking of the tree give you more sunlight for daylilies? Neighbors don't always enjoy our passion for daylilies. Mine tore out a part of my fence when mowing, leaving a gaping hole, and didn't bother to tell me. Fortunately, I saw it before the deer did. I always trim on the other side to avoid this, but he mowed before I did.

Brad: That's neat about Kentucky's Osage Orange record. They have quite a history to them. For instance nothing alive today favors it's fruit (although it's plentiful enough). They say goats/cows won't even eat it unless desperate. Some have speculated that the plant developed its fruit to please some long ago ancestor that would eat it and distribute the seeds. An animal now extinct...........anyway, as you say it's good for kids to toss around.......Maryl

Mantis: it doesn't effect daylily shade. In general, they keep the sun off the house for a couple of hours after sunrise, which is nice.

Sherry, here's several Osage tree pics:

To see height

To see how they can sprawl and the bark and roots have an orange tint.

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