Todaylily

The Magnolia didn't get frosted this year, so it put on its show for almost a week before rain started the blossom drop. This tree is over 50 years old.
If I could find a daylily that looked like this, I'd pay a hundred bucks for it. Pink Stripes is the closest I know.
Anybody seen this variegation pattern in a daylily before? It's split at just about the fold (midpoint). Do I have something special?
Another Amaryllis I love; Name unknown.

Stony Brook Nurseries used Cannas and other tropicals plus hostas to create their New Orleans feel. They placed second to Styers in the mega displays.
The only lilies around were these- I really like the look of this cultivar, whatever it is.

The individual entries had some things I'd never seen, like this Saintpaulia "Aly's Key Lime Pie."
Tradescantia spathacea 'tricolor' is on my "look for" list.

This bloom is imperfect, but it was reblooming October 31, and then the next evening a deer ate the rest of about a dozen rebloom buds. It's Mikado,a 1929 Stout I think is way underappreciated .
My musa basjoo bundled up for the winter. 2 foot diameter cage filled with dried leaves, covered to keep the leaves dry.
H. Drop Cloth is evergreen, so it will be mulched NOT to keep it from freezing, but to keep it from trying to regrow in every midwinter thaw, which can exaust it's reserves and leave a pile of mush in the spring. Below is my Malachite Prism, mulched with Christmas tree branches. I also mulch first-year plants to minimize frost heaving.

Labels: Mulch daylilies Hanson Mikado daylily

These 4 proliferations all came from one clump of Jim Murphy's daylily 'Rocket Science' (2004). It actually put out 5 prolifs on 5 scapes, but I didn't discover them until too late for one. These have been in water for a couple of weeks, and now I've potted them up and will try to keep them alive over the winter on my windowsill. Another daylily with a proliferation on alomost every scape for me is Margo Reed's 'Origin Stories' so there must be something in the water at Margo & Jim's nursery (Piedmont Perennials).

Labels: Maqrgo Reed Jim Murphy proliferations daylilies

This is Betty Harwood's (1999) 'Autumn Oddity; this photo is from GSDG president Dick Dardas in his garden, but it was also blooming in Cynthia & Kevin Ruddy's garden at Answered Prayers Daylily Farm in Howell, NJ last weekend when they hosted the Garden State Daylily Growers club auction. Our club has among its members probably the most Harwood cultivars outside Betty's own garden, now located at her daughter Janet's place in Pawling, NY. In the near future I will post a list of sources for pre-2005 registrations on the GSDG website www.gsdaylily.org under the LINKS section.
Apps' Red Hot Returns has just started reblooming for me in Philadelphia in the past week, but even more impressive than the bloom is the great foliage condition in a bed with no irrigation and next to no rain for the last month. It is part of Centerton Nursery's "Happily Ever Appster" series which can be found at the better independent nurseries.
Sunset Returns is another "Appster"
with good diamond dusting. It doesn't photograph well, but it shows up like little sand grains on this pic.

September 13: Rosy Returns, Grape Magic, Little Wine Cup, Bridgeton Kodak Moment, Siloam Plum Tree, Big Time Happy, 2 of Nature Girl and one sunset Returns. The only difference I can see between the last 2 is that Nature Girl tends to have a little gap between petals & sepals.

September 14: Little Wine Cup, the last of Origin Stories and Point of View, 4 of Siloam Plum Tree and Bridgeton Kodak Moment.
9/15: Little Wine Cup, last of Fox Ears, Siloam Plum Tree, Nature Girl, Happy Returns, Bridgeton Kodak Moment and Scentual Sundance.
9/16 at Ruddys- B etty Harwood's Sweet Treat (2000). Also blooming was her Autumn Oddity and Salter's Moon Over Monteray, plus Stout's Autumn Minaret (1951) and Jablonski's August Queen (1979).

Labels: daylily daylilies NJ PA, Harwood, Ruddy