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Post by paulf on Jul 1, 2021 15:22:26 GMT -5
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jul 1, 2021 16:09:32 GMT -5
Beautiful!!!!
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Post by september on Jul 1, 2021 22:17:28 GMT -5
paulf , those are gorgeous! I have given up on my perennial flower garden, I had 5 or 6 kinds of day lilies in it but I finally gave up the battle with grass overrunning it. I had to have deer netting on shepherd's hooks around it, because the lilies were the first things they went for. I was going to dig up some of the lilies to give my son's girlfriend, but the deer got to them first this year and now the remnants are lost in the grass.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 3, 2021 7:50:59 GMT -5
I love daylilies and I have an entire daylily bed. 2 of mine opened yesterday. I really like the spider type. Last year I took pics as they opened and made a collage. I discovered a local home where the woman grows and sells daylilies. They are all named varieties and the prices are really reasonable. I bought several last year. She took an ordinary backyard and turned it into a HUGE daylily garden with beds having different themes. You can look at her flowers on the attached link. I sometimes go there in an evening just to look around. It is so beautiful. Last year I saw one that I really loved called Creature of the Night that was not for sale but she told me to come back in the Fall and she would divide it for me. She is so nice. www.woodcrestdaylilies.com/20210702_111153 by Brownrexx, on Flickr 20210702_111124 by Brownrexx, on Flickr 20210702_111124 by Brownrexx, on Flickr Daylilies 2020 by Brownrexx, on Flickr Daylilies 2 - 2020 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 3, 2021 13:35:41 GMT -5
Wow, brownrexx, that woman is growing a huge selection of daylilies! And it looks like you have quite a selection of beauties yourself. paulf, you have some very nice ones, too! They don't seem to mind your drought at all. Mine are not blooming at the moment. The main daylily season starts in May here, and those blooms are long gone. Hopefully this rain will spur the reblooming varieties to put up some scapes soon. But I only have a few daylilies, not beds of them like you guys.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 3, 2021 15:49:27 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, daylilies bloom in July here so they are just getting started. I already had a few daylilies before I discovered Woodcrest Daylilies but I had never seen anything like it. I just had to have some of those fancy looking ones that I have never seen for sale in any greenhouse. She only charges about $12 per plant for big bare rooted ones that she digs for me and I take them right home and plant them. She is only about 8 miles from my house. She sells some in pots for about $15 ea. It was quite irresistible for me and I wanted everything I saw but my flower bed is full now and I have no room for new ones although I thought that maybe I would just go over to her place in a few days and see what is new. I know I will end up buying something but I can always tuck it in somewhere. She has open house at her place on Sundays and people come just to wander around and take pictures.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 5, 2021 10:59:59 GMT -5
brownrexx, I would love to have a place like that here! It would be so nice to walk through and enjoy the daylilies. And yeah, I wouldn't be able to resist buying some, either.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 11:50:22 GMT -5
Lovely flowers. So many colors and combinations.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 7, 2021 13:23:32 GMT -5
I got home from horseback riding this afternoon and discovered one of my favorite lilies had started blooming. It is called Wild Horses. Wild Horses by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by paquebot on Jul 7, 2021 18:46:37 GMT -5
Tried to get a definite number of how many my son has. Closest he could say was about 90. A number of them are his own crosses. I think that every one of them is beautiful. I've just got one, a solid yellow.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 11, 2021 13:47:40 GMT -5
Woodcrest Daylilies has garden tours/open house on Sundays in July and since today is a Sunday and it's July I got hubby and headed over there. He looked for a bit and then sat on a bench in the shade while I wandered among all of the flowering daylilies. His attention span for looking at all of those flower beds is limited but he was a good sport and didn't rush me. I picked up a new red one called Baltimore Oriole and I will plant that this afternoon in the end of the daylily bed where everything else is light colored. Baltimore Oriole by Brownrexx, on Flickr Of course there were more that I liked but I reined myself in and only ordered 2 of them. She did not have these potted for sale but she takes orders for when flowering is done and she digs and divides the plants. I will just buy them as clumps at the bargain price of $12 each. They would probably be $29.99 at any greenhouse. It was so nice to wander around all of the beautiful flowers. I think that she has 175 named varieties. Here is what I ordered for Fall. The colors are a bit similar but they are different heights and Chili Spice will live in the daylily bed behind the house and the Carnival in Mexico which is a taller one will live in a big bed right in front of the house where it will really be noticeable because it will be the only daylily in that bed Chili Spice by Brownrexx, on Flickr Carnival in Mexico by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 14, 2021 10:28:00 GMT -5
They are all very pretty. I am partial to the saturated red of the Baltimore Oriole, though. That is a very nice potted plant for $15!
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 14, 2021 10:53:04 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL , Carnival in Mexico's picture does not completely do it justice because of the bright sun and using a phone camera but the pale color is really a really nice peach color which is one color that I don't already have. I need a single specimen plant for the formal garden in the front of the house. Creature of the night is in the bed on one side of the front sidewalk and in the Fall Carnival in Mexico will live in the middle of the bed on the other side. I have also discovered that the lilies come in different heights. Both of the ones for the front gardens are the tall type with large flowers so they are very showy. Chili spice is a shorter plant and will live in the daylily bed behind the house. paulf, I really like the deep orange color of your first photo. I have some orange ones and some red ones but none are that deep orange color. Very pretty!
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