It is HURRICANE BOB, Frillylily

Sorry, I just wanted to post some color on this winter day. I don't have any true scrupted ones

This is ACQUIRED ARCADIAN BLISS (Curt Hanson). I love the way the throat pleats and folds.....and it is a pretty color.

Judy

Wow, Judy
You are up to date on these odd ones. That is nice too! Keep posting them it helps me learn.

Little Big Ears is great in all it's variations. Here's Set the Style, a 2000 one by Salter. Nice pleats in the throat.


Susan

Set the Style is a great parent. Curt Hanson has used it a lot. I grew it for a little while, but it didn't like it here. I am about 130 miles south of Curt, but he is more temperate than I am because of being so close to Lake Erie. I have worse weather than he does. He also has AMAZING soil, having added organic material to it for over 20 years. My soil has been amended, and has good drainage, but it's not the super soil he has. Set the Style did do better than Make Believe Magic for me. I have grown other Salters, and they do fine. And, maybe if I tried Set the Style again - I might get a more thrifty division. Sometimes I think you get a division that for some reason, just does not do well.

I thought I posted yesterday. I hope I do it right this time. Susan, I do also like Set The Style. I should have some seedlings bloom from it, but I do wish I had used it more. Next year, I should make a point. Judy, what have you been getting with Little Big Ears ? I'll bet some fun things. Do give us a preview ! Here is another one of Curt's pleateds. Neutron Star.

Here's one of my seedlings from LITTLE BIG EARS. It's typical of what I'm getting with lots of weirdness going on. Click on this one to make it bigger for more detail. And the EARS....I guess I need to think up more "ears" names to describe the sepals that always stay flat out.

The Ears Have It

Light Ears Away

Ears To Go

Despereaux

These Little Ears Of Mine

Radar Ears

Tune Me In

Hear Hear

I need to step up my pollen dabbing this summer so I can use all those great names!!!!

Can you hear me now?
blpender

This is one of mine, too.....this one is BUNNY EARS!!! This is the closest I've gotten to a tet mini uf because it has crispated petals. But it's also folded in the throat so it vaguely falls into the pleated category, too. My biggest problem (besides thinking up these wacky names) is finding things to cross with these little things to keep them miniature without losing their shapes.

Judy - I really like that one! So much more interesting than the full formed chicken fat edged things. I love yellow daylilies... but this one looks like it might be a polychrome?

I just enlarged the photo and looked again.... gosh that is lovely.

I LOVE IT!
when will you have any of it for sale?


:)

I do too Frilly! Davi, what is the size of that bloom? Also, does it have a high budcount. That would look so nice in a clump! I bet you don't have a lot of mini tet spiders to work with.

My "ears" daylilies are little tiny plants. BUNNY EARS is a 4" flower on a 17" scape with 21 buds. LITTLE BIG EARS has an 18" scape and is actually a 4" flower because I had to measure it at the widest part, which is "ear to ear", but the "stuff" in the center is only about 2". There is absolutely nothing out there this small to cross them with....another reason why progress is so slow with developing this form and size. Minature daylilies are not as popular as larger flowers since they get lost in a regular daylily bed and really need a place of their own for display. I had a rockery going down a slope at my last house where I displayed all my miniatures. It was right next to some stairs and made a nice display.

And yes, I do have a web site. I don't know if we are allowed to put links to our sites here, but there is an easy way to find all hybridizer's web sites. On the top right of this page there is a link to CHARLOTTE'S DAYLILY DIARY.....just click on that link and at the top of that page click again on THE HYBRIDIZERS CORNER. Then look for my name: Judy Davisson and click on that and it will take you to my page. WARNING WARNING WARNING: Once you discover the Hybridizer's Corner, you will be HOOKED FOR LIFE!!! Charlotte's site is the very best summary of all daylily websites and she keeps it up to date with the newest updates and websites.

Judy, you are absolutely allowed to post a link. You are also welcome to put a post in
Hybridizers - Their Intros & Seedlings
and
Daylily Vendors & Gardens Info
to let people know about your work.

I have a link to Charlotte's page on the right side of this Cubit. It would not let me link directly to the hybridizers corner... I do it the same way as the other links, but it takes me to an unknown page when I try it. Same thing with trying to put a link for the main AHS page.

OK, Julie. Here's a direct link then:
http://www.picturetrail.com/da...

You'll see when you get to the page that these little daylilies aren't my main focus. I'm working mostly with big tall fragrant "in your face" flowers and my little guys were just a happy accident. I started out my hybridizing career many years ago with the thought that I would create a tiny little miniature spider to go in my rock garden. So I collected a whole lot of spidery little diploids like NUTMEG ELF and have to admit I should have stopped hybridizing right then and there because I had a seedling patch of the worst dogs you've ever seen!!! I only had one keeper out of that whole effort which I registered as RIOT ON THE KINDERGARTEN BUS. So I switched my focus to the big and tall.....but there still is a place in my heart for the little guys and I finally had a little bit of success when I tried it again with tetraploids instead of diploids. Only now I'm too old to bend down that far to hybridize these little ones!!! You wouldn't believe how small the anthers are on these little guys! They have me running for my reading glasses just to collect pollen!

I don't want this thread to get off topic, so here's another scultped daylily that is just wonderful in my garden. It's Curt's ALPHA QUADRANT. A friend sent me this one as a gift because he lived in zone 4 and he said it was struggling to live. It just EXPLODED into growth here in my zone 7. The carving on the face is very subtle. The plant is wonderful with beautiful foliage and the scapes stand tall and erect. That's one thing I really admire with Curt Hanson's program. He not only produces great flowers, but the plant under them are always so flawless.

Davi, I just visited your site. WOWZER! I really like the way you show the individual bloom and then the scape &/or clump. But most of all I LOVE your names!!!! Many are self-explanatory, but I would still love to hear the stories behind them.
I HAVE TO HAVE a few of them.

Davi said:This is one of mine, too.....this one is BUNNY EARS!!! This is the closest I've gotten to a tet mini uf because it has crispated petals. But it's also folded in the throat so it vaguely falls into the pleated category, too. My biggest problem (besides thinking up these wacky names) is finding things to cross with these little things to keep them miniature without losing their shapes.

I really like that one!

This should be it:
Bunny Ears (Davisson-J., 2008)
height 17", bloom 4", season EM, Rebloom, Evergreen, Tetraploid, 21 buds, 4 branches, UFo Crispate , Ivory with fine yellow edge above pleated lime green throat. (sdlg × sdlg)