Terry - I sincerely hope that you will post a photo of your Heritage Garden when it is completed. I love your idea!!!

We have a member in our club that already has a huge collection of heritage dls. He has also been in Country Gardens.

I think that is great to preserve the history of daylilies.
I have a collection as well. My grandfather started collecting daylilies in the 1940's. Before 1980 he had over 600 different DL's in his garden. My dad had 410 registered DL's pre 1980. Our problem is that in relocating them several times over the years we have lost track of the names of many. I want to put the named plants and some I am adding into a heritage bed. I am also collecting species DL's for the bed. I want to have at least 1 cultivar for each decade since the first registered in 1892. I need plants for the two decades 1900-1919. I have some for all other decades to 1980.
Terry

Some older favorites.......

HOWDY (also known as Magic Dawn)


BEST OF FRIENDS


BUTTERPAT a cute small bloom that is nice in a clump


PASTEL CLASSIC

Nice ones, Cindy. I LOVE green throats.

Woman at the Well


Royal Flycatcher


Optical Art

Cindy - Every time I see Best of Friends.... I like it more and more!

How would one ever pick from all of these? Even if you narrow it down by ev, sev, or dor that you could actually grow with success in your garden? There are just too many to pick from!!!!

kidfishing said: I found Apricot 1892 Yeld and the first registered daylily. I also bought Theron 1934 AB Stout and the first red daylily. While these may not be plants many people want, my bed will include daylilies registered before 1980.
Terry

I love the picture of Theron I saw recently. It's a great-looking flower. I think having a 'Heritage' bed is a great idea, personally.

What is the first red daylily? Did it have a simple name like "Red1"?

The first red daylily is Theron.

Hemlady said:Some older favorites.......
HOWDY (also known as Magic Dawn)

Every time I see Howdy, I think how much it looks like my little NOID:




I have to imagine they are closely related.

Ohhhh, oops! I was confused by this:

kidfishing said: I also bought Theron 1934 AB Stout and the first red daylily.

I thought the "and" meant you were talking about two different cultivars.

Oops, that is confusing!

I didn't post that at least!

Terry did that! (Daddy)

See! Dad needs his own user name so we can tell your posts apart!

How about list some of your BRIGHTEST oldies? I love Mary's Gold and wish I had more! You can notice it when you pull into the drive.

The first one to come to mind when I think of brightest is Buttered Popcorn.

I have both Mary's Gold and Buttered Popcorn. They both create quite an impression at first glance.

Yellow Ducky is also a bright one. It is at the front corner of my house so I see it coming home from work every day and it just makes me smile.

I have a daylily that looks a lot like that one Vickie and it is called Ruffled Ballet. It is a gorgeous bright yellow too.

Vickie - You have some really PREMIUM older daylilies. Some of them are very hard to find now. How can hybridizers improve upon some of those? I don't think they can. And then I read that many are rust resistant. It is disappointing that many of the older cultivars are becoming extinct. Hold on to those, as I am sure they will be heirloom daylilies some day and be much sought after once again. I think you have an excellent collection in your yard!

Thanks, Becky. I never looked at it like that. I was planning on getting rid of some, but I will have to rethink that!

Another older one that blooms later, which I really like is So Lovely. I never can seem to get a real good pic of it.