Thank you for the kind words and warm welcome

Great seedling avatar! Welcome.

Yup, get 'em while they are young! The school and students are very lucky to have you.

From one obsessed to another!

BB

Welcome Lisa!!! Beautiful seedling!!!

Gee, I don't see being "addicted to daylilies" as a problem....

I love your garden name, welcome ! ~Jan

So, Lisa,

Are you gonna tell what the parents are of that gorgeous seedling with the teeth are?

It is SOOOO right up my alley!

Well as Juli and others know I am a transplant from the western desert to the Midwest. Our entire backyard out west was a total desert landscape and it seemed a bit easier to keep it up! Planting was scoop a bit of sand/stone and stick a piece of cacti in and it grew! So I have so much to learn but all these great forums provide so much info, I love it.

My husband and I are over the road truck drivers and we are usually gone 4 to 5 days a week with 2 to 3 days at home. We go to CA every week and during the bad weather season go the southern route right thru Bakersfield! The rest of the year we travel down I80 right thru the heart of the Midwest. Gratefully we have a wonderful nephew who lives with and he takes care of the house, the poms and the garden and lately with age creeping up on us, the 2 of us as well!

I am happy to report I have some beautiful daffys blooming and tulips as well! All the 15 daylillies that I planted are all coming up and I wil be quit excited to see them bloom in a month or two. As soon as I figure out how to post pictures on here from this new fangled IPad I got for Christmas I will post some pics! I can not express enough to all of you how much I enjoy your posts just chocked full of such great informations and I am usually always turning green with envy at all the beautiful pictures of your gardens! Thanks for sharing, now I have something to strive for in my small gardens!

Betty - glad to see you back!

Lilylady - seedling is Tooth and Nails x Pufferfish.
I have 4 seedlings from this cross and this is the best of the 2 that have bloomed.
The other that bloomed is toothy but has that overcolor that is common in the toothy line and not my favorite. see...

Have 2 more to see bloom the first time this year -fingers crossed

Betty - you now live near so many great hybridizers in Ohio. If you have not already you need to visit SW Ohio and the gardens of Tom Polston, Bob Faulkner, Dan Bachman, & Sandy/Mike Holmes to name a few!

Lisa

Lisa, Thanks for the parents. I had to look them up, I am so far behind on the toothy things. I do remember Pufferfish being introduced. Funny it is out of older parents yet Jamie made a winner. Is the color really so? It is in the database here.

I then found Tooth and Nail on the AHS database. Not a cascade as registered but the bicolor/bitone is nice. And toothy!

I'll look forward to your next two blossom pics!

lilylady - Although I have Tooth and Nails, I do not own pufferfish - I purchased these seeds.
The one time I saw it blooming in person, the teeth were fantastic but the color was not as bright - it was later in the day on a very hot day so that may have affected the color.
Most of the toothy stuff out there has Forestlake Ragamuffin in its genetic pool. Great at passing teeth but slow to grow.
3 others in the background of the toothy stuff are Startle, Enchanted April and Ruffled Strawberry Parfait.

Lisa

I have those last 3 plants you mentioned, hmmm. Might have to do more pollen dabbing with them.

What I like about your seedling is that it is thin enough to show the sepals but not too thin, and the etched band and that the sepals also have some teeth showing! Can't wait to see the next two. Who did you buy seed from, ie are there 'others' out there?

Hi Betty! Just wait til bloom season when you can visit all those great gardens in your state. You will be just drooling over them.* Warning * in case no one told you Daylilies are highly addictive! So hang on to your purse strings I bet they'll be getting a workout this summer

Lisa, a belated welcome. Congratulations on that dental work needy daylily.

Paul,
I LOVE your seedling! Inner Circle would be a great name.

It's nice to see some of my friends here. Hi everyone. :)

I'm a Floridian transplanted a couple of years ago to SC. I learned about daylilies in the Sunbelt club of Central Florida and was blessed to have several big named hybridizers and friends and mentors. I started hybridizing under the guidance of Dan Hansen at Ladybug Daylilies and introduced my first 5 daylilies through him and with the love/support of my friends on Dave's garden. I work mainly in polymerous and UF doubles tho this year I've bought several newly introduced patterns in order to make seeds to sell.

We live on 1 1/2 acres in the middle of S. Carolina. It's taken me until now to get my hybridizing beds built and planted. I'm hoping this year will be the one that sees me getting my program back under full production. I have about a dozen plants under eval. for future introduction.

Gardening here is very different than in FL. I've just finished the Master Gardener course and am excited about all I've learned about how to grow things in this neck of the woods. MG is great. The people are awesome. In addition to gardening I spend most of my time as Mom to a 10 year old with Asperger's Syndrome. I'm on the board of his school which is a small non-profit organization for special needs kids. I teach gardening there weekly and will be doing the Jr. Master Gardener's course with them. We're in the process of developing a National Display Garden at the school and the kids are learning to hybridize. They're already picking out names for their "futures" as you can well imagine.

The most surprising gardening related thing that's happened recently was having my work featured in a national Russian horticulture magazine. Francois Verhaert from Belgium contacted me for my thoughts on UF doubles for a friend who was writing an article. I'd previously met him several times in FL. His friend was an editor of this mag. and little did I know that when I sent him some info and pictures they'd use them and want a pic of me as well. I was honored to included in an article that also featured Pat Cochenour who's work I greatly admire.

Here are a couple of pics of our property and some of the seedlings under eval.

Everything looks beautiful Leslie!!!

Nice to meet you, Leslie!

Love your pot flower!

If I had all those stairs to descend to my garden, I'd be outa breath before I got there!!!

Sounds like you are devoted and have some great garden projects at the school. Are you saying that you are setting up an AHS Display Bed there?

Glad you joined us! I am rather new as well.

Hi Cindy and thanks!

Lilylady, that pic was it's first bloom ever. I wish I could name it what I said when I saw it the first time but I try not to cuss so "Holy **** " just wouldn't do.

Those steps are from the deck on the back of the house. The front door is ground level so we usually use it. I am putting in a potted hummingbird garden up on the deck as they come there already. I think the folks who had the house before us fed them there and they're coming back. Last year one actually flew into the house and then back out. It was awesome.

Oh, dear, Leslie - miscommunication...I meant your 10 yr old in the pot!

So....
What will be in your hummingbird gardens? First ones I see here (north of Boston) usually come when the quince bush is in bloom. It is now, so I should start looking. Next they go to the bleeding hearts.
Later in the season some come to the trumpet vine.

Leslie, your garden is looking great and your seedlings are all lovely!