Since that night last week when the temps dropped down into the 40's, my daylilies have shrunk in size, and even tho the daytime temps are in the high 70's, many of the lily's are not opening correctly. The weather this summer has been a test of extremes. Our TV weatherman says we should be in the 80's. Apparently, a cold front has been hovering over the New England coastline. Rain tonight, and intermittent showers tomorrow. Looks like I will be taking pix again in the rain tomorrow. Here's an example of bloom that didn't open correctly. "Count Your Assets" (Nicole). A huge flower that I tried mightily to coerce to open, until one of the petal's broke. It's a FFO that had never bloomed before, added to my garden last September. Of course, I wanted to see what it looked like. It's the old saying, 'curiosity killed the cat'!
COUNT YOUR ASSETS
Only a handful of blooms to post today.
REAL WIND
STOP AND STARE - New to the garden this year. Has been blooming for several weeks. Took awhile to find its true stripes. Lovely bloom.
RED VELVET ELVIS - 2nd bloom, showing a lot more loopy edge and some teeth on that edge.
STROBELIGHT SEDUCTION - 2nd and 3rd flower
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BARBARA MANDRELL - Blooming for a month now. Has increased from 3 fans to 6 fans in 3 months since it was planted in May. Phenominal plant, beautiful bloom.
Michele, once again you were right. The incredible 'Dragonfly Dawn' that you sent to me in May, has sent up another scape! And I thought it was finished blooming for this year. Nice surprise.
Also, spent 45 minutes on the phone yesterday with hybridizer Pete Harry. Such a nice, nice man. He was working in his gardens when I called.
I straightened out an incorrect order that he sent to me last year, and I didn't find out until the plants bloomed last week. 2 plants were incorrect.
He is replacing both plants with new plants, and he let me pick out a bonus plant of my choose. He suggested a bonus, and I took him up on it on a new intro of his called, 'Your Place, Or Mine' - a daylily with really phenomenal genetics, and tends to develop teeth even though he did not breed for that. He told me that plants that have really 'large edges' can and may develop teeth just by chance. I learned so much from our chat on the phone, I could have talked to him for hours. I was flying when I got off the phone with him.
YOUR PLACE OR MINE - TET (Kiss My Grits X Crazy Ivan) X (Happy Happy X Singing With Angels)
http://www.peteharrydaylilies....
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