Gay Gardeners Forum

[Jayden]

On this thread I'd like to post photos of some of my daylily seedlings; would welcome your comments!

[MurderHeWrote]

Such nice daylilies. Wish I could grow them.

[Lennoxbear]

These are beautiful. We have a whole row of daylilies across the front of our property that were quite bountiful this year. Don't think I got any pics. Of course, now they're getting past blooming and it's a not so lovely row of stalks. Oh well.

[brandon]

Cool. I wish I had the time and energy to grow a bunch of daylily seedlings. I have friends with acres of daylilies (and weeds). I don't see how they can maintain their plantings as well as they do. If it weren't for the weeds, I'd try to breed the world's next great daylily.

[Jayden]

Thanks, guys. Stay tuned, more are coming...

[Jayden]

brandon, lots of daylily growers and hybridizers grow their plants so close together there is no room for weeds, and they'd be shaded out as well. Mulch helps. Some use chemical weed control, but I don't like to mess with that.

[growin]

Nice pics and flowers! Now you just need to come up with some creative cultivar names. Thanks for posting them.

[brandon]

Jayden,

How many daylily plants do you currently have? Looks like you probably have a good variety, even just based on the ones you've posted so far.

As for the weeds being shaded out, that doesn't really work. I'm sure it helps compared to having lots of exposed dirt, but I'm constantly finding weeds in my daylily clumps.

Like you, I haven't had much experience with using chemicals over the top of my plants. Glyphosate and I are great friends, but, as you know, that doesn't help me inside the beds.

[Jayden]

Thank you for your posts, Lennoxbear, brandon, growin and MurderHeWrote. I appreciate your viewing these images, and am happy to hear your feedback on them.

Lennoxbear, the daylily show is just about over here as well, and the foliage is looking pretty sad. Even worse, some daylilies seem to go dormant right after blooming. Re-bloom is very scarce here in NJ. One exception is Terri Jones FIRST PRIME, which is actually a bud-builder, keeps forming new buds even as I begin harvesting seed pods from the same scape.

Brandon, there are several dozen potential parent plants, and maybe 300 or so seedlings. I have to transplant another 200 or so seedlings from this year's crop. And then there are about 30 seedpods ripening for next year's seed-starting.

This is a lot to handle, but I love it. Other daylily hybridizers have farms, and tens of thousands of seedlings! I have to work within my limited sunny space.

I'm a bit anal, so am always weedling, and even pulling off yellowed foliage. I like to be outdoors, but need to be doing something, can't relax just lying in the sun.

More images coming...

[Jayden]

Here are the promised images...

[Jayden]

A few more seedlings from this summer...

It's August, and the main show is over, although there are more photos to post if you're interested.

[brandon]

Cool streaked flower. I haven't seen one exactly like that before. Hope it's offsprings work out well.

I like the DaringDilemmaXEdBrownDoubleEdge as well.

[brandon]

P.S.

I'm like you Jayden, I can't stand messy beds. Even a little dead foliage has to go or it bothers me. Many growers seem to get used to their beds looking pretty messy. It distracts too much from the beauty of the flowers to me.

Then there's the procrastination side of me that never really feels like weeding TODAY. So, I end up worrying more about it than actually solving the problem. I guess my flowerbeds are still better than many people's, but it wouldn't hurt if I had another cute young assistant - for weeding, what were you thinking (-:

[Jayden]

Thanks, Brandon, there are some nice fat seed pods holding on, hope to harvest them soon.

And hey, you KNOW what I'm thinking... I am a very visual person, and have a clear image of exactly what I think you mean...

[kipouros]

Splooge! Those are beautiful!

I can sympathize with you on the weeding, especially since I have a garden full of lesser bindweed, amaranth (easy to pull but so many seeds...and it's also a delicious green so I'm always tempted to leave some) and some sort of grass with thick, white roots that just go on and on but are also quite brittle. You weed and just know it's so temporary!