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Beautiful! Texas Carnival Dance is really pretty and you all know how I like Geometric Wizard. Mareilles Watercolor has such delicate coloration. I love the clematis photo too.
Nancy
Beautiful daylilies, Kay! Fernstone looks really good, mine has scapes that will probably bloom next week. I am seeing several scapes now, and Martin Blondeel should bloom in the next few days. At least if these rains don't knock off all the buds. Samurai Silk is a wonderful color, and I love Geometric Wizard. I almost had it at our daylily club's Dirty Santa game, but it got taken away from me.
So many lovelies showing out here. Geometric Wizard looks great-mine is full of buds now. I do like all the bright happy colors in the garden scene with the clematis. We are getting so much rain now it is really helping things along -including grass and weeds!!
Nice iris. The blue and white plicata may be Stepping OUt. I also like the faux Apricot Frosty.
My iris are almost finished. My only complaint about iris. I get way more complements on my iris than my daylilies, but I like to see results that last longer for all the weeding they need. Still, I can't seem to let them go, they are beautiful while they are here.
It looks like spring sickness. Check out the description in the dictionary of the American Daylily Society. (daylilies.org/daylily-dictionary/spring-sickness) It doesn't kill the plant and the affected fans will eventually grow out of it. It's not gall midge as that insect only affects the buds.
Did your use any weed / grass killer that may splattered or blew on it?
I have some every year that do this. They don't like the warm/cold of spring and get "spring sickness" as Nancy above described. Not a problem.
Nice! I like Dragonfly Tatoo the best. The rose is beautiful too.
Nancy
Your photo of Colorado Moon Fire shows exactly the color I remember getting. It was always very floriferous for me, and a good rebloomer. My mowers mowed it down so many times of the past two years that it died here.
Dragonfly Tatoo is a pretty one! They all look so good to me. Dumortieri has been blooming 2 or 3 weeks now and about finished, but the others are starting to scape so it won't be too long. My iris were early this year so looks like the daylilies will be too.
Beautiful! Colorado Moonstone is lovely. I also love the irises and the the roses.
Nancy
Kay, so pretty to see your blooms. The landscape pic looks like you wil have a bumper crop of daylily blooms again this year.
Thank you Julia. Yes, there are copious bloom scapes on the plants and the "shaw" should begin shortly.
kay
Nice! I like the contrast between the lime green and the pink hearts.
Nancy
You give me hope Sherry...................Maryl
Love those epimedium.
Well, I have answered my own question, via the internet, of course. The word "fulvous" is an adjective that describes a color, although just what color depends on whom you ask. In the daylily world, it does bear a connection to H. Fulva, which gets its name from its color.
Fulvous usually means reddish yellow or tawny. To me, it's that overlay of orangish coloration on a background of yellow. To me, it means the orange is not a very saturated color. Fulvous Brush Man and Begin with a Bang are good examples of it.
Nancy
Beautiful! I have caught the iris bug and have bought several last year. They have just started blooming here. I'll try to post some photos as they bloom.
Nancy
I like that NOID too. Reminds me of a fuller form of a Dutch Iris.........Maryl
Brad, you summarize my experience with irises also. Very attractive, but a lot of work for a short blooming time. Add to your notes the fact that many, if not most, require division every three years or so. And they are disease prone.
I'm glad you're fine. Poor kitty, though. Those straight-line winds can be just as destructive as a tornado. I'm glad you didn't get the worst of it.
Nancy
I Had been worried when I saw the repeated storms that just hit and hit. I am so glad you stone cat was the worst victim...Hopefully you can find and fix his ear. And I also hope you don't have any more of that bad excitement. I can commiserate about the lack of rain an summer has well begun a few too cool mornings aside.
kay
Nice! It's great that your season starts so much earlier than ours. Then we get to look at all your beautiful flowers as we wait for ours. Keep those photos coming.
Nancy
Thank you, Sherry and Maryl. Maryl, it occasionally does rebloom but not a lot. It does usually put up about 15 sscapes though so it is a good bloomer.
kay
Gorgeous Kay. I always look forward to the start of your bloom season. Hope your doing okay and getting some relaxation and truly enjoy your garden.
Julia
Hooray for the start of your daylily season! The iris an cactus flowers are so pretty!
Debra
The blooms are starting! i enjoyed the cactus flowers. Relatives in Arizona send photos occasionally of their saguaro blooming.
Sherry
Scapes! That exciting! I can't wait to see your photos.
Those mowers better get with the program! What a pain to have to worry about that. I mowed off a couple seedlings this spring too, but they look fine now.
Your iris are beautiful! Some of our early ones have started blooming including one with the ugliest color I have ever seen on an iris. This is supposed to be Gai Luron, on old historic variety. It doesn't look like the pictures I have seen online. It will be dug up and thrown away.
Nancy
I agree the iris are so pretty! After a slow start my iris have really put on a show this year. I have lots of scapes up but Kay will have blooms soon. It won’tbe long!!
Sherry: I wanted Batik so much that I went to the Iris sale one fall and asked the experts if Iris could be grown in a pot. The Iris reps there said NO! Bearded Iris need space over the long haul. One lone voice disagreed. Since I really really wanted Batik I chose to ignore sound advice from the other 99% and listened to her. Fast forward 1 year and the upshot was.........Iris indeed do NOT take to pot culture. Goodbye Batik..........Maryl
Maryl, I would imagine that Holly would be rust free especially in the spring. Her climate is much the same as ours and it did get cold enough to kill rust here last winter.
Nancy
Unless she uses greenhouse culture. I wish people who have sales sites up north would put "rust free" in their intro page so I don't have to bother them in order to ask. Just because you are north doesn't mean the daylilies you sell are field grown (eg: Northern Lights, CT daylilies, etc.). But then I really don't want rust ever again, so I am of the "belt and suspenders" philosophy. I almost always discuss the rust issue with whomever I order from if it's my first time. Every once in a blue moon I'll take a slight risk, but usually a nursery has to be rust free in order for me to feel secure.........Maryl
I don't grow many super dark ones.
Here are a few of the darkest I grow. There are blacker ones on the market, but I don't have any experience with them. Afternoon shade might be a good idea, but the ones I post are all growing in full sun and seem pretty sunfast in my west central Indiana garden.
Hey Soul Sister is the darkest we grow, but it has two faces. Sometimes it has a grayed smoky look with a dark eye. I'm sure this is weather related, but it is not fading.
Edward Abbey is a deep purple with a wonderful watermark. It is also a vigorous grower.
Ebony Jewel is an older one and not one of the blackest. It is a reliable grower.
Serena Dark Horse is a deep red toward black. It is very vigorous and reliable.
The last two are our intros. They are both wonderful growers with a flower that is pretty sunfast.
Elderberry Wine maybe not as dark as you are wanting.
Witch King of Angmar is a little darker.
Some other notable near black ones are Africa (reputed to be one of the blackest), Ashwood Dark Side, Back in Black, Black Fury, Black Panther, Caribbean Frank League. I haven't grown any of these so I don't know how they perform or hold up in the sun.
I hope that helps.
Nancy
Very nice! Thanks for posting those photos. and especially since they keep their color in full sun.
Seedling
We have scapes on both H. minor and dumortieri. Some of the scapes on minor got frosted but I think some are ok.
Anticipation is a feeling you can't imitate!
I spotted scapes on Dumortieri a couple days ago, and look like it will bloom any day now. This is about its normal bloom time, and it has bloomed earlier. Still, I am surprised it bloomed at all. Last year my neigbor offered me a scoop of soil to fill in some holes I have in the yard. I pointed to an empty spot in my flower bed. I knew the soil landed on some of my seedlings, but no big deal. Apparently Dumortieri got a good bit of it, and still managed to plow through at least 8" of soil to bloom. Those species daylilies are survivors.
Great clump shot of Geometric Wizard. Ours has scapes in their early stages. I wish I could grow Bull Frog Kisses, but it didn't like our climate. I also like Fireworks Parade.
Nancy
What a pretty group of early bloomers. I like the markings on Fireworks Parade and
your shot of Geometric Wizard is great........Maryl
Thank you all for looking and commenting. Geometric Wizard is a very good plant. It blooms beautifully and usually reblooms very well here. I saw Nancy post it and loved it and went on a hunt for it and I am very glad I did.
Firecracker Parade was a gift from Debra who said it was not doing there and she was kind enough to let me try it here. It is a very nice bloom and I really like it.
Kate, you know I have always liked PInk Gingham It was one of the first plants I got and it usually does okay.
The plants are beginning to open and decorate the yard nicely and I hope you like seeing them since they are pretty early although a couple weeks late here.
And, by the way, the greenery behind the Geometric wizard is Oregano since my herb garden is jut to the back of GW...you might see thyme or basil as well.
kay