Better late than never, more from 2012

celeste/NH

11 years ago

For those of you who liked my previous post of photos, here are some more from last summer.

This is my first attempt at posting pics with the new GW format so hopefully this all works out.

Celeste

SPIRIT OF THE DOVE
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PINK BRAID
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FREEDOM'S TRIUMPH
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HEAVENLY ORANGE BLAZE
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LAVENDER HEARTTHROB
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MEXICAN ART
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ICE CARNIVAL
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MEMORIALIZE
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PERSIAN RUBY (in foreground)
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DRESS BLUES
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DESERT ICICLE
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LUCIFER'S FIRE
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SONG OF PROMISE
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BOMBAY SILK
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GLORY TO HIS NAME
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WONDER OF IT ALL

CAT DANCER

LIBERTY BANNER

SPACECOAST DREAMCATCHER

HOT TOWN

AVIS JEAN

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marricgardens
11 years ago
I think I can narrow down my favorites to the Spirit of the Dove, and Avis Jean. SOTD is a gorgeous color, I love the lavender with the huge green throat. Is that the real color or is it more on the purple side? I love the midribs on AJ. Purples are usually my favorites but this pink one is a winner for me. I have Lavender Heartthrob, new last fall, and can hardly wait for it to flower! Thanks so much for posting.
jean_ar
11 years ago
OH GEE, Celeste,These are all so beautiful.Course my very favorite is WONDER OF IT ALL. but, love tha PINK BRAID, and FREEDOM'S TRIUMPH,. so pretty. and Love that MEXICAN ART., and LUCIFER'S FIRE. and HOT TOWN is a beauty, too. all are so pretty, and Thank you for posting them for us all to injoy.I will be so happy when the daylilies starts blooming again.and other flowers, too.

jean
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Thank you everyone. All things considered I feel pretty good for a week post op and I'm behaving quite well. doing only what I'm supposed to do. Drippy, those chipmunks are not funny and they sure aren't "chip and dale" either. Never mind the garden bed destruction that they create, the holes that they dig can be dangerous if you get your shoe or foot caught in one of them and go down. A year ago I did just that and tore ligaments in my ankle. The little boy that used to live next door got his foot in one when he was 4 and broke his leg. Now if that isn't enough insult here's more to add insult to injury. An article in the newspaper a few weeks ago said that chipmunks are a major carrier of deer tick now, more so than even deer and that could be the cause of a massive increase in the number of Lyme Disease cases being reported. Not that i needed an incentive to do everything I can to get rid of them, but that sure added a whole new layer to doing it. Then a friend called me last week the day before I went to the hospital to warn me that she was working in the gardens a month ago and she unknowingly disturbed a chipmunk that jumped on her arm and ran off. She didn't notice that she had a tick on her arm till the next day because it had attached right on top of a birthmark. 2 weeks later, bingo she has the classic bulls eye rash on her arm and has lyme disease. Chipmunks are not very smart. They can't swim, but will be more than happy to dive into water to get sunflower seeds and drown in the process and that's fine with me, right along with eating my datura as well. e-mail me if you want some info on chipmunks that like to dive for sunflower seeds. Bonny, the livingston daisy was WS by a friend of mine. There are 3 of us that share the WS for 3 gardens. We cane up with the idea to share it all after a couple of years of all of us sowing the same seeds then coming to my spring plant swap and all having the same extra seedlings. Didn't make sense so we split it up now. We end up with the same number of containers, more of each kind sowed, but the total variety is split between the homes and we end up with an even bigger variety of plants for the beds. Vera the color of that viola is beautiful. If you have any seeds for trade in the fall, I'd love some and will send you some of mine. PV, sow those seeds for next year. No matter how many of them you have, sow all of them cause they are a funny seed to germinate. My experience with them has been strange to say the least. My first seeds where from valueseeds.com. got 3 packets, 30 seeds in each packet and sowed them in early March. just sprinkled on the top of the soil cause they are small and tannish in color. Out of those 70 seeds we got 6 seedlings. Not a very happy camper that there, but I collected every single one of the seeds I could get my hands on from the plants and it was a ton of seeds, more than 1/4 tsp. Next year we sowed every one of those seeds, and I kept thinking OMG, what will I do if thousands of these seeds germinate. Well, no such luck, we got 20 seedlings last year. Figured ok, better than the year before and we will always have to sow every single seed we get. So this past year I had more than 1/2 teaspoon of seeds. We sowed 4 mushroom containers of seeds, the 10 ounce size container, put each one in a ziplock baggie and put them out in mid April this year. just an experiment to see if a later sowing would make any difference in the germination rate. They began to germinate on 4/29 the exact same day as the prior to years, and they where slow. But this year we saw how the seeds germinate. they swell to at least twice their original size and all but germinate 1 seed at a time. honest. But there was a huge difference in this years germination. We had mushroom containers totally covered in seedlings. so many that we couldn't separate seedlings and planted hunks of them every where. My neighbor across the street still hasn't planted hers out yet and the entire container is covered in flowers and seedlings covering the container. We have to have thousands of seedlings this year. On top of that, we have seedlings of the viola popping up all over the place in the lawn and my neighbor has several popping up in her yard as well. Doesn't make any sense to me why on the third year with the seeds, second year of collecting seeds we have mass germination and the prior 2 years including the first year from commercial purchase the germination was very poor. Fran
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avedon_gw
11 years ago
I am taking the easy way out and declaring them all my favorites. I have been looking at them over and over and I find something to love about each one. Thank you, Celeste, for the beautiful pictures, they always make my day. Hope there are more to come when you can spare the time. Avedon
crackingtheconcrete
11 years ago
I am always so happy to.see your pics! I also really like Spirit of a Dove and the SC Dreamcatcher is a gorgeous color and pattern! I'm amazed by how many daylilies just thrive at your place. I've been losing a lot of mine to freeze/thaws the last few winters. :/
celeste/NH
Original Author
11 years ago
THANK YOU to my friends for commenting on my pictures! I am always thankful for the enthusiasm and kind words from you. I will be posting more soon because even though the forum is quiet I know that some of you still check in to look.

For Marg & CTC.....I am so happy you all like 'Spirit of the Dove'. It is an intro that not many know about, from Christine Weitz and it is so, so beautiful. The color is definitely lavender, not purple, and the throat is so green the contrast is amazing. Mine grows in partial shade so the color doesn't fade for me and stays a luscious lavender all day. (More pics below).
Glad you also like 'Avis Jean', Marg. This is a HUGE flower! A good 8 inches with very noticeable midribs. Love it.
Jean, I'm posting another photo of 'Hot Town' for you. This one really stands out and I just love it.
Avedon, you know...I'm with you...they're all my favorites too. There's something about each of them that makes me love them. I can't imagine a world without daylilies!
Cracking, I do also love the pattern on 'SC Dreamcatcher'. It's just so unique. I'm surprised daylilies thrive so well here too. It gets so cold and the majority of mine are in raised beds. The past few winters have not been typical with little snowfall and above-average temps with the freeze/thaw you mention.
So far I have been lucky and not lost any but I always fear losses each spring. Some of them get spring sickness and take forever to bounce back, but they always do.

Celeste

SPIRIT OF THE DOVE (again)
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HOT TOWN (again)
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houstmag
11 years ago
OH My what a bunch of beauties you have a gorgeous collection of DL's. I like them all but I think Cat Dancer is my favorite I've always admired and I wish it wasn't a dormant so I could grow it in my part of FL.
Linda
Julia WV (6b)
11 years ago
Beautiful pics. I'm with Linda and love the photo of CAT DANCER and I definitely could grow it here. So why haven't I gotten it yet? Maybe I will :-).
Very much enjoying the pictures so keep'em coming.

Julia
jean_ar
11 years ago
wow!! had to come back again to look at these ggorgeous pictures and see you added ssome more,ThatHOT TOWN really stands out,,BUT, so do the others, too.They are just all so beautiful.Thank you for sharing them all with us.

jean
celeste/NH
Original Author
11 years ago
Linda & Julia....'Cat Dancer' is definitely one of my favorite daylilies. I'm sorry for you Linda that you can't grow dormants where you are because I know you would love this one. Julia...you need to get it a.s.a.p.! And the price is always reasonable on this one.
Jean....I'm going to post some more photos on a new thread as soon as possible because I know you enjoy them so much.

Celeste
jean_ar
11 years ago
well, had to come back again to check to see if any new pictures posted yet, and didnt find any, so looking at these beauties again.Can't get enough of them, they are so pretty..

jean
lynxe
11 years ago
I've been on a red rampage since last year, but I'm now thinking about adding SPIRIT OF THE DOVE to my collection, assuming it's available. I have only one daylily that I'd consider a lavender, so I might "need" it!

What's the branching and bud count been like for you on it? The AHS database says 3 and 14.

I have the same question about LIBERTY BANNER. Thanks!
blue23rose
11 years ago
Wonderful sets! I have Mexican Art and really love it! Love Cat Dancer:)
Cindy zone 6a
11 years ago
Super nice. I do grow a few of these, and then there are the ones I didn't know about :)
Freedom Triumph looks like a nice one!!
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flowergirl929
11 years ago
Very pretty pictures! I am going to have to add Cat Dancer and Liberty Banner to my list of wants. This is an expensive place to visit!
User
11 years ago
How refreshing on snowy day to see so many beautiful blooms. I love Spirit of the Dover - quite spectacular. Thank you for the garden break!

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