I never liked spiders either, but now I am really into them and ufs.It used to be all about the eyes. Still don't like recurved, though. Who knows? That could change too!
Betsy

My taste has certainly changed. I too have begun to love spiders now which I did not like at all 5 years ago. I now have a nice collection of spiders (but never enough). I have not been able to learn to love yellow, orange nor very many of the reds. I really dislike bitones and I cannot imagine the day will come when I learn to tolerate chicken fat. I am also drawn to intricate eye zones with the Lambertson's being among my favorites.

Well, my taste has changed also. It has gotten more and more expensive.

Dot

I am like ladylovingdove ..mine has gotton more expensive too!!

loveofmylife680, There was a time that someone gave me a couple of spiders and I disliked them intensely. Last year I took a turn for the???? Spiders and UF's are my new love. I can't say that I dislike anything except maybe Mini's and bi-colors of which I have a few. I do not like Stella De' Or though. I love the bagels too, along with the chicken phat. I love edges and some eyes but not all.. You might say that my tastes have definitly changed. Who knows what I will like next....Ellie

What a great question! My problem is I like them all! I still shy away from most oranges, reds, and yellows unless there is something SPECTACULAR about them. My favorites are the intricately patterned eyes.
Dot, you are such a witty, and funny lady! You always make me laugh!
Nancy

i am just a beginer in Daylilies,but,i don't like the Spiders and not very fond of yellows either,OR oranges.I do like the ones with the bold eyes and the ruffle edges.

Jean

Jill, I can't say my tastes have changed all that much, I just love daylilies! Kind of like Will Rogers said, "I never met a "daylily" I didn't like!" Well, I have seen a few that I didn't actually fall in love with, but they are few and far between! I have to say, orange is my least favorite color with the bright gold yellow ones following close behind...but, I like ruffles, chicken fat, spiders, minis, doubles, and everything in between as far as types go. :) Of course as everyone knows, red is my very favorite color. Not orangey reds but good true reds, and I really love the newer ones with the great white or gold edges like Born To Run, although I certainly can't afford that one yet!
Jan

Dot already covered my first remark.

I've gone from Yellows to bitone/poly to eyes and larger ones. I think it was mostly just being 'introduced' to something other than orange ditch, and realizing there's a whole nuther world out here in DL land. Every DAY my tastes change, but I'm still partial to polys, large flowers, and now eyes w/picotee edging.

There are very few that I DON'T like- rust/brown tones, thin-petaled spiders, muddy purples. All the others I find just great! The Wish-List gets sorted only by "which ones do I have to have FIRST."

Oh, and I discovered Diamond Dusting and a thing called VERY fragrant last year. Ok, so I'm REALLY green, but I never knew they were VERY fragrant!!! I love sticking my nose in wonderful-smelling plants. (My hyacinths are up...MMMMMMM!!!!)

I am a sucker for pure pinks with big edges. After that, I like fancy eyes with some blue in there. But, overall, it is the traits that relate to hybridizing that are most important for me. I have groups of cultivars that are intended to create seeds together. Most important thing is having the trait you want without flaws. It all relates to goals...pretty flowers are relatively easy to get. Flowers that have potential to advance the goal without adding to the long-term hybridizing problems are what I look for, rather than a pretty flower.

I've stayed fairly consistent with what I like: old fashioned form; selfs, pure colors (bold to pastel) and blends; etched eyes; some ruffling is good (but not wide gold edges/chicken fat). I like some spiders and UFs, but not the long cascading ones, or the spatulate/crispate ones. Somewhere along the line I've picked up a liking for green throats.

I don't like huge flowers on short plants - that looks unbalanced to me, no matter how nice the blooms are on their own. I still haven't learned to like doubles, but I am getting interested in minis lately, which I hadn't paid too much attention to before. I still put a premium on garden performance, preferring strong rebloomers with good foliage, that can handle my climate (zone 5a/4b Upstate NY). I'm not willing to bend over backwards to make a tender/finicky plant grow in my yard - tough love rules in my garden.

I guess I've learned to like a wider variety of bloom styles and colors (all of my first daylilies were warm/hot colors; it took me a while to try pinks and purples), and to evaluate each flower and plant on its own merits. A beautiful flower on a slow increaser or anemic plant won't make it into my garden (or at least it won't stay long).

Laurel

Not new to growing DLs, but I used to buy ANYTHING pretty. Now I look for high bud count, good branching, hardiness to my northern climate, and late bloomers. Since my gardens go through an August lull, I need those strong late bloomers to perk things up. Have never had spiders before, because I thought they looked skinny and silly. I've ordered several this year, however, along with some UFO's to see how I like them.

My absolute favorite kind of DL will always be something that stands out from far across the yard, demanding to be noticed. And that would be a solid bright color, usually pink.

I am also one of those odd ones that likes the native DLs. We have lots of wooded areas where native daylilies and tiger lilies grow together, and I never get tired of watching them increase. (They are not allowed in any of my gardens though)

Julie

I remember several years ago I saw some of the first pictures of the extreme gold ruffling in the Daylily Journal. I wasn't an AHS member and didn't have internet at the time so was very behind in "cutting edge" (Probably still am for that matter) Anyway, I thought at the time how ugly and overdone those plants were. I've come around. I also didn't like any kind of spider. I've come around on those to the point that I like flowing UF's but not necessarily skinny spiders. Give me time I guess.

I still like some of the old ones too. I still appreciate good clean clear colors and lovely watermarks.

Janet

I don't think my tastes have changed much. I love matching eyes and edges. The chicken fat edges are not my favorite. I like spiders and UFs. I guess the bagle shape is my least favorite but I still have many of them:-) I like all the colors to a degree but my least favorite would probably be rust-colored. I like bright orange. My favorite color in all flowers, clothes, etc is pink.

I don't really like spiders. Ever since I saw this movie as a kid with really big radioactive spiders attacking people and eating.............. Oh my wife said you guys were talking about flowers....... Never mind.

Charlie

I tend to be leaning towards larger flowers and solid colours. I started really liking the mid size with eyes and edges. I still like them but would rather have something like Victorian Lace over Sungold Candy. That said I did get Unending Melody for this year. I guess there are no absolutes.

Edward

I don't think my taste has changed much, if at all. I started out liking them all and still do. My least favorite would be anything tan/brown. But if it was planted in the proper place with the right companion plants, I'd probably like them, too. Still...I don't think I'd ever buy a brown daylily. My favorites would be the most floriferous...the workhorses...even if the flowers aren't always perfect. Gimme lots and lots of color!
Kathy

Charlie, picture this...one of those theaters where you sit at a table and can order drinks and food. A couple of strong margaritas, make it three, and a high budget remake of the spider movie playing with surround sound! And you are sitting in the front row!

Simplton, lol you aint right as they say in my neck of the woods! lol
Jill

Charlie, you tickle me pink.....Ellie

( My favorite daylily color.)

I just can't warm up to Spiders and UF's...maybe my taste hasn't developed that much yet...but then I like Ditch Lilys and adore Kwanzo's...all that health and vigor in usually less than ideal planting areas...

I just LOVE 'eyes'...I have a couple of clumps of Rainbow Candy that just make me so ridiculously happy when they are in bloom-they are sooo pretty and they smell good, even thinking about them puts a smile on my face!

I like the lighter, brighter colors, some of the darker colors are just a bit too funky for me.

Odd, every winter I think I've finally 'kicked' the Daylily Addiction, and every spring it comes back stronger than ever!!!! I am seriously running out of ROOM for any more daylilys...

~Michele

I have never been a fan of doubles of the type where the stamens have become petaloid - always looked irregular and deformed to me. However, now I find myself looking at those with more interest. I've always liked the very regular hose-in-hose type doubles where there are multiple sets of tepals, 'Kwanso' being one of those. 'Double Cutie' is also one of those, a clear butter yellow with double, sometimes triple, 4" flowers on short scapes.

I also started out being most interested in very hot oranges and reds (which I still love), but what I'm most likely to buy these days are yellows that verge toward green, in part because of the color and in part because the Hemerocallis flava in their heritage tends to result in more intense fragrance.

- Steve

Wade. If you could pick your women like you pick your flowers--well. My tastes are always changing. Being a hybridizer, new things come each year of which have never been seen before. A new face gets me, but the real test is whether or not I keep wanting to look at it every time I pass it. Those are usually the keepers. Having said that, there are some daylilies I've had for years, that probably wouldn't sell for over $5 on the auction, but I wouldn't be without them. "War Paint" is one. It's an old-fashioned bi-color but to see it every Summer in its' glory is like meeting an old friend for coffee after not seeing them all winter. The feeling I get is so comforting. Bob

I didn't care for spiders, now I have a bunch of them. I still can't do doubles, but there was one I recieved as a bonus last year I kind of liked, so I sent it to someone.

They have Chunky's in Zone 7???!!!

My first wife and mother of my son is great. We were together almost 20 years. She was a perfect mother and stayed home. After 15 years together she started working, and that's when she changed. She got too much attention from men. Four years after our divorce and she still dates all the time.

Second wife I made a mistake. I gave her the benefit of the doubt, when it should have been face value only. Her whole life is a lie. It was her 7 year old daughter that I committed to. Long story, but she is doing well now and her mother learned how to be a mother. I didn't really understand that women could have severe emotional instabilities.

In being a true Taurus, I am a hopless romantic and I am very close to the earth. I am a very positive person, but I don't have much ambition anymore. I prefer being self-employed and working part-time. Poor but happy I guess. Not attractive for a woman in her 40s...they want disposable income and a life of convenience.

usually I just buy what catches my eye, the only exception being when I saw that Marietta had one named Fat Lady Sings I had to have it

Sounds like the spiders have grown on lots of us. I didn't care for them at first either but now love the look of them in with other shapes.

Always thought (and still do) that the bagel or recurved shape looks constricted and nervous. I always feel like pulling the petals out so they can be free and flow in the wind.

I have to agree with the many who have learned to like spiders. They have grown on me. One colour I have never really had a liking for in the garden is yellow, but the daylily has changed my mind on that. Some of the yellow and golds that I grow are just incredible. I am still not fond of orange as I think they still all look the same.

Jim

Darks are not really a favorite but I absolutely LOVE Serena Dark Horse! It's so velvety and rich. I like Dark Avenger too.

VG

WOW. I guess I'm the opposite of the real daylily folks. I am just starting to get interested in them after claiming for years that I don't care for them. What started it was seeing a pic of Black Plush on WWF's website. I said to my daughter, "Whoa, now there's a daylily even I can love." It just took my breath away. I started for searching for these spiders in all the colors I'm hearing people don't care for - oranges, maroons, and yellows. To me that's the natural color of the daylily. I always had a soft spot (and a big patch in my garden) for ditch lilies, both the regular and the flore pleno. I also like the spiders because they have exaggerated that natural narrow petal form. To me, they look like a sunset in the garden. I kept my ditch lilies and old-fashioned dark red (like Crimson Pirate or something) daylily just on the edge of a shade bed to capitalize on that sunsetty thing. But now I'm ordering some of those gothic-looking spiders and creating all new sunny beds for them. I'm just loving this! Have my eye on one called Aztec Firebird - OMG...
So, now...to the point. I am just beginning (with the help of my daughter's generous insight) to appreciate some of those other types...don't know the terminology yet...the dusky pinks and peaches and mauves with fat petals and ruffled edges. I actually ordered one called Winn Baby Dawn off Ebay. Anyone know it? It was cute. Now, I'm seriously considering ordering Kansas Kitten. I have just the spot for it, but it's kind of expensive. Never thought I'd see the day...