New to this forum, started my collection last year

16 years ago

Hi, I am Tatyana from RI. I inherited a daylily bed that has never been divided in 5-7 years, so after I saw the blooms last summer. I divided and shared a lot of babies. I also had 3 varieties given to me, but the lady didn't knwo the names... I am excited to identify my daylilies, I have pictures of only 4 so far and looking forward to meeting "prfessional daylily fanatics"...dream to be one some day :)

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okbt
16 years ago
Hi,Tatyana,and welcome! You are taking pictures and calling them babies,so you already are a fanatic! Post your pics and we will try to guess,but positive ids on plants that you have no idea of what they could be are not really likely. If you get in to hybridizing,and use any of your unknown plants,you would just list the parent as "unknown". Go ahead and post the pics you have and I'll give it a shot.

Betsy
tweetypye
16 years ago
Welcome to the forum Tatyana...glad to have you...we can always use another "DL ADDICT"!!!!
Naaa...you're gonna love it here...lots of great dl folk and someones always willing to help you with any questions or point you in the direction of the Lily Auction..ahem...not me this time folks...I'll let someone else hook this one!! :) I did my deed for the day on another thread...LOL
Jan
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forget-me-knotz
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Thank you for warm welcome, I am trying to figure out how to post pics... I'll do some resaerch on this site, gosh, I am so new, I couldn't find my own posting for a month!

Haha, anyway, I will post them soon!
Tatyana
fairysoapgirl
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Welcome Tatyana! This is a great place for DL addicts, eer, um, I mean collectors. :o)

How to post photos:

Get a free account at Photobucket. It is easy to use and a lot of people here know how to help you. It should guide you through how to use it, but here are some links on this forum if you have trouble:

Here

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Or type in the word "photobucket" to the search function here... a ton of posts will come up
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