Chris...you're gonna love BBE...it's a small one, but very pretty. Lrae...thanks, glad you enjoyed them. :) Shelly...you really need to get BBE...LOL, another one for your list!! FSA didn't have many blooms, but they sure were pretty. I'm hoping for better things from her next season. ML is so dark, even darker that my Jungle Beauty which is a nice "black" also. GG...yep BBE was my bonus from Mariettas. It's been a late bloomer for me, so maybe you'll get scapes yet on it. I envy you going to Richmond for regionals. So far, I haven't been able to make any of the DL tours. Sure would love to though. :) Marea...thanks. Lace Cookies was one of my first to bloom this season also. Since yours are just now beginning to bloom, I'll expect to see lots of beautiful photos to give me my daily "fix" since mine are winding down now. :) Betsy....Thanks, and please do post lots of photos. I hope you get tons of bloom to keep all of us southern folk happy. Julie....you've got me blushing girl. It's not my photography really. It's beautiful blooms and my camera. :) Sp. ER is a wonderful dl, and has increased very fast for me. She has really strutted her stuff this season. FSG...since this was her very first bloom season in my garden, and she's still settling in, the bud count was pretty low, but I'm expecting a greater show from her next season. SHN....Thanks, glad you enjoyed them. I do not grow LBB but would really love to have it. Do you grow her? Thanks to all of you for your comments. Jan

Vela: See my post above re: Munsons. Munson was a famous hybridizer who really failed to get major recognition until after his death around the year 2000. His daylilies and hybridizing efforts are the basis of many of the new cutting edge daylilies that have all the wonderful watermarks and eyes. He also had a flair for the simple elegant look in some daylilies such as Lilac Snow shown above. With that being said, a large group of people like myself and several others on here started collecting his daylilies before they are lost forever. Some of us are using them in our own hybridizing efforts as the incredible gene pool he created has been barely been touched. I have been looking at some catalogs from Daylily Discounters that another poster so generously sent me so I can scan them.. Some are lost forever such as Roadmaster I am afraid. I am about to start scanning them now that I can breathe again (Daylilies are winding down and my son is all graduated from High School) so I can get them back to her. I will post a link to my PictureTrail Account when completed once I figure out what to scan and post there. The earlier Daylily Discounters catalogs mixed them in with others so I will need to be selective as I do not have much more room on that account!! LOL

Have you any familiarity with the Kheulavator? Agri Supply carries them. It takes some doing to get a variety of widths on raised beds and so I really can't recommend one. However, I've dealt with one for about 10 years now. I have a Kubota L4400 with a Lands Pride rototiller. After I rototill the garden I use the k'vator to hill the row/bed. I then rake it by hand to level it and establish the width and height. Usually my beds are about 10-14" above grade. The width can be anywheres from 8" to 36" wide. Wider than that isn't really practical and it's actually easier to just use the rototiller. I recently decided to design and build a bed shaper to fit on the tiller. I typically will ask the community at 'tractorbynet.com' to assist me with the design, under the appropriate forum(s). You can't cross-list so I try to ask specific design questions rather than one general question. I've been doing raised beds with a drip irrigation line arrangement for a long time. If you'd like to share info on them we could start another thread here or share on tractorbynet. I need to start taking pictures of the garden and progress anyway. I'm not the best a) housecleaner or b) photographer. I get a little shy of taking pictures of my garden as there is always some level of chaos i.e., tools scattered around along with drip fittings, pvc, implements, dying vegetation etc. Inhibits me from shooting pics. However I am sort of computer literate and can handle the upload side of stuff usually. This year I decided to put into use my jang jp3 seeder. I just did leeks and bulb/bunching onions. CAn't comment on singulation or skips as they're just starting to germinate after 2 weeks. I have a good assortment of rollers and look to use the seeder this season in order to get familiar with it. I have had it sitting unused for the last 10 years. The reason is the raised beds aren't really accepting of a multi row hand seeder. It also was binding on the rollers to the extent that you could not push it down the row cause the driving wheels would stick! Pretty lousy for a 1k USD machine. This year I hand sanded the rollers and their receivers until enough movement was created to allow the seeder's use. Johnny's seeds has been goofing around with them. They have a good cross referenced EXCEL sheet with their suggestions for type of seed/roller correspondence. Makes roller selection better than guessing although the top of the seed hopper has indentations for seed/roller identification. If setting up a thread for discussion sounds amenable to ya let me know ok? Is there a way to PM on garden web? psient Psient

Nice pictures. Your seedling is lovely. I love the bicolors and the soft colors of yours is a bit different from the usual ones. Pink Stripes is a wacky thing. I think we need to get this one even if it is a dip. (We grow mostly tets.) The effect of River Wind when it is a polytepal is neat. Nancy