My Humble Daylilies and some to identify

13 years ago

Hi,

I'm new to this forum but am a frequent contributor on the roses/antique roses forum. I want to tell you all that I have been enjoying your photos and posts. I have about a dozen daylilies that I've had for years but I am now getting seriously interested in daylilies and have my very first order coming from Maryott's next week. (I feel a new addiction coming on!).

I have always grown true lilies from bulbs and have a huge

lily garden devoted just to them, but because our local garden centers only carry the basic/boring daylilies, I had truthfully never given them a second glance. Now that I've seen all your photos here and gone on so many DL websites, I realize that there are some outstanding beauties out there that I simply must have!

The ones I currently have are modest, by comparison.

But they have been faithful friends in my garden, coming back year after year and bringing their own simple grace

to my world. Here are my meager offerings for now, but

NEXT year, I'll have some real stunners to show you thanks to Maryott's! I also have many that I bought that I don't know the name of, and I posted a couple of them to see if

anybody knows. Thanks for looking!

SIR MODRED (SOMETIMES SEEN AS 'SIR MORDRED'...I don't know which is correct).

BLACKBERRY CANDY

BARBARA MITCHELL

SILOAM ETHEL SMITH

ROYAL FROSTING

WINEBERRY CANDY (MINE LOOKS MORE SALMON IN TONE THAN PINK)...

WOODSIDE RUBY....

CATHERINE WOODBURY...

NOID... (This one only blooms once, but sends up multitudes of scapes and is an amazing bud producer).

The color is very bright and very intense, more so than my simple camera can capture.)

This 'NOID' is HUGE and HIGHLY FRAGRANT. It measures 7 inches across and the fragrance is so strong I can smell it without having to bend down to sniff it. It never had an ID tag so I have no clue what it is.

Here's the weird part....when I bought it (potted) it was

all in one pot, but it seems as if it is two different yellow daylilies, because the blooms are so different. Although both measure 7 inches across and both are fragrant, the coloring is different and the forms are different. I had planted the entire clump together, thinking it was all the same plant, but when it bloomed, even though they bloomed at the same time, they weren't exactly alike. Does anybody have a guess if they are the same cultivar, or are they two totally different lilies? The darker yellow also has 2 extra sepals (if that's the word).

One variation....

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the other....

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daylily_dreamer
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Those are beautiful! Welcome! If you go to daylilies.org and click on the database and punch in part of the name you will find the correct registration. I came up with Sir Modred registered in 1990 by Webster. Again - welcome!
Julia WV (6b)
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Welcome to the forum. Your orange colored NOID one looks like SOMBRERO WAY. Only a guess. Here is a pic of mine.

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It is a Dormant, send ups loads of scapes and buds and starts to bloom mid to late July and blooms through through late August.

The pic of BARBARA MITCHELL is quite lovely as is all the photos.

Julia
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Prettypetals_GA_7-8
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Those sure are mighty pretty missy!! All of our lily friends on here will be amazed i'm sure at all your beauties next year if its anything like all your rose beauties. You guys should go pull up all of Celestes previous post in the rose forum and you will see what a treat this woman truely is. She will fast become one of your most favorite lily friends.

Celeste you are the most eloquent speaker of words I have ever heard. I love reading your posts. I too have ordered bunches of lilies from several places and sooooo can't wait til next year. Well you take care and I will talk to you later, Judy
aquawise
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
The first NOID looks like my Tangareene Horses. Not so Orange as SOMBRERO WAY.
organic_kitten
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Those are lovely photos. I am very happy to see you on this forum. Your yellow NOID is lovely and quite impressive. I'm sorry I can't help with the ID, but some of our gurus may figure it out.
kay
celeste/NH
Original Author
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
THANK YOU for all your comments! I appreciate all of your taking the time to look at my pictures and trying to help with the id's. And Judy....thanks for the compliments....you are SO sweet!

Julia, that photo of yours does look like my first NOID. Because we have had such drought conditions this summer, mine was not as brightly hued as it normally is, and it is usually the color in your photo. It does look some like Tangerine Horses as well, but when I looked that lily up it has more ruffling than mine.

Does anyone think its odd when looking at the very last photo of my yellow NOID, that it has EIGHT petals/sepals?
Every daylily I've seen has 6, including the lighter yellow that's growing with it.

Thanks!
Celeste
newyorkrita
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Daylilies sometimes poly. Enjoy the poly flower when it happens as the next will be back to normal. Your 'humble' daylilies are all quite pretty and we all have some no IDs. Just stick around, we will have you as addicted to daylilies as the rest of us here in no time!
blue23rose
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Welcome!! These are very beautiful! The framing really sets off the pictures. My favorite is CATHERINE WOODBURY.

On the first NOID, my initial thought was that it looked like SEA GOLD. But I looked at a picture of mine and it didn't quite look the same. Then I went to Tinker's Gardens database and saw another picture of it, and thought I would go ahead and throw out the suggestion because it does look more vibrant in their picture. You might want to check it out.

I don't know about the second NOID. Seems like you may have received two different daylilies in the same pot, but if they are that much similar in all other aspects other than color, I don't know what's going on.

Vickie
numama
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
WELCOME to the daylily forum Celeste! A fine bunch of daylilies you've posted. No help where the NOIDs are concerned but I think your clump is TWO different daylilies. The one with 4 petals and 4 sepals is called a POLY BLOOM. There are certain cultivars the spit out poly bloom every now and then, some don't. There are hybridizers out there hybridizing cultivars that poly all the time. Daylilies are SO MUCH FUN because of all the different forms, colors, etc. Easy to hybridize too! WELCOME TO THE FUNNEST ADDICTION in the world!
Nancy
celeste/NH
Original Author
13 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Hey, thank you guys for the explanation of the poly bloom.
I am going to pay closer attention to that one to see how often it does that. Wonder what it is that makes them make poly blooms? That one looks like the sun, all yellow, with its many rays extending outward. I wish it would stay poly!

I am enjoying my newfound love of daylilies and am currently reading backwards all the posts I've missed til now. I especially love the ones ripe with luscious photos!
I've already made up a ridiculously long wishlist, so I guess I'm officially a member here...lol.

Celeste

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