Hi Marian, and welcome to the forum. I will gladly try to answer any questions you might have about daylilies as well as computers. I'm a grandmother also, but I've been growing dl's for a good number of years and currently have about 850 named cultivars as well as 1000's of my own seedlings. I've also been working with computers for quite a few years, and while I don't claim to know it all, I can usually manage to do anything I want to with them. You can email me from by clicking on the "my page" link in this post and them the "send me an email" from my page.
Jan

A couple of things:

1) LA = Lily Auction - Here is their website. Be careful, it's addictive!

2) How to post photos:

Get a free account at Photobucket. It is easy to use and everyone here knows 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
Here
And Here

3) Good Posts:
What do all those abbreviations stand for?

The sting of Daylily losses......

why would a seller trim roots?

tissue culture

Just curious about PROLIFS

There are a few things to get you started... everyone here is REALLY nice about answering questions...

Welcome, Marian! Jan will be a great mentor for you. She's nice, always helpful, smart as a whip and a great gardener. I've seen pictures of her flower beds and they are gorgeous. She can also lay brick pathways. The girl can do it all, I tell ya!

When I first came here someone told me to put my zone and state near my handle. I would suggest you do it, too. I know you're in Texas from your "My Page" link. But Texas is a big state with several different zones. It will help people remember you and also help them to give correct advice. Of course, I've forgotten how to do this ... LOL - (it was a long time ago and my memory isn't what it should be). But I'll bet Jan remembers how!

Good luck,
Kathy

Just ask. No question is a wrong question and if you wonder about it probably someone else does too. Welcome to the forum!

Janet

Be careful about rust a fungal disease. Are you in the North or South?

Apparently we will all gladly adopt you! You can add your Zone to your posts by going to the bottom of this page and click on Member Pages in that dark green bar. Then you can click on "edit my ...." and change any info you want.

Betsy

Welcome, lovelyiris! You will learn SO much from this forum, it's amazing. Jan will be a great resource for you (and her gardens are inspiring!). If you have ANY questions, none are "too dumb" - we are all beginners at something most of the time, you just happen to be a beginner at daylilies and an expert in other things.

Laurel

P.S. I can't offer lots of advice, since I still consider myself fairly new to daylilies too, but here's a "welcome picture" for you:

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'Green Eyed Pat'

OH, OH, yes, I DO have a helpful thing to add: Tinker's online daylily database is extremely useful. I'll attach the link.

Here is a link that might be useful: Tinker's link to lovely 'lilies

Welcome aboard Marian!....:)

Rick

Welcome, Marian! You've joined a great bunch of gardening folks. And don't worry about any questions you might have -- you'll get plenty of helpful advice here.

Chris

Welcome!!! There are many of us grandmas' on this forum. I have 15 grandchildren and hundreds of grand-daylilies!. We all started someplace and most of us bought lots of daylilies in the beginning and didn't keep track of the names. You are in good company here!

It probably is a waste of time to try to identify any of those first ones and they should just all be named UNK. (Unknown) Since there are over 50,000 registrations at this point, there is no way to really identify a daylily just by a picture and description. Many do try and then just pass along a plant to others that may or may not be the real deal. It really does complicate things and the general public really doesn't care about a name anyway.

I have a few "UNKS" that perform better than lots of recent registrations and I love them. I have never tried to identify them because I realize that is impossible. I just love and enjoy them as garden plants. This is truly a fun hobby IF you don't take anything too seriously. They are plants that we grow for the beauty and all the different suggestions on this and other forums would be impossible to implement. Take what your common sense tells you is good and just discard the rest. Luck, and happy to have you here.

Oh wow, I am overwhelmed by all the responses. I want to Thank each of you for posting. When I logged on and saw all the replies it brought tears to my eyes. Thank You again.

I have been lurking around in the background reading some of the post and everything seems so easy until I try to do it. (grin)I think I probably have the early signs of Alzhemiers. Sometimes I can't remember how to get back to things I've found on here.

Thanks Jan for offering to help with the daylilies and the computer. Trust me I'll need lots of help. I think I need to ask you a question right now. Exactly how deep do I plant my daylilies? I think I have 3 that may not be deep enough. I know you don't want to plant them too deep. But how deep is deep enough. One is kind of laying over some on it's side, and the others the outer leaves keep dying on them. They still have green leaves and new growth what do you think?

Oh Laurel the photograph of the daylily is beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with me. I'm drooling over all of ya'lls beautiful babies already.

Betsy, thanks for telling me to put my zone in the box. I really don't know for sure if I'm in 8 A or B. I live in the Piney Woods of East Texas.

Fairysoapgirl I think I gave you a hard time earlier today on a post about no dirt under your finger nails. Like I said I have a difficult time remember somethings so I may have you mixed up with someone else. Anyway I do thank you for all the links in your post.

Thanks Rick, Chris, Jake, Janet, and Kathy. Each of you have made me feel much more comfortable. I look forward to our friendships blossoming just like the dayliles and other flowers.

Sincerely,
Marian

P.S. I wondered how people remembered everything everyone had said. Then I noticed I could scroll back and then say something after I had re-read one post at a time. Hey, there maybe hope for me yet.

Marian,you can save each post to "My Clippings"on your member page by clicking on "Clip This Post" in the right hand corner. The page shows you the "clip" and then you can add comments in the box if you want.Under the box for comments is the button to save it.
Betsy
I know...Too Much Information!!! LOL!

Well I'm certainly glad someone around here knows EVERYTHING. It just sounds to me like you know what your doing. I do everything by the seat of my pants. IN other words...I do everything the hard way until someone can teach me a better way. I'll practice clipping...but I never was good at clipping coupons for the store, I doubt I'll be good at these clippings either. LOL I always had the coupons in another purse or forgot them on the kitchen counter.

It could be because if it didn't have to do with gardening or the great outdoors I really wasn't interested. As with most of ya'll I'd rather be outside than inside. I'd rather sit and watch butterflies, birds, bugs, fish, frogs, lizards ect. than to be inside watching T.V. Now that's BORING. I also prefer plants for the yard/gardens/flowerbeds than fresh cut roses or anything else that's only going to last a few days. Can anyone else relate to that?

I finally got that through my kids and grandchildrens heads. I'd tell them oh, that's so nice, but you could have got me 5-or 10 irises for the same amount of money and I could enjoy them for years to come. They didn't understand at first but they do now. Thank Goodness. Now I know that I'm going to get a plant/flower of bush that will grow for years when a special day comes around.(grin) I wouldn't have it any other way.

Thanks again, Betsy. I'll try my hand at clipping.
Marian

Hi Marian,
Click on the link below and it will take you to a site where you can enter your postal zip code and it will tell you which USDA hardiness zone you are in.
East Texas piney woods is nice country. Several nice daylily gardens over there.
Welcome,
Ed

Here is a link that might be useful: Zipzones

Thanks Ed, I was posting the wrong zone anyway. According to someone at our local Lowes they said we were in Zone 8. After I typed in my zip code the link you gave me said I was in 7 B. Gosh, I'm learning more than I thought I would today.

Now I'm just wondering where those daylily gardens are. I know we have a big garden in Tyler. I live over an hour from there. Actually I live at least 30 minutes from anything (grin) I live in the BOONIES... down a dirt road.

The Tyler master gardeners are having their big bulb sale tomorrow at the convention center. I went to their sale in the summer and was very disappointed. Most of the things they had to offer I could buy at my local (30 minutes away) Lowes, hometown nursery, so forth.

About 7 or 8 years ago I visited the Castleberry Daylily Gardens right outside of Paris Texas. They had row after row of beautiful daylilies. At the time I was more interested in the ponds they had, the ducks, geese, peacocks and so forth. I did remember that they had daylilies so I googled looking for daylily farms in Paris Texas. Theirs did pop up and I got a phone number. They said it was too wet there this year for them to even dig. Therefore they were closed until next year.

Fortunately I understood where they were coming from. I lost nearly all of my irises due to the rain we had here.
I think the ladies name was Eileen or something like that. She was also a hybridizer best I recall.

Now if you know of some other daylily farms/gardens in this part of Texas please share that information with me.

Best regards,
Marian AKA Lovely Iris

Hi Marian,
One of the premier Daylily Gardens in Texas is Jack Carpenter's Lily Farm which is located just outside of Nacogdoches. Nacogdoches also has a Daylily Club and they hosted the AHS (American Hemerocallis Society - Daylily Society) Region 6 (Texas and New Mexico) meeting this year. There is also a nice garden in Lufkin and a Daylily Club too, but I don't see it open to the public. If you're close to Lufkin, I could see if I can get you an invite.
Anyway, I'll give you a link below to Jack's Place. Have fun!
Ed

Here is a link that might be useful: Jack Carpenter's Lily Farm

Hi Marian,
About how deep to plant your dl's, I never plant more that an inch below the crown. It could be that you've not packed the soil in tightly enough around the roots. When I plant a bare root dl, I always dig a nice big hole to accomodate all the roots, then I form a little mound in the middle of the hole for the crown to rest on and spread the roots out around it. If you'll turn the dl upside down, you'll see a clear area where there are no roots. That's the crown base, and the part you sit on the mound. Then, pack the soil nice and tigthly over the roots. Water it in good and pack the soil again. This will prevent air pockets around the roots. You can tell on the fans, the depth it was planted by the white area. Never plant deeper than it was originally planted. I hope this helps you with your problem.
Jan

Marian, I meant to say an inch "above" the crown!!!! :)
Jan

Thanks Jan and Ed.

So I should replant the ones I think may have some kind of problem. I'm so dumb sometimes. That's exactly how I plant my irises, I make a neat little mound in the middle and squeeze the soil with my fingers and palm, and then spread the roots out and fill it in. Irises don't like their rhizome completely covered tho'. I don't know why I didn't do that with the daylilies. Geez, I told you I was going to be a difficult student.

I'm going out there and replanting those 3. Shoot maybe I should replant all of them.

Ed, I live over an hour North of Tyler so I don't think I'll be able to attend their AHS meeting.Thank you so much for the offer. Actually if I were to attend one of them I think I'd be in deep trouble. I'm already head over hills for them little rascals and I'm on a fixed income. I'm not real sure but I don't think you can eat daylilies.(LOL)

I've been busy trying to replace some of the irises I lost due to all the rain we had. I just couldn't stand not having them gracing my place come spring. That and the fact that they are usually blooming around Easter time. It wouldn't feel like Easter at my place without all the colors of the rainbow blooming and me yelling and telling them grandchildren...YOU BETTER STAY OUT OF THOSE FLOWER BEDS! Then of course taking pictures of them next to the irises.

Thanks everyone for all the help and tips. Now I've got to go look at all those daylilies on the link Ed gave me. That is of course after I go fix those 3 daylilies that need a little TLC.

Tisk Tisk, a gardeners job is never done. Oh well I use gardening as a mental and physical therapy program. Can ya'll relate to that? (LOL)

Happy Gardening Ya'll
Marian

Marion, I hope you don't mind if I chime in my own question--it's kinda along the lines of what you are asking, I think. I saw a thread earlier about air pockets under the crown causing browning of the outer leaves. Is it safe to say this mound should be tightly packed to avoid it settling away? It seems like a good way to stabilize the plant, too, making a firm base for the plant to 'hold on to.'

My new fans have been stripped of outer leaves, and I decided not to go by the white zone, since it seems to me that those missing outer leaves had kept too much of the inner leaves white. Some of mine are snow white up two inches up, easy. I've been going just by the crown. I have some to plant tomorrow--I was thinking I should put a very loose straw mulch up to protect those the white stalks. They just seem so tender. Good idea? Bad idea?

I planted my July fans very shallow to guard against crown rot, but without any mounds. They've all shifted a bit, which is probably no surprise to anyone. Now the weather is cooler, I just left them a bit off and layered another inch of compost on them. It seems too late this year to reposition them and disrupt the roots, and won't they eventually grow straight?