daylilies as cut flowers -- would heavy bud builders work?
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Comments (32)Kathy, I too love your gardens, especially the planning. Great job and I'm so glad to see all of the pictures. I have not been able to grow any Asiatic or Easter Lillies. I need to research them more. I've tried twice already. I have a lot of Amaryllis that do very well and purple and blue Irises for Louisiana gardens and beautiful Gladiolas. 17 Rose bushes are tough with our humidity, but the roses are beautiful, wish I could say that for the foliage. The get sprayed a lot, but they are definately no "knock-outs". I always learn too late! I just purchased other varieties of Daylilies and Bearded Irises from websites, and look forward to seeing them bloom. Wish me luck!!! Right now the plants are looking good, but I spent a fortune on them, and anxiously await results. De-Weading is crazy!~ But I do my best. I'm alone in the gardening projects. I also built a small brick patio and put trellises and flowers. Since I am not able to kneel down, or squat (bad knees from an accident) I had to sit down while laying the bricks on top of the pebbles and sand! I layed 3 rowes of bricks behind me and "scooted" as I grabbed and placed the bricks down. What a site to see. It took me 4 months to make a 15' patio. Then I built a small Butterfly garden, and the butterflies and Hummingbirds came, and then my 21' iris and daylily garden. All this happed in 2011. I'm worn out. Will post pictures later, even if they are not well "planned". They are my haven. Wishing us another year to be "Hurricane-free". Mary...See More2012 Daylilies with the most buds
Comments (49)Debra I was half serious about worst bud count. Of course most of the southern plants' bud counts are not even close. And I found a bud builder here! It's George Jets On. Found 2 buds on it yesterday. I thought it was done. And like Jean I count flowers (and then scapes). Last couple years I had a diploid with 300+ flowers but it was sick this year. So this year's winner so far is Soul on Fire with 154 flowers (I consider them doing well when they have over 100 :)) and it had 11 scapes incl. 4 instant. The problem is they all bloom out very quickly. FFO on Soul on Fire was on 6/14 and LFO on 7/19...See MoreIs Citrix a Bud-Builder for you?
Comments (10)I have a few plants that do that from time to time. SILOAM BLUSHING BRIDE will show that trait 1 year out of 3. I am beginning to think it is water and fertilizer that does it. I am just beginning to see scapes here after a very wet spring (I think we set an all time record for rain in May). I can tell you this ORANGE MAN averaged more buds per scape than ever before, and it bloomed almost 2 weeks later than usual. SO I would say maybe CITRIX just feels good this year. Max, It just might be those 2 fans. This'll kill you. I am so stubborn that I still have a single fan of VOLVER I bought 4 years ago. It came from Texas with the signs of having had rust (and got rust). It was shipped to me late because "it wasn't ready yet". It came to me in early June. It may bloom this year. Last year I purchased 4 fans which turned out to be a clump from a garden in Pennsylvania which did very well and bloomed like gangbusters. If you really like CITRIX try getting some from another source....See MoreDaylilies with best bud count, branching this season
Comments (61)I didn't keep bud counts on all of mine but here are some clump shots of my most prolific bloomers. This first one may be a mislabeled seedling. One of the local hybridizers used to line out his seedlings in the same plot as my display garden. He did have an introduction out of 'Open Hearth' and I half suspect this may be a sibling. It was a real wowser though. I did count the buds on 'Desperado Love'. One scape had 32 buds, the rest counted in the high 20s. This is only a two year old plant in my garden. It blooms ML here and is still putting on a show. This one was sold to me as 'Mariachi' but I've learned it is actually 'Mariachi1' as the first "Mariachi" was a diploid that was never released. 'Mariachi1' is a tet. Take a look at this 2yr plant's branching & bloom. 'Mary Todd' is a real bloomer here too. Check out the scape on 'Mexican Maiden' 'Nile Crane' was absolutely gorgeous. Always a favorite performer here, 'Wild Horses' had a long bloom season And finally, my seedling 2007-048-003 (Jennifer Trimmer x Maltese Falcon) had what I would call 4-way branching (though when I asked the garden judges at regional to explain how they count branches they would have called this at least 6-way) and a budcount of 25 in its maiden bloom....See MoreCheryl Goldsmith
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