Been watching your weather, hope these storms did not affect you. It's turning out to be a long winter for our friends in the north, know you are anxious about your plants arriving and what kind of weather you will have at that time. Good luck.

I don't have any of those Lillian series, but I like the looks of several. Especially like L.Eye Did It

Fred Manning had a naming contest for several of his daylilies last year, and believe it or not, I submitted the name Lillian's Eye Did It--what a shock when he and his wife chose it. I received a double fan for my prize and I can hardly wait to see it bloom.

Congrats to you! I would be excited too.

What fun, you chose a great name. Congratulations!

I'm sitting here wondering when the north will ever dig out enough to ship daylilies. Don't get me wrong I don't want them yet. We are having another cold front move in tomorrow (Friday/Saturday) with wind chills in the teens and actual night temperatures in the mid 20's. I did a mad scramble to get all my little pots back inside the garage after trying to harden them off last week. Between the cold and the rain, we just haven't had more then a few days of temperate spring weather yet. BUT if I were a betting woman, I'd bet our heat will have no such trouble finding us by Mid May........Neato Avedon on the naming contest. If you've already got them in the ground then you apparently aren't having our weather problems. Look forward to seeing them bloom......Maryl

Well, when this next cold front comes through, we may be out covering plants. We may get rough storms by tonight, and that's no fun. Then the cold, and my husband has some of the veggie garden out. The tomatoes and peppers will definitely be covered if needed as will any of our other cold sensitive plants. It happens here every April, all plants growing nicely and then bam!! Frosts or sometimes a light freeze, and we run around trying to do all the cover-up. Also, just found scapes on three daylilies--the new ( as of last fall) Lotus Position, Tribal Council, and Miss Victoria.

New scapes! I hope they aren't damaged. They could give you really early blooms and me nice pictures to look at....... Fingers crossed for all of us. As I said, we will probably go from 25 to 95 in a months (or less) time and I'll look longingly at this cooler weather...............Maryl

I haven't ordered any new ones, but I do have my eye one one...Purple Twister did not survive so there is a place for it. I ordered so many new ones last year that will bloom the first time (hopefully) this year. I am looking forward to seeing your new ones, Avedon.

kay

Plants were covered last night, 30 degrees when we got up this a.m. to sunny skies so plants are being uncovered right now. I don't think we have to cover tonight. Yes, seeing the flowers for the first time is so fun. There will be 19 new ones this spring. With the cold weather, I would guess that the northern DL orders may be delayed for a week or two. Oh, got an order from Abundant Daylilies on Thursday, they were planted Friday and they were covered--we didn't want to risk any damage to them. Abundant sent Adventures In Oz, Child Of Atlantis with extra fans, and Entwined In The Vine, all very nice plants. Kay, looking forward to seeing all yours this season, new and old. You have such beautiful flowers.

P.S. I should have added that Friday night we were under tornado warnings for about an hour. I spent some time in the "tornado closet", but fortunately only some hail, wind and rain that did no damage and it's amazing that nothing was hurt.

Maryl, Lotus Position was covered, didn't want to lose those scapes. Just hope this is it for the cold weather that can do damage. No doubt everybody is ready for better weather, we sure are.

Crazy weather this year. Winter want to stick around, even though it should be gone. Congrats Avedon on winning Fred's naming contest. Looking forward to seeing your new ones!

Friday night it got down to 26 here, and last night it dropped down to only 30. It won't get above 60 until mid week when our winds come roaring back. Do any of you have insufferable spring winds? Tornadoes are one thing (very scary), but trying to work outside in a constant 25-35 mph wind for days at a time gets on my nerves.......Happy to hear you didn't loose your scapes Avedon. I've got a few new daylilies coming, including one you enabled me on with a picture. I just need time to do my "thang" with my old potted daylilies first before my new ones show up. In other words I need some good gardening weather real soon.............Maryl

Debra and all, I am so hoping for at least one bloom scape on Lillian's Eye Did It. Fred says it is sold out, so it must be appealing to quite a few people who love small flowered daylilies. Maryl, what daylily are you getting that I did the enabling--I am trying to think of something with ruffles, so is it Sweet Isbela? You know I rarely do ruffles. so just a guess.