Trying this again with better hope....

5 years ago

We have all been so frustrated, I know. I certainly have...perhaps even more so with the blah response I have received from Houzz. "we are aware of the picture posting issues. Engineering is working on a solution". Judging from the posts on this forum and the posts on other forums I visit, "engineering" has certainly known about this issue for quite some time. In my experience, it is not engineering but good computer technicians (maybe not even really good ones) who can "fix"these issues. Perhaps engineering should turn the problems over to those people!! I had become so frustrated trying to post my last post, not being able to post in the start discussion, posting in the comment section, losing my post, and then not being able to post in the comments that I just threw in the towel and indicated that would be my last post until this issue was remediated. However, I have been reading in some of the frustrated posts how many of us actually feel: this is almost an extended family forum where we care about people when they are ill, when we don't hear from them, when they lose family, when they lose beloved pets, etc. And we love to share our common interest, daylilies. And we enable each other to spend more money!!

As an educator, I have spent my entire career encouraging children and then teachers to do your best and don't give up, however daunting the task. I think I must now rethink my initial frustrated reaction and try to continue to post in a "whatever it takes" frame of mind. And I also have a new true story example to share with teachers when I begin my fall workshops on perseverance in the face of frustration!!

With that wordy tome, I shall attempt to post in comments. And, if I cannot, I shall try again, and again.

Kate

Featured Answer

lilykate7a
Original Author

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

Aslan

Spacecoast Lipstick Kisses

Mount Herman Autumn

Bela Lugosi--standing tall

Sort by:Oldest

Comments (17)

Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
5 years ago
It's become my daily exercise in futility to try and post a picture under the header. I agree with what you said. To have done this right in the middle of gardening season shows the height of stupidity..........Maryl
Related Discussions
Try Try Again ( hopefully the start of a lengthy debate)
Q
Comments (11)
Agree with 3 strikes and you are out ------ don't necessarily follow it. After 2 strikes I take pause and try to find out as much as possible about the natural environment of the failing plant. I also try to identify a grower who successfully grows them. I have tried over and over again with Dendrobium cuthbersonii and have always failed . So I finally talked to Tom Perlite from Golden Gate Orchids who grows these things like I grow Dandelion and got some hints from him. Now it takes me 2 years to kill them instead of one. I have finally given up on these little beauties. Dendrobium nobile is another example. No matter how closely I follow the instructions as to how to grow them, winter rest etc, I cannot get a decent bloom. Either they don't bloom or they make a few lackluster blooms. So I finally talked to the grower in Hawaii who is the source of most of the commercial nobiles you see on the market every spring. Success, last spring all 3 of mine bloomed ------------ with a few lackluster flowers! Enough, they went on the plant table of my society and I'm done with them. Miltoniopsis; Killed every one of them in the past. Finally talked to Theresa Hill form Hillcrest Orchids who grows beautiful Miltoniopsis. Her advice was simple, keep them cool in the summer, warm in the winter, they like to be within 5F of 60F. Doing this I am now growing them successfully, meaning the plant is increasing in size. Last year they even bloomed, one or two spikes on a large plant. That should have been 10 spikes or more. So I'm not there yet and unless they pick it up may also give up on them but not yet. Parvisepalum Paphiopedeliums: I just got started with these so have no failures to report. Go to the Gallery where you see an entry I placed yesterday of my first success with Paph armeniacum. They also have a reputation of being a little difficult and I had a discussion with Dr Holger Perner at the San Francisco show who thinks most people are growing them wrong. Most people treat them as cold growers. True in the winter but not true in the summer. In their natural habitat, the ones from China get treated to a bright, sunny, cold, dry winter and a shady, hot, humid and very wet summer. The result of the monsoon season there. So unlike Dracula who should be kept as cold as possible in the summer, these Paphs should go in the warm greenhouse and drenched every day. Since there are 35,000 species of orchids available, I generally don't mess with ones that don't like me. My greenhouse is full of robustly growing plants. Not because I'm a genius but because that is the price they have to pay in order to stay. If a plant lingers, grows poorly and fails to bloom, I will get rid of it. Visitors to my growing area think I do magic because most plants look very healthy when in fact it is a process of throwing them against the wall and if they don't stick, they don't stay. There are innumerable others to replace...
...See More
Try, try again!
Q
Comments (7)
Alys, I love your plans! I wish I would have put that much thought into my garden before I started digging in. Right now I just have a big rectangle in the back yard, but hopefully it will evolve into something beautiful like you have planned. In fact I just learned about potager gardens from reading this forum a few nights ago. I had to wiki it to find out what exactly it was. Such a cool and pleasing way to plan a garden. I already have the neighbors peeking over my fence. Once I get something like that going, they will be climbing! Good luck and have fun digging (that's my favorite part)! Jacci
...See More
Try, try again
Q
Comments (3)
Speaking of things from your mom.... I took this bowfront chest from my mom's place a few months ago. I remember her "antiquing" over the mahogany when I was very little. I told myself I'd undo her work, but now I have my doubts. I'm learning to live with it. A smallish thing like this with plenty of drawers is so handy. I have all my gym clothes in it, as well as some other things. It's really too big for a nightstand, but next to the bed is the only place it can go. Too bad I can't strip my way into some more space. Now THAT would be worth strapping on the mask and heavy gauntlets for.
...See More
Two strikes on knobs, try try again?
Q
Comments (15)
Holly-kay, in my mind you are the hardware goddess of GW; I understood what you meant, no worries! Romy718, if it was just me, I would go all knobs on the uppers. But I am taking dh's wishes into consideration, a little, and I do like the look of my pulls in a vertical position. I have them that way on pullouts and the few lower doors. I could certainly be wrong - I have been spectacularly wrong on hardware so far! Rococogurl, you are likely right. But I just couldn't get those knobs out of my head! I am worried this may be one of Jakuvall's "don't let a good idea ruin a design - use it next time" examples. I may send those knobs back and pay the restocking fee...or decide to use them in my bedroom...or just put them in my kitchen and know that while I love them no one else sees them the same way. I don't think I'm going to have a "next time" in remodeling a kitchen. I'm quite interested in how design elements successfully migrate from different rooms - I think lots of people first see mop (and my mop mosaic) as "bathroomy" and my GC was appalled by the idea of glass knobs in my kitchen - he said they are good for tween girls and strippers, lol! People with my level of talent really ought to just follow design rules and use experts. Winston Churchill once said that American will always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities. Call me patriotic, I've got the "exhausting all other possibilities" part down pat!
...See More
shive
5 years ago
Hooray! You got some through on the comments! Aslan is beautiful. I like the soft blended colors of Mt. Herman Autumn, and the Bela Lugosi clump is stunning. I'm glad the deer stayed away from those.

Debra
lilykate7a
Original Author
5 years ago
Giving me baby pics, I see. Oh well, I shall forge ahead!!
Carnival in Mexico. Sorry, not the best photo. (Certainly not Debra worthy!!!) The site is being verrry slow. Not wanting me to load....keep going!
Mystical Rainbow. I have posted this one before, but was especially lovely yesterday.
Michael Miller has been lovely this year. I know it may not perform well in northern gardens but it has really put out stunning shows for me. It is not as short as it would appear in this photo. That is a huge triloba rudbeckia beside it giving it shade.

I will post these and add more. It really does not want me to post. I may begin taking this personally!!!!
lilykate7a
Original Author
5 years ago
I attempted more in the comments and it kept indicating it could not load page so I will stop now and add more later. I have so many!!!!! As Maryl said, right in the middle of the season!! It was so good before that we southerners could get ours in, then glide to the gardens farther north and enjoy their beauties and end with Celeste's beautiful late photos. Now they are just all in chaos in our well orchestrated garden system!!

Kate
mantis__oh
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Michael Miller is indeed a striking pure white, nicely flat. I saw only a few blooms of it, but glad that it grows well for you.
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
5 years ago
Glad you got as many done as you did before they pulled the plug. I've been tempted to just move over to another forum, but I'd miss all the people here. We all do/say more then just show pictures at breakneck speed. BTW, in case you didn't know you can get a big picture by clicking on the little picture, but who wants to do that all the time............My two favorites are Mount Herman Autumn and Mystical Rainbow. Both of them are exceptionally pretty to me............Maryl
organic_kitten
5 years ago
Lovely post, Kate! Glad you got through with it. I like mount Herman Autumn....I son't really recall noticing it before, probably because yellows have just recently begun to interest me, but it is lovely. Carnival in Mexico looks good...I put that in apot yesterday, as it is another I have wanted for a while and finally got...they don't have to be new to be pretty. Mystical Rainbow is gorgeous. Lovely post, and no one comes up to Debra except may Julia, try as we might.

kay
Laura twixanddud - SE MI - 5b
5 years ago
Beautiful blooms, Kate! Thanks for taking the time to share them.
celeste/NH
5 years ago
I love your perseverance and attitude! It would be a darn shame if this little daylily 'family' of ours is broken up because of the stupid glitches. I will be sad if no one sticks around because then I'd have no one to share my daylilies with.....they're SO close to blooming now. My family and friends don't have any interest and except for a neighbor who peeks over as she's backing out of her driveway......I'd be really lonely for daylily companions! That being said, I'm so happy you kept at it and they are all beautiful, especially to my eyes that are still anticipating and dreaming. Aslan and Michael Miller are my picks for the prettiest (but they would not like my climate) so my favorite is the reliable Mystical Rainbow. That's an especially pretty shot.
sherrygirl zone5 N il
5 years ago
Thanks for persevering,I so enjoy everyone’s photos. I especially enjoyed seeing Bela Lugosi here today! I added BL to my garden this spring and saw a first bloom this week, I must say photos don’t do it justice! I got BL after seeing posts here over the past few years. I would be soooo disappointed if anyone here gave up in frustration, I do understand the frustration, had a bit of my own early on.

Sherry
samhain10 - 5a
5 years ago
Kate - these are all lovely! I particularly like Mystical Rainbow. One of the NOIDs you sent that you initially thought was Leguna Seca, and then decided was Mystical Rainbow, is definitely some other beauty. Here's an image - can you tell what it is? It's 6-3/4", but very short, which I attribute to it's only being planted this spring.

Alex
lilykate7a
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks all. This is certainly why we try to persevere, I think. Like Celeste, I don't have a support group of "lovers of lilies" so rely on this group. Kay, I should have noted that those are ffes of Carnival in Mexico in my garden. Some shots of it on this forum made me decide I really "needed" it!! Sherry, I think you will like Bela; you are correct, it is hard to capture how deep and striking it is; probably the purest purple I have in my garden. And Alex, no, I don't know what that is!! That picture of Mystical Rainbow above is from a plant in a pot that had the Leguna Seca label from my friend's garden dig. And I pulled your plant from that pot!! I will send you Mystical Rainbow from the plant that is now blooming!!! This garden dig is getting to be quite the adventure!!

Kate
jkayd_il5
5 years ago
I really like Asian. My Mystical Rainbow was the last daylily in my garden so the first one the deer got to. We moved it in front this year and it has 16 scapes. Very excited for it to bloom.
tarheelgirl_7b
5 years ago
Beautiful post Kate! Thank you for posting! My favorites include Aslan, Mount Herman Autumn, Carnival in Mexico, and Michael Miller.

Lori
Julia WV (6b)
5 years ago
Mystical Rainbow and Michael Miller show really well. Nice group.
samhain10 - 5a
5 years ago
Kate - well, it's a beauty anyway -LOL! That photo was taken around 3 PM since I was up before dawn and on the road all day till then. There's a second bloom getting ready to open this morning; I'll see what a morning pic looks like before I cut the scape.

Alex

Trying this again with better hope....

lilykate7a
Original Author

Comments (17)

Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)

Related Discussions

shive

lilykate7a
Original Author

lilykate7a
Original Author

mantis__oh

Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)

organic_kitten

Laura twixanddud - SE MI - 5b

celeste/NH

sherrygirl zone5 N il

samhain10 - 5a

lilykate7a
Original Author

jkayd_il5

tarheelgirl_7b

Julia WV (6b)

samhain10 - 5a

COMPANY

BUSINESS SERVICES

GET HELP

CONNECT WITH US

Trying this again with better hope....

lilykate7aOriginal Author

Comments (17)

Related Discussions

lilykate7aOriginal Author

lilykate7aOriginal Author

lilykate7aOriginal Author

COMPANY

BUSINESS SERVICES

GET HELP

CONNECT WITH US

lilykate7a
Original Author

lilykate7a
Original Author

lilykate7a
Original Author

lilykate7a
Original Author