Favorite Yellows of the 2019 Season
Post your top 10 favorite yellows of the season here. The next color will be near white.
These are my top two favorites.
Empire of Desire
Mystic Maize
Debra
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sherrygirl zone5 N il
4 years ago
hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
4 years agoWell, I got carried away and tried to post three at one time and lost it. I'll do it right this time.
Tidewater Elf was another gift that I probably wouldn't have chosen for myself. It has earned a permanent place here though. It is hardy and vigorous with tall scapes and lots of buds. The clump of it is overshadowing all the daylilies around it (and we have already taken part off).
Richard Norris considers Sunshine on My Shoulder as one of his best tetraploid intros. Ours has done well, but could probably do better if we moved it to a better location. Where it is there is too much competition from tree roots and not as much sun as it would like.
More to come . . .
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4 years agoThese last two are not my favorites but I thought I would post them because they are oldies. Bob and I have fundamental differences in the way we approach hybridization. Bob likes to see out old daylilies and I gravitate to the newer ones. I say that he is trying to reinvent the wheel and I am trying to improve the wheel. These are two oldies he picked.
Lahaina is a Whatley introduction. Bob likes to collect Whatley intros, but this one will be sold off next spring in the interest of downsizing the garden.
Yuma is one of the parents of Forestlake Ragamuffin. I personally don't think it is very pretty. I am not a fan of the rusty tones overlaying the yellow. The shape of the flower is also sort of erratic. This one will stay in the garden, though. It is a late bloomer, but unfortunately has not proven to be very fertile.
That's all for me.Nancy
celeste/NH
4 years agoYou all have some very nice yellows! Yellow is the color I have the least of because I am selective about yellows. I do like them.....but find that so many plain yellows look similar. I didn't include my patterned or eyed yellows, just the solid yellows. There's nothing like a good yellow placed strategically in the garden. They just shine!
My favorite yellow of all.....PLANET CLAIRE
She blooms so well, is so robust, and blooms are HUGE and have a substance like plastic....another shot of her:
My second favorite yellow, a very soft pale yellow: SIMPLICITY IN MOTION
celeste/NH
4 years agoNow on to the other yellows I love....
WIND SONG
This golden oldie is always on my favorite list because of the fragrance, which is soft and sweet; reminds me of lily of the valley. I always take some blooms inside to enjoy for that reason. An old cultivar but one I will always grow.
SILOAM HAROLD FLICKINGER
Such a happy yellow!
BANANA CREAM BEAUTYVery large and very soft, pale coloring
CHEDDAR CHEESE
In your face bright yellow/gold that will wake your eyes up! Extremely vigorous, amazing bloomer
celeste/NH
4 years agoYELLOW MONKEY
Not everyone enjoys the spiders and UF's like I do but this one shines and is wonderful to grow
I hesitate to list a daylily that no one else has access to but this is definitely one of my favorite yellows. It's a un-registered seedling from Steve Moldovan which Carl Harmon selected out of the field. No name but gorgeous, amazing substance, blooms forever.
MICOAnother old fashioned cultivar that screams at you from across the garden. Huge!
signet_gw(6b)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoceleste/NH
4 years agoMy last one of my top 10 is another of the oldies (seems like most of the yellows I grow are oldies). She doesn't get much press but she is a working girl in the garden. It seems she blooms non-stop forever.
KECIA
Brad KY 6b
4 years agoI also don't have many yellows, not a favorite. Of the ones above I have Ciel D'or which for me is a blooming machine, and Sears Tower which is also a great bloomer.
Celeste, I like that Moldovan seedling. Very pretty. I also like Wind Song and Planet Claire for their shape and color.
My top two: Siloam Amazing Grace and Spider Miracle. I like lighter shades of yellow with green.
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Claws
more to come....
Brad KY 6b
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoNoid in front and Sun King
Hyperion has such a great scent. It is also my oldest daughter's favorite.
I have a few others but they are not favorites. I have them to have a mix of flowers.I also have Yellow Monkey which I didn't really get to see this year. I am expecting to like it!
I've only seen a few yellows I like enough to want them for myself that I don't have. I recall 2 names, Lean Green Fragrance Machine, and Siloam Green Stripe.
Brad
KarenPA_6b
4 years agoKarenPA_6b
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoHere are some of my favorite yellows from my garden.
Jolly Good Yellow
Lillian's Woman's Touch
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoYellow is not one of the colors I go out of my way for either, but I can't help but be wowed by some I see.
Debra - I love Mystic Maize, shape and shade
Heather - Heavenly Dancing Fairies is great, and an apropos name!
Sherry - I've admired Stone Palace Divine before when seen posted here - what a beauty
Nancy - Boxcar Lifestyle as well as Tidewater Elf both have the shape with which I am really enamored
Celeste - and there's Planet Claire again - love it! And Banana Cream Beauty and the Moldovan seedling are both gorgeous
Brad - both of those top two are seriously beautiful, but if I had to choose just one it would be the Spider Miracle because of its shape.
Karen - Lillian's Woman's Touch is special with that lighter edge, and once again the UF shape I love.
I don't have but a few registered yellows, I guess. This is probably the most impressive just because of the height - which was more than 6 ft. Notify Ground Crew:
The photo is a bit deceptive because Notify Ground Crew is in front of Redneck Red by a couple of feet, but even making allowances for that, you can see it is towering over the others!Another of the registered is Substantial Glow:
Will post a few seedlings next.Alex
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoForgot about Yellow Monkey, it's already been posted but here it is again:
Will post Vorlon Revelation here in the yellows - this is it's first year here, and I am in love with it's shape:
will post a second pic of it in the next round, so you can see how it varies in shape.Alex
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoAnother view of Vorlon Revelation:
Oh, and almost forgot I want to post another of lilykate's NOIDS, which is registered, but we don't know what it is - it's gorgeous, hope someone recognizes it:
More to come
Alex
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoAnother of Chad Bush's unregistered seedlings - this one has some teeth:
A seedling of My Little Tea Set x unknown:
More to come:Alex
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoThis is what the Gaudy Gaudy seedling that most resembled the pod parent looked like:
The color was wonderful, but the plant struggled to put up the scape this first year, and was stunted. This is the only good bloom I got out of it.And lastly, I'll post this seedling which is a cross between 2 of those first 25 NOID seedlings I grew on a whim back in 2015, and which started my love affair with daylilies. I expected to compost almost all of these crosses, but I ended up keeping 2 dozen to see what they would do in future. I should add that it showed some variegation to foliage:
That's it for me. Thanks for looking.
Alex
signet_gw(6b)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoKarenPA_6b
4 years agoceleste/NH
4 years agoThank you to all of you who appreciate my Moldovan unregistered seedling. I wish you all could see it in person because it's even prettier than you think. It has a lot of diamond-dusting and almost sparkles in the sunlight, which I cannot capture. Not to mention it has amazing plastic-like substance with a bubbly edge that doesn't wilt in the heat. I wanted to post another photo of it. It bloomed the LONGEST of all my daylilies this year, starting in early July and lasted until the end of August. I didn't use it for hybridizing but I noticed every scape was covered in bee pods so I know she's fertile!
lilykate7a
4 years agoMaryl, please get your "mother board" on your computer fixed soon so you can join me as a yellow loving daylily cohort! I do love this color. I have lots and lots of yellows because they just make me happy and I have room for them! Here are a few.
Kate's Smile-OK, not really a registered lily but just my garden name for it. I am sure most of you knew this would be my favorite yellow! This clump is one I separated from mama clump last year and just look how it has multiplied and those buds! I hope those of you who asked for some of it have this look in your garden next year!
Patsy Carpenter-just a wonderful huge 7 inch bloom with polychrome colors-earliest yellow to bloom for me.
lilykate7a
4 years agoLost the first post so will not take any chances on the rest.
Just an intense color on this oldie. I lost this one to voles a few years ago and reordered it. It is outside my kitchen window and I missed seeing it there when it died.
Siloam Breeze-blooms late. I have Siloam Amazing Grace as well. Brad's photo of it is lovely.
hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
4 years agolilykate7a
4 years ago
Vanilla Gorilla-listed as cream with yellow throat-looks pale yellow in my garden (yea!!)
Brutus-apt name for this late blooming lily. A beacon in the garden when most are gone. Has a slight bronze overlay.
lilykate7a
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
Willa Mae Thornton-forgive the hand-put there to show the size of this one-listed as 7.5 and it met that and more this year.
Yellow Mammoth-just look at where this is growing-in the weeds with a sapling growing right up the middle of it and it still puts on a show giving 10-12 inch blooms.So many others-I, too, like Brocaded Gown, Sherry. Blonde is Beautiful, Hernando Star, Hernando Queen, My Utmost for His Highest, Imperial Lemon, Buttered Popcorn, etc. etc.!! (Did I mention I really really like the yellows?)
lilykate7a
4 years ago
harold100
4 years agoButtered Popcorn. My only yellow one. I prefer the bold reds and purples, but this is my favorite due to higher bud count and a 7 inch bloom. It also multiplies fast. I just shared 3 fans with a friend in Tennessee.
KarenPA_6b
4 years ago
Nancy 6b
4 years agoI don't have a lot of yellows, not my favorite color, but orange is my least favorite and I have more oranges than yellows. I actually think yellows and creams make other colors pop. Guess I need a few more.
Bill Norris
Cat's Cradle
Nancy 6b
4 years agoRussian EAster is not a solid yellow,
I like this one too, but I think I lost it this summer. Solar Music
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago( Tried to post this with Firefox first, forgetting that doesn't work - just mentioning in case it decides to reappear after I post with Slimjet. )
Karen - love your future intro of Green Icon X Green Mamba and it's sib! Register both - LOL!
Kate - your "Kate's Smile" is lovely! And the color on Shaman is amazing. Have checked the online photos of True Gertrude Demarest, and that's a maybe. Will perhaps know more next year.
Nancy(hoosier) - thanks for the vote of confidence on the variegated seedling - will try to post a pic showing that. It is definitely a dip. I was pleasantly surprised at some of these seedlings that came from the original small batch, because as you may remember, they were mostly from NOIDs I had in the yard, but I wanted to make crosses NOW - lol - and not wait till I had something fancy to work with. Afterall - and Bob will bear me out - the old hybridizers had to work with species and whatever early crosses they had - and look where the daylily world has come to! :)
Harold - hard to beat a 7" bloom, and the color is great on Buttered Popcorn
Nancy6b - Wow - love Russian Easter!
OK - will try to post a pic of the variegated foliage. I had taken a pic for my own records, but this doesn't show it as well as I'd like. Only the core fans appear to have it:
Alexshive
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