Favorite Near Whites of the 2019 Season
Post your favorite near whites from this year here. The next color will be coral.
My favorite UF near white was Lillian's Thin Ice.
My favorite full form near white was Boundless Beauty.
This seedling out of Inimitable was also a favorite near white.
Debra
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signet_gw(6b)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoIs Boundless Beauty considered a white ? Mine look to have a pinkish glow.
This is Swiss Mint . Nice plant pretty flower but far too short for my liking .
Brad KY 6b
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Comments (26)Brad - That's a beautiful photo of Joan Senior! Celeste - My favorities of yours are Royal Frosting, Fortress of Solitude, and your seedling. Sherry - That clump of Sunday Gloves is so pretty! Kate - Voila Francois and Winter Romance both have such beautiful form. Margo Reed Indeed looks good too! I've been growing mine in a pot for a few years. It was the first white devoured by grubs, and it was never as tall as registered for me - perhaps because of the grub problem. Maryl - I do still have Last Snowflake, but it's down to only two fans and never increases now because grubs decimate the immature new fans. I moved it to a better position this fall and have applied BT, a bacteria lethal to both kinds of grubs I have, to it. It had better bud count this year than in a long time. I crossed it with nearly all my near white seedlings this season. It was such a pretty clump years ago when it had seven fans and I had few beetle problems. Last Snowflake Debra...See Moresignet_gw(6b)
4 years agoMargo Reed Indeed ......is really a lovely white
Lace Cookies has a pink glow too. Could it be the soil?
signet_gw(6b)
4 years agoIce Carnival an oldie but a goodie !!!!
Cool It is pretty white .
That's my 10 ...
KarenPA_6b
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThis is my second favorite color! They do really well in my garden. The blooms have the best substance compared to other colored daylilies and most blooms look good until the end of day. My favorites from everyone are:
Debra's Lillian's Thin Ice and the gorgeous seedling
Sherry's Sunday Gloves and Hemstitched
Brad's Desert Icicle
Signet's Isabelle Rose and Boundless Beauty
Some nice whites from my garden:
Arctic Lace
Great White Dove
KarenPA_6b
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoPresident Ronald Reagain is a profuse bloomer but least favorite of all the whites shown. It is not the whitest and the substance can be marred by rain.
Lillian's Ivory Tower - this is one of my best diploid white - great substance and prolific bloomer
Forsyth Summer Snow seedling
Lace Snowballs X Angel on Board seedling
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoWhite happens to be one of the colors I like the most. I had asked all of you for names of the best whites last year, but then had been hit with heaviness that put me off track for a long while. Now am enjoying seeing all these pretties again.
My favorites so far:
Debra - Lillian's Thin Ice and the seedling out of Inimitable - I like that green cast, too!
Sherry - Buzz Saw - not usually a big toothy fan, but Wow! that's gorgeous!
Brad - Viette Seedling 3 is a very white white, isn't it? Desert Icicle is my favorite though for it's cascading shape
Heather - Isabelle Rose and Margot Reed Indeed
KarenPA - Arctic Lace is certainly a knockout
I have a few, and have acquired a couple of seedlings as well from a hybridizer south of me, which I'm anxious to see next spring.
Here's Wonder of It All, looking a bit more yellow than usual:
Bonibrae Mostly Ghostly:
More in next comment.
Alex
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoWedding Band - a nice white with gold wire edge, but small and short:
The last pics are more of the Rose F Kennedy x Heavenly Angel Ice seedlings. This was the fullest, and on some blooms had a more pronounced green cast:
More to come.Alex
samhain10 - 5a
4 years agoChanged my mind - the other seedlings look so similar to this one, really; only their mama would care - lol - but here's a group shot of the whites, with more than one seedling showing. That's Crashing the Crease x Veined Variations behind them:
That's it for me.Alex
samhain10 - 5a
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lilykate7a
4 years agoLovely whites, all!! You can't beat Debra's photo of Lillian's Thin Ice with all those white flowing blooms but so many of these (Karen's seedlings!!) are so pretty. Here are a few of mine.
Porcelain Ruffles with Joan Senior in the background. (I am so very good at strategic planting of colors like planting two like colors side by side!!)
Wonder of it All
lilykate7a
4 years ago
Winter Romance-just gorgeous this year
Accentuate the Green. May be too small for me. You know I like the big ones!
lilykate7a
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
Stardust Dragon-not as white as others but what a bloomer.
Oldie but tall and more white than this picture shows.
Why I loved Stardust Dragon-just look at those buds-
celeste/NH
4 years agoDebra, I live to see your Lillian's Thin Ice photos! There are some very pretty whites on here that you all have posted. They are too numerous to mention all by name.
Here are mine:
My number one favorite white.....WHITE SATIN
followed closely by FORSYTH SUMMER SNOW (did I get this from you years ago, Karen?)
btw, I put Green Icon pollen on Forsyth Summer Snow....hoping both their green throats will come through!
LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL
celeste/NH
4 years agoContinuing on with more......
The old and very white ROYAL FROSTING
NANCY BRITZ
FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE
celeste/NH
4 years agoLet's see if Houzz lets me do my final four in one try....,
SNOWBOARDING
HEAVENLY CURLS
LUNAMARQUE MOON
celeste/NH
4 years agoSuccess! I wanted to post a couple RUNNER-UPS if I may. I didn't post WALK IN THE CLOUDS only because it borders on yellow so I never know where to put it....LOL. With the temps it can be more white, but often more yellow. But it's one of my favorites!
SWISS DIPLOMAT
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hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoWe don't grow many whites and it is not my favorite color (unless it has a contrasting eye), but I do admit that they make a nice contrast to all the hot colors in our garden.
See Me-Feel Me-Touch Me was nice this summer.
Our Lillian's Thin Ice was beautiful this year, though nothing like Debra's.
Also Known As did very well this season.
Buzz Saw was almost yellow this year.
More to come . . .hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
4 years agoHeavenly Angel Ice is a delicate beauty, but it has never done well for us.
Heavenly Snowflake is a much better performer for us.
Last Snowflake never has very many buds, but what it does have are beautiful. It is registered as a late but does not bloom late for us.
That's all for me.Nancy
sherrygirl zone5 N il
4 years ago
harold100
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoWineberry Candy. Would you folks call this antique white, or cream? It really isn't so dark, but I like to photograph them after sunset for heavier color saturation.
signet_gw(6b)
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoshive
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoOther favorites for me:
Heavenly Snow White is a true white here.
Ice Cream Emperor
Queen of Narnia
Rowena Yaeger
Karen - It's interesting that you mention Arctic Lace as being the bloom that started your addiction. Mine hasn't bloomed well for at least three years. I started digging up that garden to make seedling beds last month and discovered it was heavily infested with grubs. I guess that's been the problem with Arctic Lace in recent years.Debra
celeste/NH
4 years agoBrad left us some extra spots for pics
so I wanted to post my Desert Icicle, which is where Brad got his:) I wouldn't want to leave this one out!samhain10 - 5a
4 years ago
Nancy 6b
4 years agoNancy 6b
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoWill try to post my whites, I have Lillian's Vapor Trail and Desert Icicle, but can't find those pictures.
August Wedding is occasionally this white for me, but normally very light yellow. Good bloomer
Thought I had a clump shot of Heavenly Angel Ice that looked really good, but can't find it
Lime Frost, I would like this a lot if it were late like it is supposed to be
Margo Reed Indeed
Shelby Summer Blush
White Zone
Seedlings
this seedling is more light yellow,
shive
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sherrygirl zone5 N il