Unusual Colored Daylilies 2022

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In this category you can show colors that defy definition, color changers, polychromes and edge-no-eye daylilies. You can also include colors for which I did not post a category like brown, bronze or blue. I don't have a category for spots and streaks, so you can post them in this catch-all category.

Kentucky Lucky is a light yellow peach polychrome.

Two Sues is a bronze rose blend with soft persimmon watermark.

Debra

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hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)

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My favorites out of this bunch are Two Sues, Lilyland Fried Eggplant, Storm Shelter, and David's seedling out of Fried Eggplant.

Here are a few with odd colors from our garden.

Buckskin Tales has quite a large flower.

I really don't like the shape of Pigment of Imagination. We bought it only because of the novelty value.

I really like Pink Stripes.

This is Spots and Stripes blooming for the first time in our garden. It is the hybridizer's attempt to created spotted (not just stippled) daylilies.

Weasel Teeth is an odd orangish brown color.

We have several seedlings with brown or stipple coloration. This is Sun Bear X Wandering Werribee. We have several of these with brown coloration.

I find this color hard to describe. It is Barracuda Bay X Unknown. We know what the pollen parent is, but we don't have a name for it. It has been suggested that it is Opera Elegance. This is a vigorous plant , but it doesn't have a good bud count.

We were surprised when this one bloomed. It is Itsy Bitsy Spider X Indelible Blood or O Positive.

We have decided that we really like this seedling. It is Itsy Bitsy Spider (a great daylily) X Mary Ethel Anderson. We have many of this cross and most were terribly ugly, but we have grown to like this one. It is tall and one scape had 5 way branching and 60 buds. It is only 2 years old, but we have already moved it to the select bed.

That's all for me.

Nancy

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sherrygirl zone5 N il
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Two Sues looks good above. Mine add first blooms this season, I think it will be s keeper here.

Tall Dark Sranger is a strange color, not sure to call it rose, red or purple this is what I saw this past season.

Have seen this purpleish color in the past.

Sweet Autumn Mist is a nice polychrome.

My bee pollen daylily. I finally moved it out of the complete shade the bees picked for it….it did better this season.

Woman at the Well has peach or yellow petals…..saw this golden yellow the past season.

Storm Shelter…….I never know how to categorize this color.

Sherry
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
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Debra: I always like your Kentucky Lucky. Your clump shots of it were wonderful......Sherry: Storm Shelter is appealing as is Tall Dark Stranger. I'd put TDS in the purple category, but am not sure what to call SS (rose base with black purple eye?).......I have one that is a mystery to me. It doesn't look much like the database pictures. I called the daylily nursery in La. that had Nall daylilies and sent them a photograph of mine to confirm I hadn't been sent the wrong daylily. He said that it was the correct daylily. As the temperature climbed it lightened somewhat, but mostly looked the same:

Lilyland's Friend Eggplant - FFE:

And another picture taken a week later next to Muy Caliente as a color contrast. Still looks basically the same, just lighter. It had quite a few blooms on it, more then the small amount listed, so I was pleased with it overall:

Lilyland's Fried Eggplant picture taken in full sun a week later then the FFE above:

Maryl
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daylilybedmaker
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Here are a few of my unusul colored daylilies:

Here is a child of LILYLAND'S FRIED EGGPLANT - LIKE A SHEPHERD

another shot of LIKE A SHEPHERD

SMOKEY MOUNTAIN AUTUMN

That's all from me.

David
Brad KY 6b
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Interesting colors above. David, I usually put Smoky on the corals list but I can see how it goes here too. Shepherd is nice. Sherry, Tall Dark Stranger is very pretty. Debra, Two Sues is nice. I understand it blooms well. Maryl, I like Fried Eggplant best in the second picture.

Seedling I named Mr. Bultitude [character from a CS Lewis book] So Lovely x Priscilla's Rainbow

Agumenticus flower color varies some and typically I don't like it, though it always has a nice eye.

Do the Twist. Pretty but never quite sure what color it is.

Lily & Petals really varies. Sometimes orange. This was its last year, as it is now gone. Often didn't open well or bloom well.

Thomas Tew, I keep it for its great eye, not thrilled with petal color whatever it is.

Precious Candy is on the might leave soon list. Quite odd and hasn't done well at all.

Seedling Elegant Candy x Vintage Wine.

2 Seedlings from Spirit of the Dove x Sky Over Schuller from seeds from Celeste. Both of them are lavender, this is ?

Brad
shive
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Brad - I agree with you on that beige petal color on Thomas Tew. Mine has now gone bye bye. When I grew Precious Candy, it had bad color in cool temps but looked great when it was very hot. Mine died in a pot, which I hated, because it was such a good parent.

David - I love your photo of Smokey Mountain Autumn!

Sherry - Sweet Autumn Mist appeal to me on a lot of levels. I don't remember seeing that one before.

Maryl - Lilyland's Fried Eggplant is in the running for most unusual colors.

I've gotten rid of most of my odd colored ones and one of my color changers. My other color changer did not bloom at all this year. Here are a few more of my polychromes:

Autumn Wood

Techny Peace

Harvest Moth

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mantis__oh
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Bridge of Sighs is certainly one that doesn't fit a regular category. It has the

bean pole scape of many Hansens, with modest bud count. Will look for more.
Brad KY 6b
last year
Nancy, I like Pink Stripes the best of these.

Brad
shive
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Mantis - I like the sculpting on Bridge of Sighs. Is the petal color or the eye color unusual? The colors look pretty normal on my monitor.

Nan - Although I don't normally like brown daylilies, your stippled brown seedling is neat!

Debra
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
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Nan: Do you still grow Mighty Chestnut? That color always intrigued me and remains on my long list to this day..............Maryl
hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
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Maryl, we still grow Mighty Chestnut. Here is a photo from a couple of years ago (I didn't get a photo this year.) It always photographs more orange than brown.
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
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That's it. Thanks Nan for digging it up. I've not forgotten it...........Maryl
mantis__oh
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Bridge of Sighs has a base that is closer to beige, rather than the registered white. Its sculpted form also makes it different. Probably would have fit better in the eyed category, but there are so many there.

Tactical Deception is a smoky purplish color that can be very dark. Last year it was more interesting than this year (darker in cooler weather), but always interesting. Hard to capture the darkest coloration.

Mahogany Magic, though an evergreen, does well here. I enjoyed it a lot this summer. A bit on the short side.

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Brad KY 6b
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Mantis, I really like Tactical Deception! So pretty, nice form.

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