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Comments (49)Bonnie - I mailed your seeds today. When I had them weighed at the post office, the postal clerk told me that there was a bar code across the bottom - I never saw it so I don't think it was too obvious - and he said that bar code would be picked up rather than the zip code if it stayed on there so he scratched through it with something that looked like a thick black crayon. He said it did no good to cross it off with a marker - that the equipment would read right through the marker. Anyway, I am posting all this because I wonder if that is why your envelope took nearly a month to get here. I know lots of us reuse envelopes so I thought I would pass this along. If you see a bar code, cover it with a label or cover it completely by using a black crayon or china marker (postal employee said that --- I don't even know what a china marker is...LOL) I hope you like the seeds, Bonnie, and now that they are mailed, this swap is complete! Thanks to all who joined in. Jeanne...See More"Ugly" flower colors
Comments (13)There are few colours I dislike...although there are a myriad of combinations which I find appalling. Stripes - have never done much for me, particularly in highly artificial forms such as high centred hybrid tea roses - the awful, awful Simsalabim is the epitome of horror. Salpiglossis is an example of a luridly diseased looking plant - although I can just about tolerate the Kew Blue variety. Variegation is not terribly appealing to me but does depend on context. The hideous farfugium with yellow blobs on a green base is quite odious and I also really dislike pulmonarias with spotted foliage. I don't care for beige or parchment tones...and have never successfully placed the coffee coloured roses...although I do love the terracotta and russet tones. I do grow a rather bizarre delphinium which has brown/grey and slate=y blue colouration (D.requiennii) but mainly because it has a sculptural form which mitigates the odd colours. As a rule, I prefer saturated colours with minor blending - picotees always look too artificial although I grow a charming little semi-wild rose - Hebe's Lip which has the faintest tints of crimson staining the petal edges. But yep, eupatoriums have never really floated my boat but I will grow plants for other reason's than pure aesthetics. There is a particular shade of salmon pink which makes me feel slightly ill - that geranium 'Wargrave Pink' for example or a couple of the hesperanthus/schizostlis and hesperaloes - grim....See MoreFavorite Daylilies Whose Colors Are Not Easily Described
Comments (41)Samhain10 ...thanks for your comment on my seedling #7 ....It really is an odd color but if you were to see it in real life it is exactly like the picture If I were to register it though, I am not sure how exactly I could possibly describe the color . Here are 2 more images of the same seedling ( the second image not so great) but it shows how the color can be different from day to day. All different views seem to be temperature/weather dependent. ]] ...... it is not pink per se , not peach either not mauve , there are some brown tones and some greyish tones thrown in there too , not an easy plant to describe ...amazing what Mother Nature can produce ....See MoreFavorite Daylilies That Defy Color Categories for 2019
Comments (43)Hi Celeste, honestly , I like it and I am not just saying that because I feel I have to now that I have said I like the weird ones. I like it for several reasons . One, because it has such subtle coloring . Now saying that , I also like daylilies that are very intense coloring but a yard full of intense colors needs something from which to bounce off . Two the contrasting midrib, I grow several that have odd colorings . Padmasana , Momentum , Pigment of Imagination , Olive's Odd One ,Spicecake etc. . Many would say these are " butt ugly" but I don't see that . I like the difference in these .. What I find " butt ugly " ( well not really butt ugly but boring ) are the round eyed daylilies ad infinitum . So when I see something like what you posted above that has so much going on in the bloom I would rather have that than a round pink daylily with some kind of eye . The shape of the daylily in your imageadds to the appeal . I also think that sometimes these kinds of daylilies are overlooked because we all fall victim to " the latest and greatest " as hyped by hybridizers . These oddballs have subtilties that an in your face daylily just can't provide. Above Padmasan below Spicecake...See Moreelenazone6
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