DAYLILY PHOTOS
ABSOLUTE TREASURE, Stamile, 1997 has always been a treasure to me. Each and every bloom is simply beautiful.
BIRDS EYE, one of my favorites as it shows that simplicity can be beautiful
This unknown daylily is growing in Siberia. To me it underscores the fact that many daylilies can grow anywhere.
ALANNA (Bilson, 2002)
one of my introductions and named for my mother. Registered in 2002; Color: bright magenta with darker eye above lime green to yellow throat - Parentage: (Custard Candy × Nile Plum)
Height 28", bloom 4.5", season M, Semi-Evergreen, Tetraploid, 21 buds, 3 branches, Bright magenta with darker eye above lime green to yellow throat.
IRISH GYPSY is one of my creations due to be registered in 2012. It is the result of a cross between BRAZILLIAN CORAL X STELLA DE ORO; identical in size to STELLA, it gives 3-4 sets of blooms in a season; a small, young clump will have 8 blooms per scape; an older mature clump will have 12 blooms per scape. No two blooms are identical; some are dark like this one; pictured late in the afternoon; most are much lighter. It sets few seed pods but its pollen is powerful on most diploid hems. I do not sell daylilies but give them to friends. When donated for a Local Club or Regional auction plant it typically auctioned at approximately $60.00 for three fans.
It will eventually be available from Jim and Peggy Jeffcoat's Singing Oakes Garden http://www.singingoakesdaylilies.com and Cindy and Ken Dye's Homeplace Gardens http://daylily.net/gardens/homeplace.
SILOAM DAVID KIRCHHOFF is one of favorite creations of Pauline Henry. It confirms that less is more – simplicity and beauty in a flower.
JACK BILSON was hybridized by John Eiseman in my honor. He said it's the most handsome I could ever hope for. To prove his point, he also created the following, which he said was too ugly:
JACK BILSON, the flower, is available from John Eiseman at http://www.safehavengardens.com
and from Jim and Peggy Jeffcoat's Singing Oakes Garden http://www.singingoakesdaylilies.com
This is an image of a field of daylilies where I enjoyed myself as a hybridizer of 400 acres of daylilies, iris and peonies in 1999 plus any assignment that needed to be accomplished. It brought back memories of my letter to Mr. Wild – circa 1950 – when I wrote and asked him questions and he was gracious enough to answer my questions. We grew no tissue cultured daylilies. It was fun to introduce Stamile, Apps, Kroll and other name hybridizers’ creations to the breeding program. After installing a 600+ display garden of daylilies, it was most educational to note that tourists that stopped to view it fell in love with older hems that one rarely if ever sees in an AHS member’s garden. Some AHS members have told me that Wild’s sells small hems. Nancy and I have never had one perish in our garden. And, I can remember allowing a young employee to have some scraps from the cutting room floor we thought were of inappropriate size to send to the customers. They normally would have been placed on the compost pile. In two years he had a fantastic daylily garden from growing the pieces of hems that we would not ship to customers. Note if you live in the south and have not had good luck in growing peonies, try the cultivar KANSAS as it does well in the south. And, if you do not want to wait until August-September to have your iris shipped to you check Wild’s website or current catalog for cultivars that are potted and can be ordered for delivery in the spring and early summer. Note there quite a few irises that are repeat blooming cultivars.
AMY LYNN (Bilson, 2004) height 24", bloom 5.5", season VLa, Rebloom, Evergreen, Diploid, Fragrant, 10 buds, 4 branches, Yellow orange blend with white halo above green throat.
LIBERAL BLOOMER (Bilson, 2004) height 24", bloom 3.75", season M, Rebloom, Semi-Evergreen, Diploid, Fragrant, 15 buds, 2 branches, Pale pink with very faint darker halo above celery green throat. (Janice Brown × On and On)
Daylily Seedling: LPF D6304 T LBB 3
10 buds per scape; about 4.5 - 5 inches in diameter. Scapes were 20" high and it is dormant.
Do blue daylilies exist? Only the imagination of a hybridizer (or in his Photoshop computer program).
