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Well, the August '11 object of my affection has bloomed. It's not totally what I expected. Almost all of the online photos I found looked as if the main color was lavenderish, with a golden yellow eye. Instead of lavender, mine looks a deep rosy gold (if that's even possible, lol).

The one thing that worries me... The foliage looks B-A-D. I'm wondering if the mulch my landscape guy applied in Feb. held too much moisture in and damaged the tubers. I suspect it's too late now to remedy that, if it's true.

thanks for posting, nettiejay. its beautiful. i particularly love that color. could you wet yours and dig it up, shaking of most soil off and replant it without the mulch to save it?

i just took a chance and transplanted two a couple days ago. Mr Lucky was getting practically no sun, so i moved the small Calling All Roses, that was about to bloom, to make room for Mr Lucky in its spot. and Calling is now blooming. so it didn't seem to hurt either one to move them.

i didn't get Starburst. my copy of what set us both on this quest last August is Dixie Chick. it is the largest of my nine lilies and the only one not showing promise of flowers. yet. but its a robust looking plant.

my lilies are not huge this first year, but all except Dixie Chick have flowers coming up. i can't wait to see the various colors.

Nettiejay - that is a beautiful daylily, even if it's not what you thought it would be. I love the color..I'd call it peachy with a yellow throat...and the ruffles around the petals are adorable.


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Wow Very Special & love those ruffles! Isn't nature utterly amazing?!

That is beautiful!

So pretty! Love the rufflerd edges.

I love that color. The ruffles are just extra!

WOW that is really pretty. Love the ruffled edges.

That sure is worth waiting for. How pretty!

So Purty, Nettiejay! I also love the ruffled edges.

You mentioned your foliage looking bad, and I wanted to ask you a question. I just started growing daylilies last year, putting them in my parking strip spaces out by the street. I thought daylilies were supposed to be really tough and not care about the soil all that much?

I'm having trouble with the plants sending up flower scapes with little buds on it, and then the scape just dies and the buds never develop. This has happened on 2 or 3 plants so far this year, and I don't think I will get any blooms on them at all!

The foliage also looks yellowed and dying. Any hints on what could be going on there?

Very pretty!

Thanks all. I love the ruffles, too.
I can hardly wait to see Bana's 'Dixie Chick'.

Karen, I'm no expert and can only speculate. I wonder if your lilies in the street border could be feeling the effects of salt residue from winter street de-icing? Does your community do that?

They are tough plants for sure. But they don't like to be planted deep, don't like wet conditions.

I used the following site's advice for planting Starburst. It's meant for MN conditions, but I figured, close enough to MO's... LOL -
http://www.extension.umn.edu/d...iculture/DG1106.html

Lovely blooms. I've looked at both the grower's webiste (Kinnebrew) as well as the American Daylily society and I don't see a green throat in either the Spacecoast Starburst or Dixie Chick. The first year the plant is just settling in and the second year is better but it's the third year in which the buds should really be numerous and the plant should be vigorous. Sometimes it's hard to capture the color in a picture but I usually go to the American Daylily Society homepage and see their pictures as well as the description for a registered daylily. Take your leaves to a local nursery and see what they say. The yellow foliage and collapse sounds like crown and root rot. Go to the AHS website and look up daylily diseases, etc. they have a ton of information there. Hope that you can solve your issues since daylilies are usually pest free and easy to grow. They don't need a lot of extra attention.

thanks for the info, 16paws. now i know what to expect out of mine for the next 3 years. i figure i'm lucky to get any kind of flowers the first year.

Bana, love your pics keep posting. It's the busy season right now, but if you really want a particular color of daylily, may I suggest that you email the grower and tell them what you are looking for perhaps they could give you some suggestions. I have been looking for a particular shade of red and would have bought some online a dozen different times if I had not seen some of them growing locally and knew that they were not what I'm after. A grower in my daylily group takes extreme care in his online pictures but even then it's hard to capture some colors. Good luck with the daylilies, hope you solve the problem with the leaves.

16 paws... i think it was karen, aka 88hazel, who was having trouble with her leaves. so i'll pass your good luck wishes on to her. so far, knock on wood, mine seem to be ok.

i have a red one, Mr Lucky, that was a freebie with my Blue Ridge order. i'm not a big red flower fan and if its the color you like, i'll send it to you. it hasn't bloomed yet so i don't know what kind of red it will be. when it does, i'll send you a picture.

meanwhile..
http://www.mydaylilies.com/day...-a-z/m/mr-lucky-7298

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16paws, since you know about day lilies...I have a question. How often should we dig & divide? I have some that have expanded quite a bit & was wondering if I should divide...this is their 4th yr. where they are. And they have put on an absolute fantastic show this year.

Just thought of something else. How easily do day lilies cross breed? I had some small yellow ones near a maroony colored one. This year one of the yellow ones is more peachy/pale organey. It is a really pretty color but I wondered if these had crossed?

And my mail lady gave me most of mine so I have no idea what their names are. She had thrown out all of her labels several years before she gave away all the day lilies.

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Bana,

This link from the National Arboretum is a good guide to divide daylilies: www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/faqs/DaylilyDivided.html There are also lots of videos online.

I let mine go 5-6 years before I divide them. The older varieties need to be divided much sooner than the newer hybrids. Last year we dug out a large bed and replanted them because the clumps were invaded by a lot of grasses and weeds--we didn't do a good job weeding the prior year. I dug them out after they bloomed and soaked them in large empty kitty litter containers. After we got rid of the soil on the roots and pulled out the weeds, etc., we pulled apart the fans and their roots--a fan is a set of leaves. We replanted them after dividing them in the bed that we dug up and amended with lots of organic material--they look good so far this spring. Ours are just getting buds so I won't know if this helped until later this year. We didn't cut back the leaves which is recommended--we had 30-40 to replant and it took us an entire weekend to redo the bed. In my daylily group, there are a number of growers who divide every other year to increase their stock. I don't breed them but it's not that hard to do. It all depends on the variety, etc.

16.. think you meant the link for ga.karen but i will bookmark the info for when i need it. so thanks from both of us for sharing your knowledge on dividing the daylilies.

Bana, I love Mr. Lucky--it's the reason I got going with red daylilies--I used to buy just orange and corals. Then of course, both DH and I got to buying some purple and then it was red and things really got out of hand. My problem with bonus plants is Blueridge very kindly sends them out and we can't say no but my space is limited and I end up with stuff that I really didn't plan on adding to the garden. What kind of daylily are you looking for, maybe I have one that you would like.

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Thank you paws.

Nettie & Bana...sorry I highjacked! <_<

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Bana, I love Mr. Lucky--it's the reason I got going with red daylilies--I used to buy just orange and corals. Then of course, both DH and I got to buying some purple and then it was red and things really got out of hand. My problem with bonus plants is Blueridge very kindly sends them out and we can't say no but my space is limited and I end up with stuff that I really didn't plan on adding to the garden. What kind of daylily are you looking for, maybe I have one that you would like.

i'll be glad to send you mr lucky. it has two long stemmed blooms coming up so i'll wait till after it has bloomed. i've never sent plants in the mail before. i know to wrap the root ball to keep it damp, but should i trim the leaves about half way down? any advice would be appreciated. and can you pm me your address? i'll post pics when it blooms and mail it to you after that.

i can put 'coming up roses' that i moved to make room for 'mr lucky' back in its original spot. i originally had mr lucky at the end of the long row just because it was red.. but it wasn't getting hardly any sun. so i think it will be happier in your garden. i really don't have space for more lilies, but thanks for asking. this is my first experience with day lilies so every day of their growth is new to me.

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Originally posted by ga.karen:
Thank you paws.

Nettie & Bana...sorry I highjacked! <_<

I don't mind hijackers who ask pertinent questions, Karen. I learn more that way! And I have a LOT to learn...

Bana, don't worry about shipping until the fall, it will do better then. If you ship during the summer months, it's too hard on the plant. Once again, thanks, I really appreciate it. Coming up roses looks like a deep pink daylily, is that correct? I can see that you have maintained your sanity and can keep your daylilies in one area. People in my club routinely rip up lawn area for new beds and there's always room for more daylilies.

16paws.. sanity? what sanity? give me time and i'm sure i'll be right up there with the daylily-gone-amok group. after all, this is my first year and first d.l. experience. started with ONE and didn't stop till i had NINE.. just for starters. and i will take your advice to wait till the fall. don't want to jeopardize a plant you love.

i just looked at ga.karen's link to 'Smokeys Daylily Gardens' and OMG.. how come the ones i absolutely love cost so darned much? 99.95... 74.95... yikes. i'll have to work my way up to the really good ones!

ga.karen.. what hijack? i didn't notice a hijack. you are most welcome to jump right in with your 2 cents on anything i've posted on.

If you really want a particular daylily, you can always go to the daylily trader website and see what it's selling for there. Also I sometimes go to Ebay and see what's on there. In my area the daylily season is just starting. I will visit gardens in the area and take note of which ones I like. I usually talk to the owner and see what his experience has been with particular lilies and where he got them from. It's amazing how much you can learn about what works and what doesn't and which places to avoid ordering from. You can also join the American Daylily Society and get a coupon to order from various daylily growers. There's just no end to how much time and money you can spend on this addiction.

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Originally posted by ga.karen:
Just thought of something else. How easily do day lilies cross breed? I had some small yellow ones near a maroony colored one. This year one of the yellow ones is more peachy/pale organey. It is a really pretty color but I wondered if these had crossed?

16paws, I wonder if you missed Karen's question above? I'd love to know if it's possible for different varieties planted in close proximity to "morph" into something else? I'll take a stab at the answer and say no... because the cross pollination needs to produce seed, and since daylilies don't easily self-seed, wouldn't that be a highly unusual occurrence?
How's my logic?

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Originally posted by nettiejay:...How's my logic?

sounds good to me. i'll buy into your theory.

They don't morph into something else. In other words, the plant itself won't change. You would get seed which would have to fall, develop a new plant which may not have the characteristics of either parent plant.