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Great ebay deal normaly does not come my way

AMANDA STOCK — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:47:47 +0100

AHH THE JOYS OF EBAY. I bidded on an auction for "Frans Hals seedlings/fans". The seller stated two fans for a really good price. $2.00 plus free shipping. No prob...I can handle that just to add some more to the garden. AND I was planning on giving one fan to a local 4H'er so it did not matter what the outcome was. I assumed that the auction was for two 2 yo mature-er fans that were unbloomed. Much to my suprise the box came..bigger then i ever anticipated. There were two CLUMPS of year old ...

my blog

Greg Crane — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:40:20 +0100

thedaylilycrane.blogspot.com

Seeds

Curtis Noel — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:55:13 +0100

Planting some seeds today,here comes the future.

My Introduction to Daylilies Part 2

Nicholas Barth — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:55:14 +0100

By 1992 I had completed a respectable daylily display area in the new Barth Daylily Garden and begun to line out daylilies for sale in a reserve area.

I operated the new daylily garden until the fall of 2004. At that time I had some 425 different registered daylilies and a couple thousand daylily seedlings.

In October of 2004 I sold the entire daylily garden to a partnership in Dresden, Maine called Fieldview Farm which had been created to continue Barth Daylilies. A...

My Introduction to Daylilies

Nicholas Barth — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:34:52 +0100

Any Interested Person,

I first became familiar with daylilies when my late father, Reverend Dr. Joseph Barth, asked me to help him in his daylily garden in Alna, Maine. This was in the early 1970's after he had been hybridizing daylilies since 1952. He was then one of only a handful of daylily hybridizers developing tetrapolid daylilies. By 1970 his daylily garden had grown to approximately 1 1/2 acres and included hundreds of daylily seedlings, mostly tetrapolids. My...

Rebloomers

Lola Hively — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:35:01 +0100

My rebloomers are trying very hard to bloom. It's been cold and it's causing some slow blooming. I brought two of my scapes inside and put them in a vase. They bloomed out rather quickly in a warm room. Watching them bloom excites me as I look forward to next spring.

Season Winding Down....

Becki Pavlik — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:29:29 +0100

It's been an awesome season this year for growing daylilies here in my zone 5 central Ohio garden. With a better than usual amount of rainfall spread out more consistently over the growing season, we've been fortunate to avoid the typical drought-like conditions that we usually get every summer. Although I suppliment our rainfall with a deep watering at least once a week, there's something about natural rainfall that just can't be duplicated with a hose.

With ...

R A I N

michael hines — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:02:38 +0100

WE ARE FINALLY GETTING IT IN S WEST GA THANK GOD WE REALLY NEEDED IT .

B-DAY

michael hines — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:26:24 +0100

WELL I HAD TO FACE REALITY TODAY I AM NO LONGER 21 BEEN HOLDING FOR AWHILE BUT HAD TO LET GO GOT TO HEAVY SO I AM 22 NOW

going to california with an achin in my heart...la la la lah!!

Caryn Spaulding — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:07:00 +0100

Well, after much thought, I took up my Summer Hymns and moved it back to the front yard. Will have to wait for it to wake up. there just is not another place for it in my yard, except the original place I made for it. So there it will set, until it is ready to show me all of its beauty and glory. Personally, I am so excited for that day to arrive. But I will have to wait. I know my neighbor will enjoy it, as it faces his house and sets to the far side of my home. But it will be beautiful. I k...

Getting the new ones tucked in.

Caryn Spaulding — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:10:26 +0100

I had gotten my new daylilies in the mail a few days ago. So excited to have them. WAs even more enthralled to see that not only the one I had ordered was in the box...but two others made the trip from North Carolina, just for me. So anyways, I had tried placing them. Thought about it for one full day. Wondering about the size of the plants and what they would eventually grow into. Taking in to effect the enormous size of how much one plant might be, but be...

Collected Seeds

Gary Bunch — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:41:28 +0100

Today I collected seeds from my seedlings. Since these are my first seedlings that I have selected to use to hybridize, I'm excited to think about what blooms will come from these seeds that aren't crosses between other hybridizers introductions/registrations.

Also I'm already excited about the possible crosses that can be made with the pollen from first time blooming seedlings next year.

Keep your fingers crossed for me that good things are in those little seeds.<...

Tired of Stella de Oro yet?

Mike Shugart — Tue, 31 May 2011 03:38:42 +0100

Though relatively new on the daylily scene, I have noticed that the daylily du jour most of the landscapers are using is the Stella de Oro. I admit that the first time I saw the large clumps, the early blooming, and the small monkey-grass type foliage, I wanted some for my own. That was until the umpteenth yard I drove by had been landscaped using that cultivar.

I like Rococo and it's thin foliage and unusual yellow curling spider look. It would be nice to see a...

2011 Nationals

Cary Peterson — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:16:36 +0100

I thought I would write a few thoughts I had about the Nationals. I have honestly been impressed so far. After traveling all night I was welcomed with open arms. I have meet a few of our own here and have enjoyed there company.

I think the speakers are the end thing this year. Joe Goudeau was funny. I was informative and Josh Jaques shinned by showing us his great seedlings. Bill Maroyott impressed me by planting 15,000 seedlings every year.&nb...

Winter's not Over Til the Fat Lady Sings!

Becki Pavlik — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:19:15 +0100

That would be ME and I can't carry a tune..lol. How is it that one can gain 20 pounds over the course of the winter eating the very same things they eat all summer? Of course the difference is that during the summer I work my butt off (literally). Well, let me just say that I have more to work off this year.

We had some really mild, Spring-like temperatures up into the low 60's all last week which is usual for Ohio in March. Last night we had snow and temperatures back down in th...

HELP NEEDED WITH NEWLETTER QUESTIONS!

Heather Lynn (Daylily Diva) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:01:31 +0100

Hello All!
I am the region 4 HADS editior and ask our members questions each month so far it is slow to catch on ....so I thought I would pose the questions here also and see if I can get some answers for the UPDATE! SMILE!

1. What are your favorite potluck recipes?

2. What catalogs are you drooling over right now?

Thanks a bunch!
Heather

Shattered Dreams and Other Shortcomings

Rebecca Blubaugh-Brown — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:31:51 +0100

WALKING AWAY
I love daylilies, all flowers in fact and I have been a true gardener since childhood, so it is difficult (at best) when one finds their body will not allow the joys found in gardening and forces one to walk away (more limp) and allow the weeds to take over and reclaim what was once their domain to begin with.

I have had to give away all or nearly all of the seeds I was able to produce and keep with the intention of sowing for myself over the past 4 seasons (last ye...

Early Spring in Baton Rouge

Jimmy Anthony — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:56:31 +0100

Well spring has sprung here in Baton Rouge. My daylilies are growing in leaps and bounds. It has been in the 6Os and 8Os for the past three weeks. I had a rather bad infestation of aphids on my evergreen daylilies. Fortunately I caught it in time. Sprayed with insecticidal soap and they are goners. The domant varieties are up and taking off now too. My tiny seedlings that went into the ground in September survived a really harse winter for Baton Rouge...

Stephen's Daylily Blog

Stephen — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:15:56 +0100

Welcome to my Blog.

Stephen's Daylily Blog

Stephen — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:08:18 +0100

Welcome to my Blog.