Some of my new daylilies for you to see

[grow_my_own]

I took some pictures yesterday the few daylilies we still have in bloom in the fields at work. Let me see if I can get them to upload here.

There are more pics, but I didn't want to overload the system.

 

[Jared77]

Impressive!

 

[Smart Red]

beautiful!

 

[grow_my_own]

I bought a Lion King daylily at work the other day because it was still blooming! Brought it home, and last night, it rebloomed during the night! I just found out that several varieties of daylilies are nocturnal. I never knew anything about daylilies until a couple of months ago, and now I'm so hooked!

 

[catjac1975]

First snow-November 2nd. Very unusual for us . It was 70 degrees a few days ago. That is also unusual. My daylilies normally bloom from the last week of June until the end of August. I seem to have about a dozen specimens that have bloomed continuously from The beginning of July until Nov.2. Quite a genetic coup.

 

[catjac1975]

 

[thistlebloom]

That's great Cat! You can give that tired old Stella d' Oro a run for her money! Those are lovely blooms, even covered in snow.

Your weather has taken a huge shift. We are cooling rapidly and last night I looked at the weather and it said a rain snow mix. Today the sun is shining so I don't know if there was actually any snow anywhere local. Kid#2 works nights and didn't say anything about it when he came in this morning. I need another dry day tomorrow so I can get all my clients deer repellent spraying done.

 

[catjac1975]

That's great Cat! You can give that tired old Stella d' Oro a run for her money! Those are lovely blooms, even covered in snow.

Your weather has taken a huge shift. We are cooling rapidly and last night I looked at the weather and it said a rain snow mix. Today the sun is shining so I don't know if there was actually any snow anywhere local. Kid#2 works nights and didn't say anything about it when he came in this morning. I need another dry day tomorrow so I can get all my clients deer repellent spraying done.

Stella d"Oro is a dirty word to a lot of daylily hybridizers. Crazy. It is a wonderful landscape plant. This red has had many color changes with the weather. It is a brilliant red with a white midrib in the heat of the summer. But the number of continuous buds is unsurpassed.
So what do you use for deer repellant? It must be successful. I do not what to write that I do not have problems with ----. Bad luck. Haha

 

[thistlebloom]

Cat, I use 3 different commercial repellent preparations.
Deer Out
Deer Stopper
& Plantskydd

They're all concentrates and last from 1 month for 1 brand to 3 months for another. Two of them are mint based and one is blood based.
They do work well, I try not to use the same ones that the golf courses use so the deer don't get so habituated to them. And I change things up seasonally to keep the deer a little off balance.

 

[Jared77]

Interesting that Stella d'Oro is such a bad word. It's tough not overly tall and has a respectable bloom time. It's not a favorite of mine but to me it's tough to hate.

It's like hating burning bushes. Sure they are everywhere and overused ESPECIALLY in commercial landscaping (so is Stella d'Oro) but they are not bad.