Favorite daylily videos from the 2024 season

 

This video from July 14th, 2024 has a lot in it.  Check out Richard J. Howard (Ridder) and Paintball Party (Ridder) in this video.  Spectacular!

This year I got a drone to shoot videos and you can see how nice the quality is in the beginning of this video. 

This video shows some of my future introductions including Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark and Purple Voodoo.

Check out the daylily Paintball Party (Ridder) and my future intro The Last Airbender in the front yard.

Check out my introduction Weekend in Paris in this video.  It is the seedling with a Katydid in the bloom.

Check out some of the toothie daylilies in the above video.  WOW!

All these videos were shot in and around peak bloom, so you get to really see all of what I grow here in all it's glory.  2024 was a great season even despite some attacks by the deer on a few nights. I managed to keep them away during the important part of the season and that is what counts.  Looking forward to 2025.  This will be my last post for the season until fall.  Happy gardening. 

Favorite pictures from last season.

 

Lewis seedling out of Prophetic Voice (Emmerich)

Ann Marie Kulpa (John Kulpa)

The summer of 2024 became a battle to try and keep the deer away long enough so I could see my seedlings bloom.  There was a short stretch in the early season where one deer managed to sneak in along my neighbor's deck and snack on some daylilies for a couple nights.  Fortunately I was able to block that gap with some deer netting and the only daylilies that got eaten were some oldies.  Most everything important did bloom and I was lucky to get some nice photos as you can see.  Enjoy the picture show!

Seedling out of Venetian Pools (Pierce)

Lewis future The Last Airbender

Lewis future Snowpiercer

Lewis future Purple Voodoo

Weekend in Paris (Lewis)

Lewis seedling out of Parker Raymond (Kulpa)

Lewis future Rose A. Lewis

Lewis seedling out of James Bond (Kirchhoff)

4 of my favorite striped daylilies. Upper left, Paintball Party (Ridder), Upper right, Richard J. Howard (Ridder) Lower left Mean Streak (Lewis) and lower right, Three Stripes (Boatwright)

It was a fun season and each season is never without it's challenges.  Well, this past January was one of coldest we've had for some time.  I'm happy we are getting closer to the 2025 season.  I've made a couple nice additions in terms of daylilies that I've bought for this spring.  Can't wait to see them bloom here.  If I can keep the damn deer away.  Not sure what I will post next, but stay tuned.  

A visit with our friend, Tadeusz Kotula.

 

Siewka Eli Król (Kotula)

Tadeusz Kotula and some of his lovely seedlings

There are so many great hybridizers over in Europe.  The only way I get to see their work is on Facebook unfortunately.  One hybridizer that I have really enjoyed seeing his pictures is Tadeusz Kotula from Rybnik, Poland.  Tadeusz is 71 years old and is retired.  He has been daylily hybridizing for 15 years and his toothy program is just incredible.  Take a look at some of his intros and seedlings below:

Toruk Makto (Kotula)

Siewka (Kotula) 20-52B ((Hexenbeast x Happy Teeth ) x Dental Delight )

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Pireus -Kotula 2024

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling (Toruk Makto x Leonopteryx Rex)

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling 

Tadeusz Kotula daylily field

Tadeusz not only hybridizes for toothy daylilies, but he also hybridizes for other looks.  Here's some of his incredible seedlings below:

Tadeusz Kotula seedling 18-187B (Sweet Cotton Candy x Maravilla Golden Crown )

Tadeusz Kotula seedling 18-187B (Sweet Cotton Candy x Maravilla Golden Crown )

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula seedling

Tadeusz Kotula planting his seedlings

I would like to thank Tadeusz Kotula for allowing me to share his program.  What amazing flowers he has created in only 15 years.  I hope to do another segment on Tadeusz in the years to come. All the above pictures are the property of Tadeusz and use without prior consent is prohibited.  Thanks for stopping in.  I hope to do some more posts before the winter ends.  Stay tuned!

Best videos from the summer of 2024

The 2024 season was a season of change.  I love shooting videos of the garden all throughout the season. It gives me something to re watch during the boring, long months of winter.  The video above was probably my favorite one from 2024.  You can see I added a drone to my arsenal and it really gives you a different perspective on the garden from above.  I had to learn how to use it in a short time and it wasn't that easy for this 61 year old guy.  I like to do my "best of" series of videos and those are featured below.  Enjoy!

What a great group.  Such a pleasure to be able to capture some of the prettiest daylilies from around the country.  I hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoy making them.  I don't know what I have in store next.  I am busy working on a different blog about my family ancestry this winter.  That is a whole nother can of worms....let me tell you.  So, I will try to find something of interest for you my daylily friends in the beginning of 2025.  Happy holidays to you all. 

Best of Broken Colors for 2024

 

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Tabatha Gilyard seedling 2-22

I reached out to all my hybridizing friends for seedling photos this year and couldn't believe some of the break throughs I was seeing.  Not only that but the sheer number of seedlings that are so impressive.  Every one seemed like a future intro.  I included some new intros as well which I'm just seeing now as hybridizers are posting their 2025 intros.  This look is probably the most popular right now in daylilies. The ADS has updated it's definition of it as being variegated or broken colors.  So, I guess I have to stop calling them striped daylilies.  Anyway, I will show you below in groups some of the awesome seedlings hybridizers have shared with me. 

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Guardian of the Blood (Jeffrey Jude Vitale future intro)

Jeffrey Jude Vitale seedling

Stuart Kendig seedling 22-06

Blame it on the Throne (Stuart Kendig 2025)

Stuart Kendig seedling 

David Evick seedling 

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

David Evick seedling

Mike Holmes seedling

Mike Holmes seedling

Mike Holmes seedling

Starman (Rich Howard) Photo by Steve Todd

Rich Howard seedling

Rich Howard seedling

Rich Howard seedling

Rich Howard seedling

Rich Howard seedling 

Valentina Gripas seedling from Kherson, Ukraine

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling

Valentina Gripas seedling

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!

Valentina's Legacy (Dave Mussar 2025)

Dave Mussar seedling

Paul Van Mechelen seedling from Belgium

Lily Lost Her Pants (Yenok Kilimdzhyan)

Johan Vanheusdan seedling

Valerie Marie (Chad Bush 2025)

Unbelievable how many broken color intros and seedlings there are from all over the world.  I'm sorry to all the hybridizers who I didn't include this year.  It wasn't personal, there were so many submissions and I only had so much time.  I did my best.  Hope you enjoyed it. All the above pictures are the property of each person that submitted them and use without prior consent is prohibited.  Hope all of you enjoy your Thanksgiving whether you already celebrated it or will this coming week.  I hope to post something around Christmas next.  Busy working as usual.  Got to pay those bills.  Happy holiday season to you all.