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.

Best of broken colors (striped sepals) 2024

 

Clown Pants (Steve Todd)

Clown Pants seedling (Peter Donato)

Steve Todd told me that he made the cross for Clown Pants in 2010, it bloomed the first time in 2013 and in 2015 it really started showing itself including it's teeth. Since then this look has taken off and a lot of hybridizers have introduced daylilies with this look all having Clown Pants somewhere in their parentage.  It's a fun category of daylilies and I love to feature it on the blog.  Here are more photos:

Steve Todd seedling 

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

Steve Todd seedling

And now here are some intros that have Clown Pants (Todd) in their parentages:

Laurelwoods Vintage Christmas (Angela Ridder) Photo by Bill Hurt

Yenok Kilimdzhyan seedling

Clown Line Dancing (Todd-Gilyard 2024)

Just Clowning Around (Dave Mussar)

Wow! What a great group of daylilies!  Special thanks goes to Steve Todd for taking the time to share his seedlings with me. Thanks also to all who shared their photographs with me.  All photographs are the property of each person and use without prior consent is prohibited.  Working on my other best of broken color segment and this year looks especially promising.  Should be up in a couple of weeks.  Stay tuned.  Thanks.

Daylily hybridizing for beginners

 

I put together a group of videos to help beginning daylily hybridizers and enthusiasts learn how to hybridize.  My videos are not professional and some of my terms may be incorrect, but it shows the basics of how to hybridize and then the process I follow after that.  I hope this helps folks.  Good luck.

Well, there you have it.  I hope this helps folks who are just starting out.  If you have more questions, I would recommend you joining one of the many daylily Facebook groups.  The one I enjoy the most is called Everything Daylily, but there are so many to choose from and a lot of veteran hybridizers who will happily share information.  A little disclaimer here:  This is the way that I hybridize and plant in Northeast Ohio.  Your results may vary in different parts of the country and in different climates.  This will be my last post of the season till the Fall.  Happy gardening!

My best videos of 2023

 

The summer of 2023 was a really great summer for shooting garden videos.  Above is the video I shot on July 15th, 2023.  It was definitely peak bloom and this was my favorite video from last summer. Here are some more of my favorite videos: 

PATTERNS!!! The above video really shows off my favorite patterns very well.  

And even more patterns.  Some extra earlies as well in this video shot on July 5th, 2023.

This video starts out with my future intro, Paper Cut.  Quite possibly one of the prettiest red and white striped blooms I have seen to this point.  Also some lovely intros on their best days. July 22nd, 2023.

And finally this video showcases a lot of recent introductions from across the country.  Check out my future introduction, Glass Animals in this one.  What a pattern!!!  July 23rd, 2023.

Well, the season is wrapping up pretty fast.  I might have 1 or 2 posts left before my landscaping season starts.  Stay tuned!

Daylily photographs of Patrick Guidry

Wildly Spectacular (Guy Pierce)

 

Atomic Blonde (Guy Pierce)

Every year I try and familiarize myself with all the newest daylilies being introduced. I like to see how an introduction grows in other peoples gardens.  One of my favorite resources is the website of Patrick Guidry.  Patrick resides in Abbeville, Louisiana.  He usually buys collections of all the newest intros and takes photographs of the blooms and posts them both on Facebook and on his website.  It gives me a chance to see photographs that are not photo shopped and there are no filters used before he posts them. You get to see what it will most likely look like in your garden and that makes the buying process a little easier for me.  Here are some more of Patrick's photographs of some lovely daylilies:

Certainly Green (Guy Pierce)

Silken Breeze (Guy Pierce)

Chevrons Aplenty (Guy Pierce)

White Whiskers (Guy Pierce)

 

Fortunes Heart (Jeff Salter)

Snazzy (Guy Pierce)

Tumbleweed (Guy Pierce)

Mister Green (Guy Pierce)

Daniel's Light (Guy Pierce)

Courting Darkness (Jeff Salter)

Hello Jalapeno (Guy Pierce)

Run Run Rudolph (Guy Pierce)

Triple Talents (Guy Pierce)

Lion's Claw (Guy Pierce)

Treasure of Color (Guy Pierce)

Wildflower Power (Guy Pierce)

Glowing Orbits (Guy Pierce)

Wizard's Potion (Jeff Salter)

Wizard's Potion (Jeff Salter)

Wow!  That's a wonderful collection of photographs.  All these photographs are the property of Patrick Guidry and use without prior consent is prohibited.  You can see all of Patrick Guidry's photographs by Googling Patrick Guidry daylilies and his site should come up.  Well, Spring is creeping up on us.  Hope to post another segment next month.  Thanks for stopping in.