Distinctive Daylilies

Bob Faulkner seedling. 

 

Rich Howard seedling (Greetings Earthling X Shaggy Pumpkin)

Distinctive daylilies. Daylilies that you just can't imagine existing.  I have been seeing more and more unique pictures of seedlings and introductions that are so special, they have to be shared.  Here is a quick collection of some fascinating daylilies: 

Curt Hanson cristate seedling

Mr. Cris Tate (Dan White)

When you are strange (Dan Hansen)

You'll poke your eye out (Rich Howard)

Nicole DeVito seedling

Mike Derrow seedling

Weird Science (Robert Selman) Fascinating edge!

Darrel Apps seedling 18-71 

There you go folks.  What an amazing collection of distinctive daylilies.  Folks are really pushing the envelope across the country and exploring different types of hybridizing we haven't even imagined.  I feel lucky to be close to some of the action.  Next segment will most likely be pictures of daylily gardens at peak bloom.  The blog season is winding down and Spring is cranking up.  Hope you folks are well. 

A panoply of color

Elaine Seifert's collection of blooms. Wow!

Lovely bloom display from Adrianne Round

I think the first person to show me groups of blooms together was Dan Hansen.  Dan would take a photograph of a group of blooms and ask the people on Facebook which one was their favorite?  I loved this approach because inevitably your eye would go towards a certain daylily bloom. Recently I have used this method to see which color in a group of blooms was my favorite. Also when you look across a daylily field, one finds themselves drawn in to certain colors.  For me it's yellows.  They seem to grab my attention from a distance....followed by reds in a close second. I asked my friends on Facebook to share their multi bloom pictures and was pleasantly surprised by the response. Here are some awesome photographs of collections of daylily blooms: 

Collection of blooms by Jacob Henry

Collection of blooms by Jacob Henry

Collection of blooms by Jacob Henry

Collection of blooms by Jacob Henry

Lovely peace sign from Linda Ferguson

Lovely heart shape of blooms by Rhonda Veroeven

Collection of blooms with a white background from Dan Hansen

Same collection of blooms with a black background and names from Dan Hansen

Collection of edge no eye introductions from Dan Hansen

Collection of blooms from Curt Hanson in August. What is the dominant color?

Collection of blooms from Guenole Savina

Same collection, but an overhead view from Guenole Savina

Collection of blooms from Daniel Robarts

A collection of seedlings from Darrel Apps. Cross of Beth Creveling X Sdlg. 08-65

Collection of blooms from Cory Johnson

Collection of blooms from Cory Johnson

Collection of blooms from Cory Johnson

Collection of blooms from Wayne Parsons

Collection of blooms from Clyde Grammon

Collection of blooms from Elyce Cripps

Collection of blooms from Robin Lowe

Collection of blooms from Rick Simpson

WOW!!!  That's a lot of eye candy there! Thank you so much to all the people who shared their photographs for this colorful thread. All pictures are property of each person who shared them and use without prior consent is prohibited.  Well.....how do I follow something like that up?!! That's going to be tough.  Spring is just around the corner.  Happy to see March arrive and can't wait for our first color of the season.  I'm sure everyone is planning out their garden right about now.  Not sure what is next so stop back in to see.  Thanks.