Summer of 2020

Lewis seedling

                                       

Possible future, David Bowie

                                  Well, the summer of 2020 has been one of the most challenging years for daylily hybridizing that I've ever had. The deer population around here grows every year with no predators or hunting allowed, and they came after my daylilies any way they could. Fencing had to be put up but at first it wasn't high enough. They actually jumped over heights of 6 feet.  I was able to protect the front area and one side area.  It was enough to see my best seedlings and I got to see some really cool things. My patterned program continued to see improvements with a lot of the seedlings coming from my future intro, The Downward Spiral.  Here are some of those seedlings:

Fulfill Your Destiny X The Downward Spiral

Totem and Taboo(DeCaire) X The Downward Spiral

Ring Necked Pheasant(Lambertson) X The Downward Spiral

Seeing a lot of seedlings out of my introduction, Secretariat this year. It is proving to be a great parent for blue eyes.  Here are some:

Blue Breasted Bee Eater(Lambertson) X Secretariat

 

Secretariat X 42 (Townsend)

All Things to All Men(Emmerich) X Secretariat

Here a few more seedlings I consider possible futures. 

42 (Townsend) X Helicoprion (Hansen) Love this blue eye.

Future intro, Wall of Voodoo 

             

Future intro, Every Breath You Take

That's just a small sampling of some of the exciting things I got to see this Summer.  Looking forward to another blog season.  I have a few interviews lined up and some new video segments I hope to include.  Stay tuned!

Great Daylily Videos from Jacob Henry

                                           Jacob Henry from Alabama

For years I have searched You Tube for good videos of daylily gardens. I think back in 2011 I made my first video of my daylily garden using my Canon Rebel T1i camera and unfortunately it came out terrible and very unstable.  (You can actually get seasick from watching it. LOL!) Anyway, it's nice how far videos have come in such a short time.  Thankfully the quality of videos we are making on our smart phones has also improved dramatically. About 4 years ago I started taking notice of videos and photographs that were taken by my Facebook friend, Jacob Henry.  In a very short time he has put together some really awesome daylily videos, so I was hoping to share some here on the blog. Here are 5 of my favorites:

 Blue Ridge Daylily Gardens walk through 2019 Part One (Jacob Henry)

Visiting Crintonic Gardens, July 2019, Daylilies of Curt Hanson (Jacob Henry)

Ladybug Daylilies, visit 2019. The daylilies of Dan Hansen. (Jacob Henry)

Thoroughbred Daylily Gardens, Walk Through, Part One. The daylilies of John Rice. (Jacob Henry)

Visiting Floyd Cove 2019.  The daylilies of Guy and Karen Pierce. (Jacob Henry)

Jacob Henry currently has 351 subscribers, but would love to add to that total.  I would HIGHLY recommend you subscribe to his You Tube channel because I know Jacob is out there right now visiting even more daylily gardens.  To view any of the above videos, just click on the arrow.  A lot of these videos are "part one's," so do check out the "part two's" as well.  Thanks Jacob for letting me share some of your best work.  I look forward to all the great videos I know he will be introducing in the future.  This will most likely be my last daylily blog post for the season.  Going to be busy in the daylily garden, but I already have some great interviews lined up for late Fall.  Please check back and enjoy all the posts anytime. Stay SAFE everyone!  Happy Gardening!

Undefinable seedlings, part 2

       Rich Howard Undefinable seedling. Incredible striping complete with dots!

                      Bill Waldrop Undefinable seedling 8-708. Fantastic Bill!!!!

                  Since my segment on seedlings from the daylily Undefinable were posted last September, there has been a lot of new seedlings that have bloomed, and it just seemed to make sense to do a second segment with pictures of those.  Let's start off with my friend, Rich Howard's seedlings which are really breaking some new ground:

                                    Rich Howard Undefinable seedling

          Rich Howard seedling (Explosion in the Paint Factory X Undefinable)

                                    Rich Howard Undefinable seedling

                                   Rich Howard Undefinable seedling

                                     Rich Howard Undefinable seedling

                         Rich Howard Undefinable seedling. Great work Rich!

           Rich Howard Undefinable seedling 19-7.  Very cool breakthrough here.

                                    The Undefinable Kid (Nicole DeVito)

                    Blame it on the Rain (Harris 2019) Photo by Peter Donato

                                    Michael Holmes Undefinable seedling

                                      Dave Mussar Undefinable seedling

                            Dave Mussar seedling (June Mist X Undefinable)

Such a wonderful collection of seedlings and introductions.  All photos are the property of each person who shared them and use without prior consent is prohibited.  Hope you enjoyed that follow up segment.  Well, April was a busy month with the start of my 33rd year of landscaping.  It was one of the coldest months on record for the state of Ohio.  May is here and I'm hoping the temps start to kick into gear and warm up.  I hope to do one more segment before I take a break for the daylily hybridizing season, so stay tuned. Thanks for stopping in.

Beautiful Daylily Garden photos

Theresa Roth's daylily garden in Morton, Illinois

                    Theresa Roth's daylily garden in Morton, Illinois. Just lovely.

It's been a very difficult time for all of us.  I'm really at a loss of words as to what to say.  I just hope that these photos brighten your day.  I pray that the powers that be find a cure or vaccine soon. Here's a couple more:

                    Darrel App's Woodside Nursery. Awesome amount of bloom!

                                      Darrel App's Woodside Nursery

                                    Garden photo by Loretta Pezold

                       Garden photo by David Harrell of Knoxville, Tennessee

 Katherine Carter (Robert Selman) Photo by Jacob Henry at Blueridge Gardens

I thought it would nice to include some daffodil and narcissus photos from PHS daffodils:

                                                         42nd Street

                                                        42nd Street

                                                    Cherry Creme

                                                    Cherry Creme

                                                          Vega

                                                     Vulcan Court

Those are some lovely pictures.  All of the daffodil and narcissus pictures are the property of PHS daffodil and use without prior consent is prohibited.  If you would like to see the PHS daffodil website, log on to www.phsdaffodil.com. Jason Delaney will be happy to help you.  Thanks to all my friends who shared their photos above.  Not sure what is going to be next.  Stay tuned. 

Patterned Daylilies

         
                                                Paul K. Lewis seedling

                                             Paul K. Lewis seedling

After having a really lousy Spring, I didn't think I would see much in the way of new patterned daylily seedlings bloom.  Boy was I wrong.  Had a good hand full that I was really blown away with.  The patterns in the eye continue to evolve and you really never know what to expect next.  Such was the case with a lot of the seedlings I have seen on Facebook.  Things are really changing quickly.  Here are some more:

                                     Dennis Christman Seedling T-18-33

                                     Dennis Christman Seedling T-18-21

                            Janet Carol (Di DeCaire) Photo by Paul K. Lewis
                             

            Impact Zone (Jamie Gossard) This one really impressed me this year.

                        Impact Zone (Jamie Gossard) Photo by Paul K. Lewis

                    Small World Wild and Wonderful (Michael Miller 2020 intro)

                     Small World Wild and Wonderful (Michael Miller 2020 intro)

                                              Chris Furlow seedling

                     Charlotte's Desire (Guy Pierce) Photo by Paul K. Lewis

                    Patterned for Success (Guy Pierce) Photo by Chris Furlow

                     Whole Lotta Ripples (Guy Pierce) Photo by Mike Derrow

                                       Paul Van Mechelen seedling

                 Papa Pattern (Eric Simpson 2020 intro) Photo by Jacob Henry

                                            Paul K. Lewis seedling

                                 Paul K. Lewis future, "Batman Begins"

Well, that is a collection anyone would enjoy in their garden.  Spring is creeping up on us and I can't wait to get outside and get my hands in the dirt again.  Hoping my next segment has some of Curt Hanson's new intros and possibly a video of his garden.  Stay tuned.