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Dollythehun · #**171** 07-16-2020, 11:00 AM

WW, you were in the business. You know that some people are VERY persnickety about labels! Having been in the nursery business and around suppliers, dealers, and growers, they have to be persnickety. (Ray is even persnickety about labeling orchids correctly, WW you are persnickety about punctuation.)

I can remember a customer standing in my parking lot screaming at me over a cultivar of Pennisetum alopecuroides (was it 'Moudry' or...?)The Terra Verde club was visiting his garden and he wanted everything perfect. I had been calling a hosta 'Savannah' for years. Last week I dug up the tag when I divided the plant. It read 'Moonlight Sonata.'

So, I get that you are trying to be funny, however, labels do matter. To some more than others. Since my daylilies came from a grower friend, I can pretty much tell you what they are. It doesn't matter to me much anymore but, if I wanted to buy a particular one, it would.

DirtyCoconuts · #**172** 07-16-2020, 11:48 AM

i was just trying to be hilarious

i also know that WW just DGAF about that and so i saw the joke opening and went for it.

I am the guy with tags on the orchids i mount in trees lol

estación seca · #**173** 07-16-2020, 12:19 PM

After 35 years of on and off trying, I got a day lily to survive long enough to flower early this summer. I have to admit I don't much like the modern frilly polyploid hybrids that fall over without staking. I like the narrower-flowered oranges or yellows.

The flower buds and just-opened flowers are tasty dipped in egg batter, and fried. Like squash blossoms.

Dollythehun · #**174** 07-16-2020, 12:48 PM

I think it's your climate. Mine are always upright. I don't like picking off the mush mummies every day. But I have some darned pretty ones!

WaterWitchin · #**175** 07-16-2020, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dollythehun

WW, you were in the business. You know that some people are VERY persnickety about labels! Having been in the nursery business and around suppliers, dealers, and growers, they have to be persnickety. (Ray is even persnickety about labeling orchids correctly, WW you are persnickety about punctuation.)

I can remember a customer standing in my parking lot screaming at me over a cultivar of Pennisetum alopecuroides (was it 'Moudry' or...?)The Terra Verde club was visiting his garden and he wanted everything perfect. I had been calling a hosta 'Savannah' for years. Last week I dug up the tag when I divided the plant. It read 'Moonlight Sonata.'

So, I get that you are trying to be funny, however, labels do matter. To some more than others. Since my daylilies came from a grower friend, I can pretty much tell you what they are. It doesn't matter to me much anymore but, if I wanted to buy a particular one, it would.

Most folks who get into water gardens in my neck of the woods aren't that into labels. I knew more than was necessary most of the time, and made a lot of eyes glaze over.

And labels don't matter much to me... once I have it. Not that I wouldn't purchase anyway if I liked the plant. Now if I don't have the plant and want something specific, yes... it matters. I count on whoever is selling to know what it is if I ask for something specific. There's a local nursery here in town that's horribly bad about it... mislabels everywhere. Obviously they don't get business from me very often.

Actually, I do know the names of most of those daylilies. Not worth it unless someone wants to know. And I wasn't trying to be funny... I WAS funny. Just not so much to you.

Me? Persnickety about punctuation? Okay, don't forget grammar, dangling participles, prepositions at end of sentences, and the WORST... spelling!

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ES... I think it must be your climate as well. None of my daylilies are droopy. Speaking of which, I need to put up another, better, picture of one. You would like it, and it's an interesting story....

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Okay, first is one I forgot to put up. It's my second favorite of all of them. It's called Baja..

My very favorite is a dark purple yellow throat shown above (the big one, not little one. It's Bela Lugosi... and I'm not sure if it's my favorite because of the color or the name. Possibly both.

Then here's the one I was saying had an interesting story....

I got it a loooong time ago from someone who was trying to hybridize Stella d'Oro to make different colors with the same characteristics of Stella. Not a clue as to what was put with it. It came to me with a lab rat name like S2D1224X. It doesn't look the same as it originally did. More of the dark orange, very little yellow, and the shape of the petals got longer and skinnier. It didn't pan out for what this guy was looking for. Wanted shorter compact plant, more yellow.

This is THE most prolific daylily I've ever had. And past hardy. It's ridiculous. And tons of blooms... once it gets going (a little late to the party each year) it doesn't stop until long after everything else is long gone. I've divided, divided, and divided it. It's my third favorite daylily. I sometimes wonder if it was crossed with ditch lilies. If nothing else, it's a one-of-a-kind.

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And speaking of ditch lilies. Here's a sport of some sort of ditch lilies. I have a row of ditch lilies along front driveway... about 10' wide and 30-40' long. About thirty years ago I started seeing these guys pop up in them. Dug them up, replanted elsewhere. They stay true to this form... kind of a double ditch lily. Plants just never cease to amaze me...

farley101 · #**176** 07-18-2020, 02:28 AM

This is a fun thread, I don't have a lot of room for flowers in my yard but I did inherit a few beds that I have tried to keep up when I purchased the house.

A few day lillies, some Asiatic lillies, peonies, and hostas were in place when I moved in.

I have added some native species in the last few years. Coneflowers, milkweed, bee balm, sneezeweed, and hyssop have been fun additions. These all attract tons of bees and other pollinators, it's been pretty dry this year so they aren't blooming as well as in the past. Ideally I'd ditch the non-natives and replace them but I have a hard time digging up an established plant to just throw it away.

Effluvium · #**177** 07-21-2020, 10:49 AM

Lily would be my favorite flower if orchid didn't exist. Though I love them both.

JScott · #**178** 07-21-2020, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Effluvium

Lily would be my favorite flower if orchid didn't exist. Though I love them both.

WW, I'm sure you'll be glad to know that I have quite a few daylilies on order to ship this fall at the appropriate planting time. I've always loved them, but never got into growing them, but then I see all the really fine ones you have, and I decided it was time to give it a shot. I'll show you pictures next summer when they bloom. Off hand I don't remember any of the names of the varieties, although I could check my invoice and find out, but that sounds like a lot of work right now lol

Dollythehun · #**179** 07-21-2020, 12:20 PM

You know reading this I think I've been spoiled through the years. I've been great friends with daylily hybridizers and growers, toured their fields, known people famous in the business. And I just take all this for granted. It's actually pleasant to hear the delight that you guys get out of what I've come to think of as fairly commonplace. No snobbery intended. There's just an irony here.

WaterWitchin · #**180** 07-21-2020, 12:58 PM

There are LOTS of things in this world we presume are commonplace which really aren't to others. That's why it's so fun to share. Ya never know what you consider to be common will be someone else's golden child.

Which reminds me Dolly... gotta go get some pictures of my ferns!

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Who likes cleome? A poor picture, due to wind, but you get the drift...

And I pulled the wrong lotus from the pond this spring to put into my 100 gallon barrel in the flower bed. It was SUPPOSED to be one of the miniatures. Instead it's Lavendar Lady. First shot, me standing next to it attempting a picture... it's about 7' tall.

Here it is with me bending it over almost in half to get a top view...

And these are some water lilies called Colorado, which are waaaaay down there at the surface of the barrel...

Not one of my favorites, but it's one of the favorites of most folks around here, as it's a very easy and prolific bloomer.

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PS And yes, Dolly, that lotus... this is one of those times I should have looked at the label before moving. Hard to tell what it is when you're looking at dry stems and mud in the spring.