Daylilies Anyone ?
Anyone out there grow daylilies? I'm not commercial, just an outtahand hobbiest, and have around 400 different cultivars and like to trade for different plants or sell my extras off when I clean my beds....so if anyone is interested in talking daylilies give me a buz....been raising them for over 30 yrs....
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(post #11852, reply #1 of 10)
WOW! 400......that is alot of daylilies.I sure wish I did have some to trade, my daylily collection consists of three different varieties( o.k four if you count the double orange growing over from the neighbours).I am looking alittle sad compared to you. LOL How do you keep track of them and can you see a difference in each of them? Do you have a website for them? It must look gorgeous when they are in bloom.
Where are you? zone?
(post #11852, reply #4 of 10)
Hi, yes you can definitely tell a difference in each and every one of them. Read my other post. Also pull our club website down, you'll probably enjoy looking at it as well as some of the links it has on it. I keep track of them by a bed numbering system ABC, etc and I have an inventory on the computer by alphabetically listing all my cultivars. Each fall when I clean my beds I go thru and make a new list and check to see if I've lost any and also put in the new one on computer. I sell some on ebay just to cover my expenses of new ones (to support my habit) Guess everybody collects something !!....No, I don't have a web site. They are beautiful when in peak, see photo attachment in other reply. Thanks, Hope you enjoy the photo. I enjoy collection unusual plants that will grown in the south so if anyone wants to make a trade with something get back with me and maybe we can work up a deal. Thanks,
(post #11852, reply #5 of 10)
Thanks for the picture, your yard is lovely and your system to keep track of everything is impressive. I am more of the "Gee, isn't that one pretty!" type and not much in the way of records. I will have to check out your society website though some may not apply up here in the north.
(post #11852, reply #6 of 10)
Hi Dayflower,
I enjoyed readingyour postings regarding daylilies. Your picture was wonderful to see. So impressive. I've also put your link to the daylily club in my favorites to check out at a later time.
Although I've had a few daylilies in my yard the last couple of years, I'm just really getting interested this year. When we first bought this house it came with a patch of "ditch" lilies. I don't know if that is the name used throughout the country but they are the common orange lilies that you often see along side of the road. Never a favorite plant of mine, but the last few years my interest in them has blossomed. they seem to do well in sun or shade and I've started transplanting my endless supply around my yard. I've probably been here 25 years and just started enjoying them now. Go figure!
The last few years I've enjoyed going to an open house and seminars at a Day Lily farm near here. They've acres of daylilies which I've never even bothered to look at being more interested in the other perennials they sell and the seminars. I happened to go back after the seminar this year to buy a few for my daughter since she doesn't have the time to garden but needed something. I figured daylilies would take the least amount of maintenance. Well, while traveling up and down the rows, i got bitten by the lily bug. I think I'm in love and plan on going back in another week or so to buy a few for myself. I just don't know what color to get first because they are all so wonderful. I want to redo the bed on two sides of my shed and hope to plant several there intersperced with some of my perennials.
My question to you is, I realize that they need to be planted in full sun but are there any that will take some shade?
(post #11852, reply #7 of 10)
I grow all my daylilies in part shade. They don't bloom as much as they would in full sun, but they hold their color better. Some of the better part-shade bloomers for me are Pink Lavender Appeal, Little Grapette, and Siloam Merle Kent.
Chicagoland Zone 5
Chicagoland Zone5
"Well I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused." D. McManus
(post #11852, reply #2 of 10)
I just met a 'day lily guy' who spoke at our garden club. What an interesting hobby! I purchased about 50 of his unidentified extras for a few bucks. He said I might have the next 200.00 lily in there or I might have a bunch of orange. He even gave some to my girls and told them to grow them and when they get married they will have enough to decorate their wedding someday. I will let you know if I come up with any really interesting stuff. I like a bit of garden adventure. I just popped them all into my little 8X8 veggie plot. I guess I will have to beg tomatoes off of friends this year! Are you in business and we love pictures?!
(post #11852, reply #3 of 10)
Hi Carrie, No I'm not in business, as I said I'm just an out of hand hobbiest, I guess who ought to be in business but don't want the hassel of inspectors and others telling when to work and how and what to do....I like just enjoying and playing with the daylilies. I use to be President but now just a member of the Baton Rouge Daylily Society. you might enjoy our website, www.brdaylilysoc.org it has a lot of links with a lot of information about growing daylilies and a lot of information you probably never knew you needed to know. In the deep south we have to grow everything in raised beds. We use to get a lot more rain than we have been in the past few years, weather seems to be changing....less rain than normal...we have to fight aphids allll the time and now rust. Don't have too much freezing weather so we perfer to grow the evergreen daylilies, Guess you know about there being Evergreen and Semi-Evergreen and Dormant daylilies and about there being soooooo many forms out there to choose from, doubles, small ones, big ones, with eyes, halos, tet, diployds, just gobs of stuff.....There is also a book you can purchase called Eureka if you've never bought one, with most of the cultivars listed with their descriptions, prices, & showing the hybirdizer, when he introduced it and where it may be found for sale. I attached a photo of my front yard at full peak bloom in May. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks.
(post #11852, reply #8 of 10)
Good afternoon, I just read your post about trading daylilies. I too am a collector of daylilies (no business.) I have about 250 varieties. I do trademart sometimes, and would be interested in looking at your list of tradeables! It's nice to meet a new daylily friend. I live in Oklahoma so fall is a great time for me to trade.
(post #11852, reply #9 of 10)
Hi! I just found this wonderful board this evening. I would love to buy daylillies from you. I am trying to enlarge my "flowering" area. I live in Kansas, but I do have a lot of shade. May I plant them in the shade?? Thanks for your help & advice!
Still trading daylillies? (post #11852, reply #10 of 10)
Hello! I am from Edmonton, Canada; are you still (after all these years) wanting to give away some of the daylillies you have? If yes, would you be willing to send them to Edmonton, Alberta, Canda ZONE 3?