Thursday, January 13, 2011

Blooming Friday ~ Patterns


Daylilies. Like roses, iris, and dahlias, it's one of those plants that gardeners become obsessed with. My association with daylilies began innocently enough, and in a most commonplace way ~ I started out with orange daylilies (Hemerocallis fulva). In spite of being sterile orange daylilies have naturalized here in the U.S. and it's common to see them growing in roadside ditches, thus the common name ditch lily.

Then came the double orange day lily 'Kwanso', rescued from beside my parents' pond where another gardener had dug them up and thrown them out. Later I ordered a couple of named daylilies after seeing pictures online. I started with 'Ah Youth' and 'Buttered Popcorn'. Daylily beauties acquired in trades made their way into the garden, and more from daylily farms. I'm a cheapskate so I haven't paid more than $15 for one. Which doesn't mean I don't salivate over some of the $100 ones. :)

Daylilies have many different color patterns, some simple, some very complex. A self daylily has petals and sepals (the smaller "petals") that are the same color, although the throat is often yellow.


Blend of pink and yellow



Midribs can be a contrasting color, often white or pale yellow.



'Bleu Celeste' is bitone with white midribs. A reverse bitone has light petals and dark sepals.


'Lion in Winter'


Banding is contrast coloring above the throat that occurs only on the petals and not on the sepals.





A daylily is referred to as having a halo if the banding
or eyezone is faint or narrow. 'Ah Youth' has a haloed band.



Contrasting color above the throat is called an eye if it
occurs on both petals and sepals, as with 'Moonlight Masquerade'.



'Lemon Berry Frost' has light washy marks on the sepals which don't
show very well in this picture and is considered to have an eyemark.


A watermark is an eye that's often lighter than the flower's base color, and looks like watercolor paint blooming on wet paper.


'Avant Garde' x 'Maxfield Parrish'


Pencilled eyemark ~ 'Siloam David Kirchhoff'


Colorwashed with faint watermark ~ 'Smuggler's Gold'


A picotee daylily has darker or lighter fluting at the edges of the petals.


'Indian Giver'


'Fairy Tale Pink' a daylily with diamond dusting.


See the sparkle?

I hope you have enjoyed seeing some summer flowers again in the depths of winter.

Happy Friday and thank you to Katarina at roses and stuff for hosting Blooming Friday.


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  2. Beautiful lilys! Thank You for posting!
    Have a nice weekend!

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  3. Lovely photos!
    I am also very fond of daylilies.
    Birgitta

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  4. You have an impressive and beautiful daylily collection - your photos are beautiful and make me miss my own daylilies. They really are the best: reliable, beautiful and undemanding!

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  5. Oh, my goodness! So many daylilies and so many different colours and patterna! Wonderful!
    Thank you for showing,
    Charlotta

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  6. What a collection of lilies you have! Lovely colors, lovely patterns and lovely photos.
    Have a nice weekend, Eva Linnea

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  7. Oh my god, you wake up my `wannahavedaylilys´ desire. I will come back and look again...and again.
    Have a good weekend
    Lisa/Lisas trädgård

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  8. Oh my gosh, I'd love to have everyone of those growing in my gardens. What a wonderful treat you have seeing them every year. Your photos are exquisite.

    FlowerLady

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  9. Really lovely pictures of your daylilies. Have a nice weekend/Gela

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  10. Lovely lilies! What an incredible range of colours!

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  11. I don´t have any words to say.
    So many fantastic daylilies you have.Amazing, beautiful, colourful, breathtaking, you name it.

    Have a nice weekend
    Gunilla

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  12. Wow! You have an amazing collection of daylilies! I have long been obsessed with these, though I'm beginning to think Florida is not the best venue for these lovely creatures. I will forge on, however, though I might never have the collection I once had back in Zone 7. I really enjoyed this post, with all the proper daylily terminology explained in full. Thanks!

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  13. Ohhh lovely photos!
    Have a nice weekend! / Irene

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  14. so many beautiful blooms! and I loved the macro photos

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  15. Cea mai frumoasa postare de azi.Sa ai o zi buna!

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  16. so many different daylillis there are :) /Suss

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  17. I just love daylilies! They are so easy to grow here. I have never seen so many different varieties before. Each and every one is beautiful! Carla

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  18. I am not sure your garden could be any prettier with those expensive 100 dollar varieties. Your have an amazing collection of daylilies already! I also took a look at the earlier post. The drifts of azaleas and bearded irises are breathtaking! Have a great weekend. Jennifer

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  19. Your knowledge has really grown as your collection has grown. What a glorious bunch of blooms.

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  20. I do love your collection of Dayliles! All those different patterns and shades...wonderful!

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  21. I see you soon moved on from having one or two varieties :-)
    I had not previously considered how the markings differed between flowers so your post was interesting. Now I'm thinking how nice they are - perhaps I shouldn't go there!

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  22. Oh, I can't wait for the daylilies to bloom?

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  23. Oh, sweet bay! Those are so beautiful! You inspire me to grow more Daylilies! :) Thank you!

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  24. Those pink and yellow combos are just scrumptious! I don't have a lot of Day Lilies in my gardens but you're making a strong case for me to invest in some! ;)

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  25. What a thorough and informative study of daylilies.... I love that you know their names and the details of what makes each special. The photos are gorgeous! I love daylily flowers in close up pictures, but not the plant itself in my garden.

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  26. What LindaLunda said and more~gail

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  27. You are certainly a person who knows lilies! It's always a pleasure to come to your blog and see these beauties!

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  28. You know how much I love daylilies. Great information you've posted, and it's so nice to look at beautiful flowers when the cold winds blow.~~Dee

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  29. What a GREAT tutorial on daylilies! I didn't know hardly ANY of that! Thank you so much! And of course, the daylilies are gorgeous.

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  30. Congratulations. You have successfully ignited my daylily lust! I've got three pink varieties and one red but no purples. Gimme, gimme!! I'll be on the lookout this spring.

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  31. What a treat to see all these beauties on this gray and rainy day, Sweetbay! I'm one of those who has become obsessed with daylilies, too. I started with the ordinary Stellas, but I've added more cultivars every year. I still have much to learn about the different types, so this was very helpful. It's hard to pick a favorite out of all of these lovelies!

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  32. Brava! Sweetbay you have a wonderful collection! What a parade and so lovely to see while it is sooo cold outside! Have a great week.

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  33. Whoa, SB! That is a crazy number of daylilies. I don't even have one in my garden let alone any of the gorgeous varieties you have shared. I'm never sure (and even less sure now after seeing all yours) why I never caught the fever for them?
    I was pretty sweet to see all these blooms in the middle of January.

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  34. I very much enjoyed this taste of summer. Daylilies are fascinating, with their many colors. You certainly have a lot of variations to show off!

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