{"id":332,"date":"2008-07-26T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2008-07-26T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T13:30:00","slug":"saturday-morning-in-the-daylilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning in the Daylilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s actually not that easy to get good shots of daylilies.  When the morning light is still good, they aren&#8217;t all fully open yet.  By the time they are fully open, the light is often too bright.  And waiting for the good evening light isn&#8217;t a good idea either because by then a lot of the blooms have bleached out some and they are all covered with pollen and bug spots.  These shots were all taken this morning around 7:45AM.  With the exception of cropping and a very slight sharpening, they are straight out of the camera.    <\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I ordered a group of unnamed seedlings from a hybridizer who was selling his excess plants on eBay.  This yellow is one of my favorites from that group.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnUOF6X4I\/AAAAAAAACGY\/LyKz6Asdb-g\/s1600-h\/unamed_yellow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnUOF6X4I\/AAAAAAAACGY\/LyKz6Asdb-g\/unamed_yellow.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227315020827352962\" \/><\/a>I had wanted this one &#8211; Tom Wise &#8211; ever since I first saw it online.  Last year, right before she had Anna, Ellyn and I visited a daylily selling garden down near where they lived in Virginia and I picked this up along with an obscene number of others.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsp5s3jboI\/AAAAAAAACGg\/JO76-vjag78\/s1600-h\/tom_wise.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsp5s3jboI\/AAAAAAAACGg\/JO76-vjag78\/tom_wise.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227317863767043714\" \/><\/a>For a person who detests spiders, my attraction to spider form daylilies is not something I can explain.  This is Spider Miracle.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsp5vvze7I\/AAAAAAAACGo\/1oOLiPnSTbA\/s1600-h\/spider_miracle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsp5vvze7I\/AAAAAAAACGo\/1oOLiPnSTbA\/spider_miracle.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227317864539847602\" \/><\/a>This is supposed to be Tuscawilla Tigress, but it doesn&#8217;t really look like the photos I have seen of this cultivar.  It is pretty either way.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsp58Pp6eI\/AAAAAAAACGw\/-RPwAXYQbPs\/s1600-h\/tuscawilla_tigress.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsp58Pp6eI\/AAAAAAAACGw\/-RPwAXYQbPs\/tuscawilla_tigress.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227317867894663650\" \/><\/a>Hot Town &#8211; I go this from a couple who live not far from me.  Their obsession with daylilies has necessitated the selling off of their excess fans.  Visting them is like stepping into daylily heaven &#8211; they walk around their gardens with you, naming every single plant from memory and scribbling down the names of the ones you want.  At the end, they present you with a total that is about a third to a half of what you would pay anywhere else and in mid-August they call you to come and pick up your prizes.  I have a nearly overwhelming urge to kiss these two people, but I restrain myself because I want to be able to go back next year.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnT5uqviI\/AAAAAAAACF4\/pauCOnYnWzg\/s1600-h\/hot_town.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnT5uqviI\/AAAAAAAACF4\/pauCOnYnWzg\/hot_town.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227315015361150498\" \/><\/a>This is Monster which I got from the same folks.  A lot of people are not crazy about the form of this one &#8211; it grows too open and the color is blotchy.  The blotchy color is one of the reasons I love it &#8211; every bloom has different water-color like patterns.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnT11mKXI\/AAAAAAAACGA\/m0d0c_0OT2c\/s1600-h\/monster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnT11mKXI\/AAAAAAAACGA\/m0d0c_0OT2c\/monster.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227315014316468594\" \/><\/a>Sammy Russell &#8211; an older cultivar.  It multiplies rather rapidly which means I have lots of them.  The bees seem to really like it &#8211; there are always crowds of them working the flowers.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnT831kxI\/AAAAAAAACGI\/uUKgtYN3gSE\/s1600-h\/sammy_russell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnT831kxI\/AAAAAAAACGI\/uUKgtYN3gSE\/sammy_russell.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227315016204915474\" \/><\/a>Somebrero Way &#8211; one of the first daylilies I ever bought.  It has a very long bloom time and in a good year even gives me a second flush of flowers in later September.<a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnULmPCWI\/AAAAAAAACGQ\/jUx7-eZtA18\/s1600-h\/sombrero_way.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/SIsnULmPCWI\/AAAAAAAACGQ\/jUx7-eZtA18\/sombrero_way.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227315020157618530\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a great Saturday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s actually not that easy to get good shots of daylilies. When the morning light is still good, they aren&#8217;t all fully open yet. By the time they are fully open, the light is often too bright. 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