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This is the set of Notes for 2008. We are also providing an RSS feed for this page as a first for those interested in what we are doing this year. If interested please check the following RSS icon. 
The above allows using a Google Reader with an RSS Feed. Use the contact to set up a Google Reader. Now on with the Notes. July 28 2008 Back to the Garden after a brief trip. Here are the recent blooms. I am amazed how poor Magnificent Rainbow is, it looks like a runt in a mud puddle!
Here is Ed Brown in New Hampshire, the tall white one near the edge of the Garden! It never made it in New Jersey, here I have three 4" leaves! Same plant, same time, etc. NH is Zone 4! It was under 4" snow all winter! The plant has exploded.
July 23 2008 Yesterday we spent at Manatawny Creek Farms, a busman's holiday! These are the flowers from today. Autumn Minaret on our free range area is about 18" taller than at Manatawny, I guess it is protected, watered and fertilized. They get so long and leggy the bend and flop over. First we shown the flowers from July 21 and then today the 23rd.
These are July 23rd.
July 20 2008 New Blooms continue at the rate of 10-12 per day out of the 400 or so hybrids. It will be interesting to see how these do over time. One can lay out a planting using the first bloom dates. We do not know if this year is late across the board.
July 19 2008 It has been near 100 F today and quite humid. We had more visitors and we gave tours of the garden. What s interesting is explaining the hybridizing schemes and goals and discussing techniques.
July 18 2008 We now seem to be reaching the peak. We have almost 70% of the healthy and predictable ones in bloom. There are about 15% of our total which are just going no where, these are classics such as Ed Brown. We have had no success with the likes of Ed Brown, and perhaps that is a commentary on the awards process as much as it is a comment on the plant. I keep coming back to my Stevens plants, they are tremendous plants and get better each year. The wrath of hyper patterned plants look like weeds as compared to them. For example, we have Allegory, and it is over 5' tall and droops across two to three rows of plants. Hardly something one would have introduced. It is like a horse with a good head and tails but lacking feet!
July 17 2008 We are nearing peak at this time. This is about two weeks late. The reasons for the delay are unknown. We did have a cold winter, dry spring, and a very hot spell in early June then things went back to normal. The timing is difficult to analyze. We plan on looking into that shortly.
July 16 2008
July 15, 2008
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July 13, 2008
July 12 2008
July 11, 2008 Despite another deer invasion the sprays seem to deter them, only have less than 5% eaten. Front seems to be protected even though it is open. They seem to know it is Open House Weekend and that means feasting!
July 10, 2008 The blossoms continue. Two points of interest today. First, Allegory bloomed today for the first time. It is long, lanky, unattractive, color bleeds, and on and on. It looks like a mutant that I would have thrown away. But so much for taste. On the other side is the classic Karen Sue a great source for bi-colors. It is a weak grower but great color. I am trying to use it to cross forward. I still look at Stevens and Apps as the nest of the hybridizers for here and north. The Stevens plants are all predictable, stand out, multiply, and on and on. They are classic.
July 9, 2008
July 8, 2008
July 7, 2008
July 6, 2008 Getting more today. Finally getting some of the patterned ones. Blue Eyed Frog and Mystical Rainbow showed some blossoms. They are weak with single scapes and show poor growth. Perhas as Semi Evergreen they did not do well here. Reports from New Hampshire indicate we have great growth. There we have had mild temps and daily rain.
July 5, 2008
July 3, 2008 The hybrids are starting to come out today. The Windham series are blooming and they are attractive, but small. Perhaps it is this year as the first year. I have just seen Mystical Rainbow and unfortunately it looks like a tie dyed shirt. The colors are washed out and the flower has poor structure. This is the first year so perhaps it may improve. I am using Windham for some crossed it is a 4N.
July 2, 2008 We have started seeing the hybrids come out. We have ten new ones today but when looking at prior years they are 7-14 days latter than before. Lots of buds but very few flowers. We sprayed five times yesterday and we reinforced the deer fence, looks like we are holding. Saw a small coyote type animal, long snout, very bushy tail across the street this AM, hopefully we get more, they track down the young deer! Now for today.
29 June 2008
28 June 2008 The season seems to be beginning. The following are the blooms to date. We are just beginning to see them come out, despite the fact that it has been quite warm the blooms are a week later than last year. The following are some of the early blooms:
9 June 2008 The first Stout hybrid bloomed today. It was Buckeye. We obtained these from Manatawny Creek Farm and their products are superb. There are large clumps of all the Stouts we purchased in the Spring of 2007. Buckeye is the first. In prior years we has Elfin F1 bloom but this year we moved it to a shaded area behind Elfin and it has yet to bloom. The Buckeye clump is shown below:
Close-up of the flower is as follows:
6 June 2008 Today we had the first hybrid, Orange Prelude.
Also we have H flava from Apps, a taller version of flava than what we had from Olallie.
Note the bracts, the scapes are 30" or more and stand erect. The branching is prominent and the buds are strong.
The flower is a strong yellow with a slight tint of brown on the sepals.
The brown on the sepals is more evident here. It looks almost like a dumortieri except that the buds are not sessile they are branched.
H minor is still blooming. It is always the first and seems to have the longest blooming period.
We have set up a naturalizing area for species, and the H minor is along the edge of a small stream. They seem also to do well in the middle of the pack as well. We intend to move them up to New Hampshire and naturalize them there. The region in New Hampshire is much like their native areas in China.
H dumortieri is blooming still. It shows great strength and we have been able to propagate many from seeds. This year we should have well over a thousand seeds to bring to New Hampshire along with the other species.
This is the display area for species. We started this in the fall of 2006. Last year it was controlled well but now we see the growth is quite aggressive. On the right laying down are the H minor, standing in the middle is H dumortieri and the tall yellow is H flava from Apps.
31 May 2008 Here are some of the early blooms.
29 April 2008 Today we have five species in bud. We present them as follows: H dumortieri This is again an early bud. These plants we have naturalized and they are growing very aggressively and have set hundreds of scapes. I am surprised as to how aggressive they can be. The buds are compact and sessile and they have bracts that approach the mid point of the bud, The scapes are erect and seem to be quite strong.
H dumortieri esculenta This is a variant of H dumortieri and the bud seems to reflect the same characteristic as of this stage. In the three new buds we see that they can be of similar form early on.
H flava This is H lilioasphedelus, the lemon daylily. It has the excessively long bracts along the side of the buds. The rate of growth in the past three days has been modest and there has been extensive rain, 1.5" or more during this period,
H middendorfii The bracts on this are similar to that of H flava, they are long and exceed the bud length. We plan on measuring the length of the leaves and scapes.
H minor H minor seems to be the most aggressive grower at this point. This plant is aside a small culvert and is fully exposed to the sun but somewhat protected from the cold west winds. The bracts appear almost as leaves and are in a cupping formation. The branching is apparent in the buds whereas the others are most likely sessile.
26 April 2008
H flava is the second early blooming plant. We show here the buds and the bracts are about half the bud length and the scapes are erect as compared to H minor, The leave are 2X to 3X the width of H minor.
Here is the bud in its initial form with the bracts formed but clearly showing a horned like form.
We show the bracts again. The discoloration on the leaves and scapes are from recent application of deer repellent. These plants are in an unfenced area and we maintain them with applications of different repellents every other day on a rotating basis.
23 April 2008 The first bud has appeared on H minor. These were transplanted to a naturalizing area along with many of the other species. This is the earliest I can remember that a minor bud has appeared. We record the H minor flowering as a sentinel event.
Note the bud structure. It has very long bracts on both sides and a darkening of the exterior of the bud itself. The bracts are almost twice the length of the bud at this stage.
This is another view of the bud and bract. We show these two additional views to obtain an better perspective. The H minor plants in other locations have not yet gone to bud.
The following shows the leaves. They are very grass like. In addition the scapes flop over and do not stand erect.
31 March 2008 On Sunday 30 March 2008 the Garden State Daylily Club held its first meeting for 2008. It announced the Annual Daylily Day at Deep Cut Gardens in Middletown on 28 June 2008. All are invited. That is two weeks before our annual Open House. The details are in the hyperlink above.We moved our seedlings to pots this weekend. We have been doing this the first weekend of April with success.
Note that we have them on planks and they are protected from west wind and clumped together. There are 100 crosses and there are 10-20 seedlings per pot. There are about 1,500 seedlings on these planks. They are fertilized with Osmocote, albeit it does not work until the weather is warmer, but for some reasons it deters squirrels. Also we spray it with a repellant just to be certain. The area is about 18 square feet and we use 6" pots.
The use of the pots makes for better control and reduces the infestation of grasses. It also allows for higher density of plant growth. As we noted before it also appears to improve plant growth. We shall see this summer with our pots from 2004, 2005 and 2006. The above shows how high density a growing area we can achieve with this method. Also one can see the number of seedlings per pot is quite high.
The pots from 2005 as shown here are demonstrating very strong growth. We will examine how well they do when exposed to the full summer growing conditions. Hopefully they can obtain adequate nutrition for growth and flowering for selection.
The 2006 crosses are also showing good growth. At this point they have been out for a full year. We are still seeing some freezing AM temps, albeit not killing frosts and all daylilies are growing. Here we can see the 2006 seedlings and the density of seedlings per pot is much lower. Generally we see a reduction and we will measure this effect starting this year.
We are showing the care of the pots for over-wintering as well as showing the seedling growth. Spring may be here soon. Let me show you a few tips as to what we are doing this year. Also we suggest you subscribe to the RSS feed, see the Home page. We use them a great deal now. First: I have had a few questions on my overwintering in pots. In the picture below I show the pots covered by leaves.
I have placed the plants in 6" pots and then the pots sit on planks on top of cinder blocks. Then I wrap them with plastic fencing and then fill it with leaves. I find pin oak laves last the best and provide maximum insulation. The purpose is not to keep them warm but to avoid the high temperature cycling that occurs if the pots were exposed. The high temperature cycling does the damage, not the freezing. Thus the leaf insulation provides adequate covering.
Second, how are the seedlings doing. I use a wooden work bench, temperature controlled heat pad, and grow lights to do the growing under. I also now use netting to keep my animal friends off. I have had squirrels and mice come in, the squirrels sleep on the seedlings and the mice eat them. This seems to work.
I keep the whole set on timer lights at 12 hours per day. In about two to three weeks I will take these outside in a green house and harden off in the sun for a month. Then in early April we place them on pots and begin the cycle.
Well we now know Spring is not too far away, our first snow drops are coming up.
H. coreana is an evergreen plant. Here we have even new growth after a fairly cold winter. This seems to be the first species to start leaf growth.
One of the things I have noticed is a few albino, no chlorophyll, plants.
Here we show the albino slowly dying off. I get about 0.5 to 1% albino seedlings every year. None survive.
We have just sent in our list of introductions for 2008. They appear here.
Brenda and Doug
Julia and Jerry
Maja's Tinkerbell
Nancy's Smile
Peter's Journey
Princess Martina
Sara's Dreams
Bishop Gabriel
January 1, 2008 Happy New Year, the seedlings are growing rapidly under the lamps and on the warm growing mats.
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