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Day Lillies

Walter John

By Walter John
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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Walter John Grand Master

Walter John

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Here's my first day lilly for the spring season, thought I'd share with you.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Daryl Grand Master

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Isn't spring a great time of year! Nice daylilly Wal. Spring in my garden is always trumpeted by the arrival of Hippeastrum flowers. Here are a few that are flowering this morning...I reckon they complement any tropical style garden.

Daryl

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Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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Daryl Grand Master

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A couple more...

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Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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Walter John Grand Master

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Now Daryl, what's the chances of a bulb or two of those babies ? After all I did use your palm on the cover of the newsletter  :D

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Walter John Grand Master

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Here's the variations of my Hippeastrums. Not as grand as yours Daryl, buddy old mate  :;):

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Here's our full red, photo taken about 10 days ago.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Daryl Grand Master

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No worries Wal, come and pick up a few bulbs...

Daryl

Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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I love Hemerocallis flowers, they look so exotic.  I just wish Cannas had the same variety of flowers, then you'd have the great flower and great foliage.

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Fall is here, fall is here!

Life is skittles

And life is beer

Wish fall came every time of the year

Ahem!

Well, maybe not.  We do have the brush fires, but my birthday's coming up, and well, I just go more hawg-wild than usual.  

Oh! I can smell the sandal-wood fires on the hills, (which don't have eyes).

Fall in So-Cal.

Hmm.  B-Day in Oz, when Summer's nigh, the Hippeastrum are bloomin' and chunder's everywhere . . . .

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Ignoring dave for a moment, here is another photo of one of my hippies, "chunder everywhere ?", I hope you don't expect kangaroos to be running up my street Dave when you come to visit for that BBQ. Don't forget to bring a six pack, James Boags premium would be nice, how do you like your steak ?

Here's the best hippesatrum photo I could manage on the Yashica 4 megapixel.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Daryl Grand Master

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Wal, you have some good looking Hippies there..reckon we should swap a few...

Dave, no chunder around here, not even on my b'day, but we do have kangaroos and wallabies running down the street...

Daryl

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Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

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bgl Grand Master

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Great photos and beautiful flowers! And those day lilies taste real good as well! Makes a colorful and tasty addition to a salad.

Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm

 

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Some more from this morning.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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(bgl @ Oct. 15 2006,03:14)

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Great photos and beautiful flowers! And those day lilies taste real good as well! Makes a colorful and tasty addition to a salad.

Funnily enough, I saw a programme that interviewed the holder of the UK national collection of day lillies and he was eating the petals.  The programme that conducted the interview made a joke about it and him, but obviously he is not alone, so it surprises me that they were so dismissive of the idea.

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Ave Jan Low 34F/1C (21F/-6C Min)

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Corey,

Yes, they are quite tasty! Try one!

Bo-Göran

Leilani Estates, 25 mls/40 km south of Hilo, Big Island of Hawai'i. Elevation 880 ft/270 m. Average rainfall 140 inches/3550 mm

 

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Wal, do you know the name of the orange spider daylily in message 16?  I love orange flowers!

I've eaten daylily petals in salads.  Some taste better than others; my biggest is juicy with a little garlic flavor.

Diane

East of Seattle & Lake Washington

in Kirkland

Zone 8

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Hey Wal. In that last pic in the background, looks like you are growing Malva neglecta. I know this one as my grandparents grow it. I think the common name is Cheeses, because the seed clusted look like wheels of Cheese.

Zac

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Walter John Grand Master

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Dianne

Hi there, How does that RLR pocket guide go ?. Sorry, I never bothered with Day Lilly names as most of mine I purchased from various weekend markets where they had no names. I bought about 15 or so all up and propagate them every 2 or 3 years. One day I'll have thousands :D

Zac

That last pic of the Hippeastrum ? Looking at the photo to the right is lower leaves of our mulberry tree and to the left is Geranium. It does have similar leaves to the Malva weed.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Wal -- I only have 2 daylilies right now but am searching for an orange spider that's late blooming.  Tasting good would be a plus.   :)

Larry Noblick of Montgomery Botanic Center (next to Fairchild) did a thorough review of The Pocket Guide for me/for RLR.  Scott Zona and Paul Craft also reviewed it.  I got the suggestions consolidated and to Timber Press on time.  I'm not sure yet when it will be published but will let you know.  2007 for sure I would think.  The editor had wanted RLR to make more changes but she left that alone.  It will just make the guide more Rifflish.  That's more appealing to me anyway.

We haven't had a freeze yet in the Seattle area and my little garden is looking very lush and tropical.  I noticed a few mini-daylilies still blooming.  I must have 100 blossoms on one of my brugmansias (a big deal for me!), and the Musa basjoos are HUGE.

Diane

East of Seattle & Lake Washington

in Kirkland

Zone 8

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A couple more pics taken this afternoon.

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Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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