Blooming July 8

Musical Mosaic did a double..Anyone ever see that before?

Eye Catching

Two-Part Harmony

Pearl Harbor

Penny Pinsley

Papa David

Double blooms of Darla Anita

Cluster of Frans Hals

Fancy Face

Cluster of mysterious unknown

Closer look of the unknown just above..I thought it only had a pistal and no stamen, but on closer look and after 4 years trying to ID this DL, I saw this for the first time, Unbelievable!! The stamen are growing in the petals in the middle on the edge of the petals...they are part of the petal..If anyone has an explanation, please...please tell me if more DL do that. I hope this pic shows it.

Daylily4201, You have a petalid style double there, though not very double. As I understand it, a petaloid is an adaptation of the stamen into extra "petal material". Actually most doubles are formed this way, and not hose-in-hose style.

They are beautiful but it can be very difficult/impossible to obtain pollen from them as the anthers are fused into the petaloid. Many of David K's Truffle series are like that and especially his extra frilly doubles like Norma Desmond. I've had to tear the petaloid out and take the whole thing with me to be able to take any pollen. It's kind of like the image one gets when bending over and backwards to get a picture without one's hand in it. You really have to wiggle the petaloid around to get the pollen to the anther!

Hope this helps,

Leslie

Here is just a couple of seedlings for today ..Dont have time to post more sorry.

Nice deep purple..This was taken at 200pm

Is that the same delicious purple with white edges you posted before? It is so beautiful. Haven't gotten it out of my mind.

Nice Brown

No thats a different one this one is more deep purple...now here is one with good veining...and it's over 11"

huge 12" + bloom with a hint of bluish in the eye

Thats all for now..

David, they are gorgeous!

America's Most Wanted

Here For The Party

Larry Grace

Yellow Sculptured Hansen seedling reject.

Dan was about to kill off a couple rows of his selected seedlings so he let me take home the ones I liked first. This and the following are some from that group. I practived supreme discipline and only got 7 from several hundred! LOL

Hansen seedling reject #2.

Hansen tall purple seedling reject.

Lovely Ladybug

Shaman's Magic FFO on rebloom #1

Wow Hemlady! You had so many good ones today.....too many too list. Thanks for sharing.

Dablaw! Stop tempting us with those spiders unless you plan on sharing real soon!

What a bunch of stunners today! Dave, those seedlings make my mouthwater. I love purples. Here is FFO on Lola Branham. Not sure about the color, but the form and height are wonderful.

Age of Aquarius has such a high bud count that sometimes they have problems all opening right.

Cheery Ceil D'Or.

Susan,

Is that Age of Aquarius sideways? I was looking at it from 90*.

Leslie

Cinnamon Sunrise

daylily4201: I think your NOID red double may be 'Fires of Fuji'

I think I was sideways when I took the photo. LOL. Here is one that was sent to me as a bonus and labeled Pavlova, but it does not match the description of Pavlova, but it is a nice yellow with 5 way branching,

Yesterday's FFO on Laura Harwood was so ugly I didn't even have the heart to take a photo of it for the ugly thread. Today it made up for it by giving me 2 wonderful, huge deep purpel blooms. Wow! I really like this one.

Wild Mustang

YES!!!! Laura Harwood is WONDERFUL! I have a newly planted one.

I also LOVE your 'Lola Branham'!

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Here are a few of mine. 'Passionate Heart':