Brazosport Daylily Showcase

My Journal

2008-07-23T15:55:00.002-05:00

Eddie Ray,
I ordered my Journal last week when I joined. I also ordered Illustrated Guide To Daylilies. just a few days the Illustrated Guide To Daylilies came in but not my Daylily Journal. Does it take a while to get that? or do I need to get a hold of someone about it. I would love to have it. Please let me know.

Thanks

Becky

She's everywhere!

2008-07-19T18:05:00.003-05:00

Here's Lois Hall in my garden back in May! :-)

Purple Circle Clump

2008-07-19T12:07:00.002-05:00

This clump of Purple Circle was blooming in our garden on May 15th. It was registered by Inez Tarrant in 1979. The flower is 4" and blooms on a 21" scape. It started blooming on April 30th and had rebloom on June 4th.

Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow

2008-07-19T11:02:00.002-05:00

Photo of "Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow" blooming in Ray Houston's garden. This plant has white, lavender, and purple blooms all at the same time. It blooms in the spring and again in the fall.

Lois Hall

2008-07-19T10:49:00.004-05:00

This photo of Lois Hall was taken in the Crainer garden during the June garden tours.

Hawk in Ray's Garden

2008-07-19T10:44:00.003-05:00

This photo was taken of a Hawk chick in Ray Houston's garden.

The Ellers at Lone Star Meeting

2008-07-18T14:28:00.002-05:00

I forgot to mention that Don & Nancy Eller, hybridizers I believe from MS, will be at the Lone Star Daylily Society meeting this coming Sunday. The meeting starts at 2:00pm and is at the Senior Center, Alvin, Texas. The club has bought plants from the Ellers and they will have an auction afterwards. The Ellers hybridize the plants that have "Duck" somewhere in the name.

Manure - Free

2008-07-18T14:25:00.002-05:00

Hey Gang, while I was in Angleton this week, I saw a sign saying "Free Manure". This was at the "Pony Ride" facility located on N. Highway 35. If any of you are looking at fertilizer for a "new" bed - this would be a good ingredient. For those of you new to the club - you do not use this fertilizer around your plants because it is "too hot". It is a good ingredient to place in a bed that you are getting ready for fall or spring planting.

All Fired Up

2008-07-10T18:13:00.003-05:00

Meeting this Sunday

2008-07-10T17:10:00.001-05:00

Don't forget the meeting this Sunday. It starts at 2:30pm.

Prolifs

2008-07-10T17:04:00.002-05:00

Gang - how many of you are out there looking for prolifs? Have you been inspecting the plants? I picked several off today, trimmed and put them in water. For your newbies, a prolif is a plant that grows off of the scape. It is one of two ways that you can get an exact replica of that plant. The other is by division of the clump. You cut the scape (when it starts dying and reaches the prolif) just below the prolif (about 1"). Cut the top of the scape just above the prolife (about 1"). Place the prolif in a cup/glass of water. Place it in the windowseal and watch it put on roots. Keep changing the water about everyother day. When you have sufficient roots, you then either plant in a pot or in the ground directly (preferably shade until late October). Don't forget to label. I use plastic spoons and write in paint ink (on the round part) the name of the plant. This way you will know what it is when it comes time to place in the garden.

Plumerias

2008-06-24T22:37:00.002-05:00

Hey Milton, those blooms are beautiful. You and Art both need to sell some at our October plant sale.

Plumeria Blooms

2008-06-24T11:36:00.008-05:00

Plumeria - Tillie Hughes

Plumeria - Pink Cloud

Plumeria - Radish

Plumeria - Scott Pratt

Plumeria - Common Red

Plumerias

2008-06-24T10:43:00.003-05:00

This is my Plumeria collection. Plumerias are lots of fun to grow. I move my Plumerias to the greenhouse in November for the winter and then replant them in the garden after April 1. Moving them back and forth is lots of work because of the number of plants I have, but the reward is the blooms in Spring, Summer and Fall.

Plumerias

2008-06-22T15:51:00.002-05:00

Art - the pictures of the plumerias were beautiful. When we were at the Leffingwell's for the garden tour, they had many plumerias with many of them blooming. While we were at the convention, Bobbie Brooks of Gloustershire (sp), MA wanted to know why the Shimek's had deadsticks planted in their garden - why didn't they just pull them out. I laughed and explained to them that they were plumerias and hadn't started blooming yet. My daughter has one that I gave her (via the Payne's) from my garden about 6 years ago. It is never dug up for the winter (she lives in the Spring area right off I-45) and it blooms constantly throughout the bloom season. She lives in a subdivision and it is protected from the winter cold. It is now about 10' tall.

Here is a picture of one that I took at the Leffingwell's this June.

2008-06-21T13:25:00.000-05:00

PLUMERIAS

for several years now, i have used plumerias
as companion plants for the daylilies. it does
involve some work because i dig them out in
the winter and plant them back feb-mar. but
this time of the year one enjoys the pay off,
they bloom profusely. it is worth a try!!!
enjoy!!!!

adimp

Exotic Rhythm

2008-06-19T22:11:00.001-05:00

Visual Difference Inez Tarrent

2008-06-19T22:04:00.002-05:00

Brittney Lynn Murry Inez Tarrant

2008-06-19T21:56:00.002-05:00

Interesting Idea

2008-06-19T16:04:00.003-05:00

I think this blog idea is going to be a lot of fun - - - and informative. I have no pictures to share right now but may have pictures later. I'm just "getting my feet wet" in the use of (posting to) this new blog.

Milton Nollkamper

2008-06-19T13:53:00.000-05:00

lotus plants and flowers. these are last years blooms. it has been late this year. it goes dormant in the winter and the leaves start coming out in spring and subsequently blooms. the roots and bulbs are completely submerged in water. it then makes seedpods which are edible. this year i have a red that is ready to bloom. enjoy adimp

Night Blooming Cereus

2008-06-19T11:02:00.008-05:00

I was very excited to see my Night Blooming Cereus perform for the first time last week. I've kept it in the greenhouse and just happened to notice the buds that appeared seemingly overnight! So I wagged the whole thing into the house, popped some popcorn and watched the show. The buds slowly bloomed from 9 PM to about midnight. When fully opened, the flowers were about 8" in diameter (including the tendrils on the back). They smelled heavenly but by morning they had closed. - Donah

2008-06-18T23:46:00.000-05:00

more garden photos

2008-06-18T23:42:00.000-05:00

brazosport daylily society garden tour june 2008

2008-06-18T23:06:00.000-05:00

h. dark monkey (GOZZARD 2007) a real bloomer!!!

adimp

2008-06-18T23:00:00.000-05:00

h. lake jackson beauty. this is the photo in the back cover of the summer 2008 daylily journal.

adimp

hi

2008-06-18T22:40:00.002-05:00

Other Perennials - Amaryllis

2008-06-17T19:51:00.010-05:00

Charisma - purchased from Florida Grower

Hermitage - purchased from Florida grower.

Birthday Gift - Stain Glass Window - with

Mother's amaryllis underneath

Perhaps the largest amaryllis I own. My mother

gave this to me many years ago and it's babies

have been scattered all over the beds. It always

blooms 4 huge blooms on each stalk.

Double - from my Mother

Laughing Clown -obtained from Ace Hardware

on Telephone Road - now no longer sells

flowers.

Dancing Queen - I purchased this beautiful triple from an amaryllis farm that also sold daylilies. It was located in Florida. The bulbs that arrived were growing size for that spring.

These amaryllis pictures don't show the old faithful Apple Blossom - a variety that can be purchased from Wal-Mart. I once had a display that a neighbor had a friend visiting and asked if it was real. The real good deal can be obtained after the "season" to get and plant them for the next year's display. Purchased several this way and got them for $1.38 each. Can't wait for next year to see them blooming underneath my rose - Climbing Pinkie

Whites in my Garden - 2008

2008-06-17T19:47:00.003-05:00

This is Dan Hansen's Prayerful Vigilance* '03 - It is new to my garden this year and it really is white.

Another white

2008-06-17T19:43:00.001-05:00

This is Spacecoast Snow Angel - Kinnebrew '96

Magic Mandolin

2008-06-17T12:29:00.003-05:00

This is Magic Mandolin - E.H. Salter '05. This is a much have daylily. It sends up new rebloom before the first scape is finished. The colors hold up nicely in the hot sun as mine gets no shade whatsoever.

Donah's Blooms

2008-06-15T18:22:00.014-05:00

Here are a few pictures from my garden:

H. "Octopus Hugs" (Stamile 2000)

H. "Clear Across America" (Houston, 2003)

H. "Spacecoast Cotton Candy" (Kinnebrew-J., 2001)

H. "Spacecoast Easy Rider" (Kinnebrew-J.,2001) H. 'Lavender Blue Baby' (J. Carpenter 1996)

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Blue Skies & Abundant Blooms,

Donah Bohannon