Friday, August 10, 2012

Day Lilies - never seen before today


Today Gardens at Waters Eastunveils” the newest hybridized day lilies.  The plants were hybridized in 2009 and the first blooms appeared in the last weeks.  It has taken three years to get to this point,  and you are the first to see these newest creations.  It is always amazing to see what comes from crossing this with that.  Always a surprise.

This new series is titled:  The Sweet Water Seas.  That was the name often used by the early European explores to this area of the Great Lakes.  Each daylily has a name related to the Great Lakes but in this posting only the code numbers will be used.  (NOTE:  Each number before the “X”, designates a different set of “parents”.  Notice how even with the same parents – there are striking variation with the offspring).

This has indeed been a labor of love – a long time in coming.
Hope you enjoy what you see here today.

 1X







1X  the male and female used in hybridizing were:
 Female - Awesome Candy     Male MK#4

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 3X





















3X  the male and female used in hybridizing were: 
 Male Awesome Candy     Female MK#3

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9X



9X  the male and female used in hybridizing were:
 Male Awesome Candy     Female MK#4

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10X



10X  the male and female used in hybridizing were:
 Male Awesome Candy     Female MK#7

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12X



12X  the male and female used in hybridizing were:
 Male MK#7     Female Steroid

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13X











13X  the male and female used in hybridizing were:
 Female Awesome Candy     Male MK#10


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7 comments:

  1. woww I love the day lilies, it´s dificult to say which one is the most beautiful! But the purple ones have to be among my favourits!

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  2. Sensational new hybrids. What a great job!

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  3. Given the possible variations, did they come out as you had planned / expected or was it more 'try and see'?

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  4. Congratulations, they all look beautiful!Especially those which look like velvets. 3 years you had to wait until the daylilies flowered, it takes a lot of patience for such crossing experiments, you have my full admiration!
    Sisah

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  5. You did a great job, such a beautiful colours, especially the first photo is a real beauty, but I'm also fond of the dark red velvet colours.
    When I see these daylilies, I get so greedy.
    I wish you a lot of success!

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  6. What a gorgeous mix of colors! Good luck to you. These are beauties.

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  7. your daylilies are gorgeous. i have a big clump of 9 years old daylily but it never bloom.

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