In this posting are a few photos of the latest day lilies now blooming which were hybridized here at the Gardens at Waters East in the summer of 2020. Planted in the summer of 2021. It takes three to four years for all of them to begin blooming. As you can see from the years, it takes a long time before I see exactly what I have created. Patience is a virtue here!
A surprise bloom this week. The following daylily was part of the group that was the most recent to be hybridized. It was hybridized in the summer of 2021, planted 2022 and has already bloomed.
Normally it would not bloom until next summer 2025 (three years after planting). Maybe it came early because of the warmer than usual winter we had plus lots of rain in Spring. None of the other seeds I planted at the same time (2021) show any sign of possible blooms.
A special note: I gave away to friends a couple hundred of daylily seeds from this same (2021) hybridizing session. I will have to check with those people to see if they have any already blooming one year earlier like I do here in the gardens.
I decided after that session of hybridizing in 2021 that enough is enough. I have been hybridizing daylilies for 20 years and it is time to move on. Time now to enjoy seeing in summers the more than 600 plants I have created.
Here are only a few of the many day lilies hybridized over the last 20 years.
If your go back through past postings you will find many of them.
( posted on 8/10.12. 8/2/15. 8/3/15. 8/4/15. 11/28/16. 12/27/16. 2/15/20. 2/17/20. 2/20/20. 7/28/21. 9/10/22. 9/26/22. Plus many posted in among other photos on past postings.)
Enjoy
