Finally got to see our new Daylilly today.

[8 Chicks 1967]

Hi all, we have had flowers for years and have had some success with new flowers through self pollination.

After 3 years of hope we got to see this new girl today and it was worth the wait.

It is a cross between a double Fragrant this flower

And a single non fragrant this flower

the new flower is a double and is also fragrant which is a big step as there are very few fragrant daylily's.

 

[AnimalGeek23]

Wow, it's so beautiful!

 

[Clucking_Crazy]

Pretty!

 

[8 Chicks 1967]

Now comes the hard part. It will take up to a year to get this new one registered and approved to become a new flower. Thank goodness these two pollen parent and seed parent are already registered at "Bear Daylily Farm" So, half the work is already done. Going to call this one "Donna Girl" .

 

[snow5164]

It’s beautiful, I’m just watching my yellow and pink peony start to open ... I too waited 3 summers after moving it to get one flower last year. This year there are 5 buds !! So exciting

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

That’s a beautiful day lily! I love day lilies! I have to get some for my garden beds.
Once you self pollinate the parent plants did you have to take the seeds off and then plant them?

 

[Labradors]

Simply beautiful, and worth the wait!

 

[8 Chicks 1967]

That’s a beautiful day lily! I love day lilies! I have to get some for my garden beds.
Once you self pollinate the parent plants did you have to take the seeds off and then plant them?

Yes, and hope they were dried and stored properly for the fall and winter season. Once they being to grow in the spring you are looking at about 3 season cycles before the plant is mature enough to bloom. Only then you get a glimpse of your hard work and patience.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Yes, and hope they were dried and stored properly for the fall and winter season. Once they being to grow in the spring you are looking at about 3 season cycles before the plant is mature enough to bloom. Only then you get a glimpse of your hard work and patience.

Wow. How do you store the seeds? I have some tiger lilies that have triple blooms and I really want to make more of them.

 

[lazy gardener]

I absolutely LOVE day lilies! That's on my bucket list: to work on hybridizing some of them. I really like the frills, and think your #2 parent is gorgeous. Are they Diploid, or Tetraploid? Know any thing about working with the latter?

To enter into my gardens, a day lily must be: fragrant, frilly, not overly tall, re-bloomer, not yellow or orange (resembling the wild types), have a picotee edge or a "knock your socks off" eye zone. Any combination of these traits get me salivating, and carressing my credit card. But, alas, I've kind of run out of room!

They are pretty much impervious to disease and insect pests in my area.