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Festival of Flowers, Pearl Farmer's Markets and upcoming events

JoNelle — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:36:51 +0000

Yesterday was a very busy and long day. First Marty was at the Pearl Farmer’s Market and I was over at the Festival of Flowers. Marty did really well at the Farmer’s Market. I know he couldn’t answer a lot of questions – but for him even answering the simple questions is great.

At the Festival of Flowers, I gave the 10:30 am seminar on daylilies. It was a great crowd with lots of eager gardeners. The San Antonio Daylily Society was selling bare root daylilies at the Festival and they essentially sold out of their daylilies – hooray, since it is our club’s main fundraiser. For the seminar, I created and gave a power point presentation (a little different for me), but it allowed me to show a lot more flowers and garden settings using daylilies. I think that I will expand it a little more to include a couple of other items and then I will continue to use it in some of my club and nursery seminars that I give. At the Festival I didn’t take any daylilies to sell (since SADS was selling them), but I did take bearded iris and dwarf sunflowers (see last week’s blog). They went over great and it was a very successful day.

Next week at the Pearl Brewery Farmer’s Market, the Grand Opening of the Riverwalk Extension is occurring. So it will be another busy and eventful day at the market. Look for our plant listings on Thrusday night/Friday morning on the blog. I will also be giving a daylily and iris seminar at Schultz Nursery on Broadway at 2 pm. It is always great going to Schulz, since they continue to have a great array of choice plants.

In two weeks, June 6th, is our Annual Spring Garden Day here at the ranch, and Markets in the Country with Rhew Orchards (peaches), Green Country Farm (blackberries), and Cooper’s Garden Place. We are expecting a great crowd with lots of things going on. Some of the surrounding garden clubs will be having tables set up with information, and we will also some BBQ (hamburgers and sausage) plates available. We are already planning on what daylilies to have pre-dug for customers, and we will have some potted bearded iris, and other plants in 4″ pots, and 1 gal containers. See our listing of plants the week before the Garden Day. We hope to see a lot of you here even if you just want cruise through the gardens looking at ideas. Kids are more than welcome and we have lots of room for them to run around.

Pearl Farmer's Market and Festival of Flowers

JoNelle — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:04:23 +0000

Sunbright Kid Sunflower

This Saturday will be an especially busy weekend. First Marty will be holding down the fort at the Pearl Farmer’s Market Saturday morning. Please be kind and gentle with him – he is NOT a gardener. He will have some bare root daylilies, some bulbine (see yesterday’s blog), some neat little sunflowers, some sedums, and a few other things. All in all it will be pretty simple for him. The sunflowers that he will have are shorties. The first one Sunbright Kids – only gets to be about 8″ tall, and the second one Sundance Kids gets between 15 – 17″ tall. Both are great for containers and for the front of the garden.

The reason Marty is taking over for me at the Pearl Farmer’s Market is because at 10:30 I will be giving the daylily seminar (featured plant this year) at the 2009 Festival of Flowers. I will then be at

Sundance Kid Sunflower

the Festival of Flowers until 5 pm, answering questions and selling plants. I will be taking mainly bearded iris to the Festival of Flowers. Since the Festival of Flwoers is one of the main fundraisers for our San Antonio Daylily Society, I will not bring any competing daylilies in. So I hope to see you at one or both of the events this Saturday.

New Daylily Pictures

Linda — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:57:26 +0000

May Daylily Pictures
Enjoy!!!

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Jason Salter

Wild Wookie

Yellowthunder Carpenter

: Mystic Mariner

: Free Wheelin

Clueless Double

His Highness

In Style

Assemetry

Good Morning America

Pat's Unknown Daylily

PatS — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:29:56 +0000

Hi all,

Pat's Unknown Daylily

I have a daylily blooming that I need help identifying (see photo). If you know this specific cultivar, please leave a comment and tell me what it is.

Thanks

Pat

Ray's Whispy Rays

Ray in New Braunfels — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:44:39 +0000

First off . . .JoNelle, THANK YOU for furnishing this service!!!
Deer seem to have taken a vacation from my yard, so for now the daylilies are safe . . They have been allowed to grow and to have scapes and I’ve had some blooms. I don’t know if rains have greened up the deer’s regular grazing areas or if the Bobbex helped to keep them away. But whatever the reason, I am grateful to see some scapes and blooms.
As I have mentioned to several, what I find unusual this year is the emergence of new fans on the California grower plantings from the fall. I had bought some plants from Maryotts and then I bought plants at the auction from Goldcoast. Most of these new fall plantings added fans over winter. I have bought double-fan plants that remain double fan plants for a good while (some still remain so), but these plants increased . .and wow am I surprised!!! EX: I bought a double fan of Winston Churchill at the auction. and I now have five fans. For me that is highly unusual. But that happened with several other plants from the sources I named above. It could be just a fluke, but if so, it was a most welcome fluke. Has anyone else had such results?
I am sending JoNelle a pic of WISPY RAYS that perhaps she can post. I had wanted this plant for a long time and I broke down and bought it from Maryotts in the fall. I am ever so pleased with it. It was all I had hoped for and more.

Blooming daylilies

JoNelle — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:26:17 +0000

Daylily Blue Voodoo

Well more of my daylilies are starting to send up scapes (flower stalks) and more are still emerging from dormancy. As long as we continue to get rain we should have a pretty good bloom season, although a little off schedule. Here are a couple of my daylilies blooming, and a couple of others are from Pat in Marion.

Pat's Spirit Folk daylilydaylily Forbidden Fantasy

More Blooms

JoNelle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:41:09 +0000

daylily Velvet Rose

daylily Border Lord

Pat sent me these photos of some of her daylilies that are beginning to bloom.

SADS' April 19th meeting

JoNelle — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:39:04 +0000

SADS’ April 19th meeting will be on floral design by Boyd Farar. Boyd is going to creating 8 – 10 small table top designs with silk flowers (no bugs and never needs watering!!!!) that we will then auction off for donations to the club. While he is creating these floral arrangements he will be teaching us the fundamentals of floral design, so that we can use them in our May 9th SADS Tri-color Show. I only hope that I can be as creative as Boyd!

First Bloom 2009

JoNelle — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:42:03 +0000

The first blooms always get me going again too, especially the ones in early spring. Now my daylilies seem to be about 2 weeks behind what they were last year, I’ve only seen a couple of scapes on my pots and none in my field yet. My beared iris are just starting to bloom as well.

Walking in Sunshine

Sandy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:34:18 +0000

Don came in this morning to tell me that his “Walking In Sunshine” had a scape on it. He has been so busy this past week getting everything ready for spring with his Daylilies and Roses. I thought he was losing interest in Daylilies but when I saw the look on his face this A.M., I don’t think so!