Autumn in Lithuania

 I spend a lot my time in university things all the time and this time I can give all time only for myself. And what a free time without talking with you all. At first thanks for all who view and comment. I seen all comments, and have them all in mind. Today I will talk about my free time.

On the top was a new plant in my garden. As I love ornamental plants in fair I buy this nice Carex, which I hope was hardy enough for my winter.

  This autumn, after contest in Prague I had a lot possibilities to use and one of them is a new land field for my works. So one of my interest is all kinds of plants, so I spend few days after university for seeds picking. I go to arboretums, and dendro-parks. I love all kind of maples, so I collect about a thousand of seeds and as they are fresh almost all will germinate. Here I show few photos of my lovely time spent in park areas.

 This tree catch my eye and I go to look close even grass was very wet. I was shocked when I saw that this is quercus (Oak) tree.  The leaves was very nice and have like some kind a fur. I pick few leaves to my collection of leaves. I just start some new one, because leaves is get old and I do not know how to keep them in great condition.

What I like is color of autumn. I love to live in Lithuania where is a lot of trees with leaves and in autumn all of them has different colors. Like rainbow in forest. Here is a photo of color contrast. Also that tree has unusual shadow. Just take a look. It looks like square. I just go closer to take a look if that is true. And yes it is.

Lovely tree which catch all people eye. This is catalpa tree with seedpods. I pick a lot of them and they has full dose seeds.

 

And in end of my colorful blog without daylilies and irises, I add what I did yesterday. As I Lithuania we do not have official day called Halloween, I just want to feel the same what people in U.S. feel. Just with carved pumpkin. And this is how I imagine it.

In light and in dark. Love this creation.

 

Good luck, and have a nice autumn and not very cold winter.

Edvinas

New possibilities with big chalange

Hello for all who seen my post in here,

Today I write full of good feelings. Yesterday I get invitation to The London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF). This is very, very special for me. But the main problem for me is coast for participation. That fee is 1 495 GPB (about 2 424 dollars). Money for tickets I can collect, but participation fee for me is too big. So I try to search for donations to get in this event. I understand I ask very much, but I know nothing to how to reach money to this.
 This event will be heald in London (UK) and it is great opportunity for me to reach better communication stills and the main point of it is scientific time with special students from all over the world. To present my country and my interest in science will be so nice and interesting and to listen lectures and see great residential places of London, visit universities, labs and etc.
The biggest challange now is money. If you may have any suggestions for me, please feel free and write what you suggest for me to do to get money.

Good luck,
Edvinas

More daylilies I have, more problem I can show.

Hello,

 

Now I will write a little different than normal. All summer I have a plan to write a blog with question and wait for answer. As I know that my blog read all kind of people from simple to very respectful daylily hybridizers/professionals. In comment box I want to see the answers of question which I write.

As I grow daylilies in Lithuania, maybe I have some other problems (not hardy now), but bloom spots. This summer I seen that I have very much blooms with spots and that is my one headache of this year. I try to found some information in books, or articles, but nothing found. So I ask for professionals in this field. What cause this, how to protect from it and does it have any genetically variation or just because of weather conditions or soil?

I give few photos as examples how they look. These are not all. I took just few of them and others just cut off when I seen that I have them, because visitors won't want to see blooms who not like normal.

 

Big Red Vagon. In all season I have seen only one perfect in color bloom. This one is close to perfect, but still have some spots.

Bass Gibson x unknown. This one show me all different blooms. Others look nice and this one not.

Lacy Dusk x Get'R done. It is almost perfect, but still few spots

Paint the Rose Red. One of most complicated variety I have. All blooms looks like this or worse.

AHS-15. The worst seedling of year. All blooms look like this. My grandmother say that this is new variety type because I have all blooms with spots. I hope she just laugh.

Bass Gibson x unknown. The same seedling as I post few photos up.

Startle. I grow this variety for 3 years and never seen normal bloom. Just this day, when I took that photo it looks absolutely not like Startle. I think this is the worst daylily variety I grow.

AHS-15. The same seedling (I can't drag it close to other, sorry for problems)

 

Fizziwig. This variety is very unusual because it have stippled blooms, but it has spots also and make that variety look not very nice.

 

So this is my topic which I want to get know better and teach Lithuanians and get better blooms next year.

Wait for answers.

 

Bye,

Edvinas