Lithuanian daylily and iris garden

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Daylily blooms. Part II

Dear blog readers,

I am very happy to notice, that my blog reached 18 thousands views from beginning. That is big numbers just for a beginner. I am moving forward and do not think about stopping. Just looking for something new. Still breeding, enjoying new plants, trying to collect seeds of almost everything and sow to look for something new. It is fun to found a little different faces in seedling beds.

Today I show second round of bloom photos. There are just two day photos. And not all captured. So you can imagine how fast my garden is growing. I really love my daylilies, and especially some great from my friends who donated seeds in past 4 years. I think that my next blog post will be from States. If my phone let me post as much as I want, I show something nice of what I see in my visit. Dreams come true, and Lithuanian daylily and iris gardener see some world and get in touch with most recently daylilies in Running Fox Farm (Owner Claudia and Dave Conway) and New England Daylily Society Exhibition in July 25 at Tower Hill Botanical Garden, Boylston, MA. And some more great activities that have been planned for me. Stay in touch with this blog and see my new adventures.

But before that, enjoy my second round of blooms.

Karamelė (J.A.Liutkevičius)

Ofelija (Dalia Žigarienė)

Emil Gwizdala seedling - (Gaudy Gaudy x Fashion Police)

Awesome Blossom x First Knight

Song Writer x Larry Longson. Seeds from Mick Morry

Custard Candy x Moriah. Seeds from Claudia Conway

Connie Burton x Blue Crystal. Seeds from Claudia Conway

Triassic Teeth x Forestlake Point Lace. Seeds from Claudia Conway (or Lily Auction)

Maple Leaf Forever x Blue Eyed Dragon. Seeds from Mick Morry

Juodasis Radvila (J.A.Liutkevičius)

Bob Olson x unknown. Seeds from John Kulpa

El Desperado x Raspberry Queen TM. You maybe are familiar with Raspberry Queen, but this is other used in this cross. It is red to purple, very strong and great bud builder. This seedling doesn't have such a good bud count, but it grow very well and blooms look really strong.

Night Beacon x Dj Leo

Raspberry Queen TM x El Desperado

Dear Moon x New Style

Dacquiri x Peacock Maiden

Bass Gibson sdlg x unknown. Seeds from John Kulpa

Charlie x Uri Geller. Seeds from AHS International Seed Bank

Pink unknown spider x Peacock Maiden

Windham Aphrodite's Nighty x Webster's Pink Wonders. Seeds from AHS International Seed Bank

({Fire From Heaven x Point View} x Web Browser). Seedling from Pollie Maasz. Such a great seedling with 33 cm (12.99 in) blooms.

Cherry Swizzler (Stamile 2009)

Lee Reinke x Jerry's Whirligig. Seeds from AHS International Seed Bank

Stalingrad x Purple Petticoats. Seeds from Mick Morry

(Raspberry Suede x Spacecoast Behaviour Pattern) x (Precious Candy x Pricilla's Smile). Seeds from Nina Waters.

Tall Tom seedling. Seeds from Chad Bush.

William Colby Jones x (Blue Hippo x Special Candy). Seeds from Claudia Conway

Chesapeake Crablegs x Lovely Pink Lady. Seeds from Brian Bender.

Optical Art x White Tooth. Seeds from Mick Morry. Just great bloom for this day. I am so happy to be able see this in personal and hold in my hands. Proud to be owner of such a great seedling.

Unknown Red spider x Irish Coffee TM

Sensation (Vasarietis)

Unknown red spider x New Style

Ocean Blues x Larry Longson. Seeds from Mick Morry.

Mitsu x Night Beacon

Night Beacon x Dj Leo

Peacock Maiden x Dear Moon

Dear Moon x New Style

Spacecoast Frances Busby x Larry Longson. Seeds from Mick Morry

Forestlake Ragamuffin x Jennifer Fischer Tomlinson. Seeds from Jo Ann Smith Godwin.

Mitsu x Night Beacon

Vakara Vesma x Irish Coffee TM

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Daylilies in extreme dry season

This season for gardening is extremely hard for us, in Lithuania. We have early, but cold spring. Everything emerged from ground, but started to grow normally just in June. Other bad thing is rain. We doesn't have it for a long time. Garden was dry like desert. Even I watered it with hose, but still hot days dry everything in seconds. But still I have some nice blooms to show for you all.

Before I start to show these blooms, I enjoy and breed, I want to apologize for no posts for a long time. University just kept me busy. It was harder than anything I can imagine. So took my all time. During free time I enjoy gardening, water it and weed.

Also, had some big plans for my garden as experimental field for landscape architecture studies. In study projects I used some great literature books with Piet Oudolf designed gardens and public places with tons of grasses and other herbaceous plants. So I wanted to express what is in my head with several Dutch wave beds. I ordered 1029 plants to make it come true. And planted them all in two evenings after studies by my own. It was fun. Get to know numbers and understand how they look later. As it is dry, I've lost some of these cute little plants, but that is natural for any planting. Lost is usual for me. Unusual soil, weather surprises make it

harder for my budget.

You might think it is planted too close. I knew, that some not survive, also have plans to redone big flower bed. Already started move some lawn to make it bigger. I noticed, that this new garden is no longer that big, because I still have a lot of plants to put in right place, but space is limited. Hard to imagine how fast I filled my new garden spaces. Soon I start to change something and make it plant heaven as I had in past garden. With small place and tons of plants.

And start with daylilies. As topic of today. And my beginning of story starts from spring, when I moved ALL DAYLILIES TO NEW GARDEN. I am still counting how much I moved, planted. Still mapping daylily beds and counting. I will inform numbers in autumn (if not forgot). In following photo you can see almost all daylily beds, all daylily zone in my long garden. Maybe from photo you can notice, that my garden is slim and long. That is serious task for landscape architecture not to look so long. So I am experimenting with various combinations of planting, and creating areas.

And now, glorious show of colors, shapes and forms. You can notice my new gift from parents (phone with extreme good camera), so all photos look ten times better than before. So enjoy.

[All names are under each photo. Seedlings are mine, if not, I noted from where I got seeds]

Texas Sunlight x Chief Four Fingers - Seeds from AHS International Seed Bank

Forestlake Ragamuffin x Spacecoast Devil's Disciple - Seeds from AHS International Seed Bank

Leslie Renee-1 x Italian Kaleidoscope - Seeds from Claudia Conway

Moonshiner x Simple Okulfrapa - Seeds from Izidor Golob

Lee Reinke x Jerry's Whirligig - Seeds from AHS International Seed Bank

Dear Moon x New Style

Dear Moon x Night Beacon

Mitsu x Dear Moon

Dear Moon x Night Beacon

Magic of Oz seedling from AHS International Seed Bank

Bičių Duonelė 100% double (Gift from my first teacher of breeding and first mentor - Jonas Auksuolis Liutkevičius)

Mitsu x Noght Beacon

Mitsu x Night Beacon

Fiji-2 × Italian Kaleidoscope - Seeds from Claudia Conway

'Asterisk' (Lambert 1985)

'Wild One' (Wild 1973)

Dear Moon x New Style

Mitsu x New Style

Night Beacon x Dj Leo

Dear Moon x Night Beacon

Unknown red daylily

'Watchyl Dancing Spider' (Kreger 1994)

'Telltale Heart' (Doorakian 2006) - parent for almost all DIPLOID daylily crosses. That is powerful parent for me this season.

Mitsu x Night Beacon

Mitsu x New Style

Border Music x It's a Miracle - Seeds from Claudia Conway

Night Beacon x Dj Leo - Poly for over 75% of blooms

Karamelė (J. A. Liutkevičius) - Lithuanian daylily. Sadly, not registered.

That is all for this time. I do like writing about my garden, because someone care about this and that is so great. Blog is to keep my diary, but also to show what my life is. I hope next posts will amaze you, because I am going to visit STATES. Yes, America, here I come.