There are orange daylilies, then there are orange daylilies

There are orange daylilies and then there are orange daylilies. When you look closely at the common roadside orange it actually very beautiful. Just don't want it in the flowerbeds with your other daylilies. The common daylilies spread by shooting off underground and a new plant appears "over there". With the others the plant just keeps getting bigger around. They stay where you put them. Common Roadside Orange

Common Orange Double

I call this a Common Orange Double because I have never seen it in any daylily catalogs, and it does appear to be fairly common. Especially among my friends, since I have given them starts of it. It does not multiple like the common roadside daylily, but like all the others.

Mauna Loa

Orange Velvet

Eye-Yi-Yi

Orange Vols

So you see even in orange the daylilies don't look anything alike.
Then I just had to throw in another photo of the Open Hearth daylily,
it sort of goes with these.

Open Hearth

I bought 15 new varieties at the festival last Friday.

Won't be seeing those blooms until next year,

but I still have more post of this years blooms.

So if you like daylilies, be watching.

Eye-Yi-Yi Daylily

Eye-Yi-Yi catches your eye from all the way across the yard. You can see where this one got it's name. I also got it in 2006 at the Oakes Daylilies Festival.

Happy Birthday to my dear brother Tommy. Even though you don't like flowers, here's to you. I love you! I am even posting earlier than usual because I know how early you arrive in the office. Don't call me I still worked till midnight, I will call you when I get up. Does it make you feel old for Amanda to be 30?