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| Here are two blooms, one from Saturday evening, the other from Sunday morning (6-30 and 7-1).
OSTERIZED is registered as 50% polymerous, but for whatever reason(s) (I have my suspicions), it only produces poly blooms about 2% of the time here, at best. Yesterday saw one of these rare blooms, which I took a picture of yesterday evening. (The bloom is slightly faded, the picture was edited to amend a broken petal, and the angle is odd because it is in a raised bed.) Despite its lack of polymerous blooms (and rebloom), I love this daylily anyway. It has lovely foliage, the blooms are always open early and well, they are a bright cheerful lemon yellow, and they are fragrant. OSTERIZED started blooming this year at the end of May, and will continue for at least a few more days.
This morning the humidity in the garden was higher than normal, and I got out there while the sky was still overcast, and I was rewarded with beautiful color on these two polymerous blooms on Richard Norris' HIP TO BE SQUARE. This daylily is described in the AHS registration as being 60% polymerous (which seems about right) and a "cream yellow pink polychrome above green throat", and that is how it usually looks here - not the gold yellow pink it appeared this morning. (Please excuse the brown foliage, and also the red flag, which I didn't even notice when I was taking the picture. The red flag is to mark an area where we need to add an extra sprinkler head to the raised bed.)
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- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 2, 12 at 7:03
| Well I can understand being focused onthe lovely blooms, not the flag in the background. Both are lovely. and I do love polys. |
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| Beautiful. Julia |
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| I really like HIP TO BE SQUARE and I also find polys to be particularly appealing. Very pretty! Alexa |
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- Posted by anniegolden z7a (My Page) on Mon, Jul 2, 12 at 9:29
| HIP TO BE SQUARE is a cute name for a poly and a beautiful bloom as well. Christine |
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| Hip To Be Square is lovely since I too like the polys. I like the form on Osterized if not the color. Yellows are my least favorite color.. Ellie |
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| The poly bloom on Osterized is lovely. In general, I don't care for polys on bagels unless they are eyed cultivars. I think they look more graceful on long petaled varieties. Debra |
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- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Mon, Jul 2, 12 at 13:14
| I think they are both gorgeous! Just gorgeous! |
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