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The Color Encyclopedia of Daylilies |  | Authors: Ted L. Petit, John P. Peat
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 814833
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Printing
Pages: 296
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 1
ISBN: 0881924881
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.93432
EAN: 9780881924886
ASIN: 0881924881
Publication Date: November 15, 2000
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Product Description
Daylilies have been developed into a striking array of colorful hybrids from a small group of species in the genus Hemerocallis. These parent species are discussed and pictured in this comprehensive encyclopedia, but it focuses primarily on the amazing developments that have been achieved through plant breeding. Hundreds of new daylilies are introduced each year, and no other single book describes and illustrates so many of these remarkable flowers. Close-up photographs illustrate more than 1200 daylilies, showing the detailed characteristics that hybridizers look for and work for. Each photo is accompanied by a thorough description of the daylilys color, size, bloom season, and parentage. In addition to the pictorial encyclopedia, the book offers extensive information on cultivation and breeding. It concludes with a glimpse into the future, showing new hybrids not yet introduced, plants found today only in the seedling fields of private nurseries. For experienced daylily hybridizers, the book is an invaluable reference for colors and designs that have already been created. By studying the illustrations, breeders can identify characteristics they would like to expand upon in future crosses. Gardeners at any level of experience will revel in the possibilities offered by the exquisite forms, colors, and patterns available.
Book Description
A pictorial reference showing the colors, designs, & other characteristics of many hybrids, with information on cultivation & hybridizing.
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 Love the book July 29, 2010
cynthia
Received this book and LOVE it. Filled with tons of pictures of beautiful daylilies. Spent hours going thru my lists, their pages, and my supplier's lists to see what I had and what I could buy next. Lots of fun and for me, definately worth the money!!
Just what I was looking for! October 24, 2009
Cheery (Kansas)
This book was just what I was looking for with amazing pictures and great information! I couldn't believe there were so many different daylilies and I think the authors have about captured them all. I want one of each! A truly beautiful book!
Thank You!
 A valuable addition July 19, 2008
Benjamin (UK)
This is a well written and comprehensive account of the Daylily. It opens with a Chapter describing the plant and its make up. Chapter Two discussed its History while Chapter three looks at the History of Daylily Hybridising. Chapters four through nine look at the various forms including Singles, Eyed and Patterned, Doubles, Spiders, Polytepal and Small and Miniature Daylilies. Chapter Ten considers Hybridising, Chapter Eleven Cultivation and Chapter Twelve looks at Daylilies of the Future. There are two Appendices: Additional Resources which provides details of Daylily Societies and other sources; and Sources for Daylilies which covers the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. It concludes with a Bibliography and an Index of Pictured Cultivars
An impressive book of generous size, it is illustrated throughout in colour with over 1,200 photographs, many taken by the joint authors. The text is clear and concise, and such matters as the distinction between Diploid and Tetraploid are simply explained. The selection of plants chosen for inclusion (and with so many thousands of cultivars in existence it necessarily can only be a selection), appears somewhat arbitrary other than there seeming to be a preference for broad petalled ruffled forms; it would have been informative to know what criteria were used for selection. It would also have been interesting have a chapter discussing the merits or garden worthiness of specific plants.
It is a well produced book with a clear an uncluttered presentation. Most of the cultivars are illustrated by a single bloom although a few are pictured as a clump giving an idea of the plant and its flower potential as a whole. The standard of photography is generally very good, however there are one or two photographs which are out of focus, and also a few where the lighting leaves something to be desired. However the colour reproduction, frequently a problem with Daylilies, seems for the most part and as far as I am familiar with specific cultivars, to be fairly accurate (yet consider `Elusive Dream', p 81, described as a "pale cream-pink" - yet it is illustrared as a brilliant yellow). It is a predominantly American publication and seems to make little reference to work down outside the States, similarly the list of sources outside the States is scant: only four nurseries listed for the whole of Europe (I can think of around twice that number for the UK alone).
However overall it is a valuable publication, and while any such book can only give a general overview, and with so many new cultivars appearing each year is by definition going to be dated very quickly, it brings us in terms of the history of the modern Daylily light years ahead from R W Munson's useful 1989 publication.
daylilies at their best July 8, 2008
Swoosh Flower
Ted and JP have produced a masterpiece. I can't wait for their next one.
Glorious, glorious pictures of our favorite flower.
Great Reference Book April 30, 2008
Annie (Portland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For serious Day Lily gardeners- this book is a must have for their garden book collections. My only wish now is that the authors and Timber Press will come out with a completely new and revised edition .
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