Re: LA: Red Echo, LA's etc

Afternoon all... 

Earlier, Walter Moores wrote:  "RED ECHO is one of my very favorite LA's and 
always wins a blue ribbon when entered in a show.  It has perfect zigzag 
branching and can open five flowers at once perfectly displayed on one stalk. 
 >>

That may be part of the problem...  I've never seen it grow upright.  It only 
grows horizontal here at the Poore-House...   Thus, I never have zig-zag 
branching on RED ECHO.  It has eradicated everything else out of that bed 
though, except for a small bit of ACADIAN MISS.  

Walter continued:  << Probably, your preference is with the newer, frilly 
LA's with all the bugles, whistles, etc. that don't look like LA's anymore.  
>> 

I don't think so...  I think I like all forms.  I definitely like the ones 
that come all the way out of the foliage to bloom and don't try to rosebud in 
the foliage.  I think my problem is that I had a bad experience with the 
color brown and RED ECHO really looks awfully brownish to me.  I grew up 
backwards...  Should have been in the Bluebirds and not the Brownies...  Then 
I made the switch (to get rid of that awful Brownie uniform) and went to Camp 
Fire when I actually could have kept on with the GS as the color green wasn't 
so bad...  :-)  

I get a good chance to see all kinds and forms and new ones and old ones 
thanks to the fact I live in such close proximity to Perry Dyer.  And, no one 
grows them any better.  I like the really tailored forms.  Some of my older 
favorites that I grow are: THIS I LOVE, SINFONIETTA, HURRICANE PARTY, NOBLE 
MOMENT, FREDDIE BOY, etc.  I have a couple of more new ones about to open in 
KAY NELSON and  DAZZLING STAR.  I had a bunch more but they seem to have 
gotten crowded out like SATCHMO.  The Louisianas here get so full of gusto, 
they will enlarge the perimeters of your whole bed if you don't get the ax 
out after them...  

And Walter said:  <<    I would love to hear your comments on BAYOU BANDIT.>>

Don't think I know it.  Saw and/or revisited BAYOU CLASSIC this weekend and 
about threw a fit...  I love green and purple together.  Trying to get 
daylily hybridizers to start making dark purple daylilies with neon green.  
Under the Will Rogers Exhibition Center overhead florescent lights, the style 
arms on BC absolutely glowed a neon green and it was the "prettiest flowered" 
Louisiana in the house.  I'll scout out my color catalogs and see if I can 
find BB anywhere...  If not, I'm sure PD grows it and I hope to get down 
there tomorrow.  I'm anxious to see what he'll have for this Sunday's show.  
If my LA's and Spurias don't slow down, I'll not have a thing.  The beardeds 
have not taken kindly to the 3  90 degree days we've had this week.  It hit 
over 100 down in southwest Oklahoma on Monday.  

Kath in OKC.... =^.^= 

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