The Color Encyclopedia of Daylilies (ISBN 0881924881)

Book Description:
A pictorial reference showing the colors, designs, & other characteristics of many hybrids, with information on cultivation & hybridizing.

super product, very satisfied:
I was very pleased with the book I received. It was good quality with no defects. The price was reasonable for the great quality product I received. I am happy with this purchase.

Great Reference Book:
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 .

daylilies at their best:
Ted and JP have produced a masterpiece. I can't wait for their next one. Glorious, glorious pictures of our favorite flower.

Daylily book review:
This is a very good daylily book. Loads of beautiful pics and they are in order by color, so if you arent quite sure of some of your daylilies, as was my case, this is a great help.

A valuable addition:
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.