Daylilies of North Carolina is the hybriding garden of Bobby Baxter that is at the forefront of the advanced development of polymerous daylilies. Located in Wake Forest, NC.

Bobby Baxter, 1620 Wait Avenue, Wake Forest, NC 27587           phone: (919 ) 569-5514          email: bobby@daylily.net

Baxter Design Services... I design, build, and maintain custom websites based on your needs and goals at very reasonable rates. Some of my clients are: Carolina Daylilies, Cottage Gardens, Don Herr Daylilies, Homeplace Gardens, Ledgewood Gardens, Rainbow Daylily Farm, Sterrett Gardens, Walnut Hill Gardens, Water Mill Gardens

 
 
H. 'Reaching New Heights' a 2012 introduction by Bobby Baxter

H. 'Reaching New Heights'
(Baxter, 2011)

H. 'Reaching New Heights' is not only one of my daylilies. "Reaching New Heights" is also a motivational statement and goal of Daylilies of North Carolina.

As a flower, H. 'Reaching New Heights', registered at 68", is one of the tallest daylilies of all time. The AHS Registration Database shows 43 registered cultivars of 68" or higher, and only 10 registered cultivars of 74" or higher. In 2010 & 2011, it exceeded 74" in my garden.

Motivationally, "Reaching New Heights" guides my hybridizing and passion for the daylily. As the leading hybridizer of high percentage (over 51%) polymerous daylilies with more than 20 registrations I am also an advocate of encouraging the promotion and advanced development of the form. By pricing my polymerous daylilies affordably and sharing information freely, I believe more daylily fanciers will grow & enjoy the polys, and more gardeners will be hybridizing them.

I also challenge hybridizers of the spider form of hemerocallis to work toward "eight-legged" spiders as genuine arachnids have.

     

Ethical Daylily Image Editing

I have initiated adiscussion on various daylily forums regarding ethical methods of editing daylily images with software such as Adobe Photoshop. I hope to establish a consensus of opinion on different areas of focus. I also plan to draft and post my own "Acceptable Standards of Editing" that I will employ on my personal Daylilies of North Carolina website and those websites of my daylily garden and nursery clients.

Image Editing Focus #1

If you ever took a college level ethics course, or overheard a conversation of daylily folk discussing image editing, then you know opinions are all over the place when it comes to "ethics in editing." I hope through a series of discussions relating to various forms of editing daylily images that a consensus may appear relating to the various types of editing that can be achieved using software programs such as Adobe Photoshop. 

To start this first topic of discussion, I ask that you view this image at full size if possible. The image displays a side-by-side comparison of removing certain artifacts from the background of a daylily picture. Objects that were edited/removed from the picture were brown foliage, a dead scape, two daylily markers, and some foliage "imperfections." I also adjusted the shadowing of the picture to show greater depth of field in the foliage to make the background more visible.

I personally feel that the type of editing displayed in this example is acceptable for the purpose of marketing a daylily for websites, internet auctions, catalogs, and the AHS Daylily Journal, etc. Remember, this a discussion for the sharing of opinions and ideas. You don't have to agree with me, or others, on any or all aspects that are being discussed. However, let's bring out the best in ourselves to provide an educational, inspiring, and comfortable atmosphere as we delve in to the world of Ethical Daylily Image Editing.

If you wish to send me your comments privately please email them to: Ethical Daylily Image Editing #1

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