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 ) 624-5403          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:  Cottage Gardens,  Homeplace Gardens, Ledgewood Gardens, Sterrett Gardens, Walnut Hill Gardens, Water Mill Gardens

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

H. 'Secret Agent Babe'

H. 'Secret Agent Babe' is nearly 100% polymerous with 7½" blooms. In the picture above the blooms are 9 inches!! Imagine how big that beast is that is hovering over all the "babes!" Big just keeps getting bigger at Daylilies of North Carolina where size matters, too!

Daylilies of North Carolina is the leading hybridizing garden on the planet for the advanced development of the polymerous form of Hemerocallis. We continue to march forward with unequaled diversity of size, color, form, substance, rebloom, and all desired characteristics of polymerous daylilies!!

In addition to leading the Polymerous Revolution, our tetraploid breeding continues reaching new heights with incredible clarity of color, vibrance, and form. We are proud of our daylilies and strive to create flowers worthy of your garden.

Why multiple images of our flowers?

Redefining Genetics

At Daylilies of North Carolina we are endeavoring to show multiple pictures of each flower on "individual cultivar pages." The picture above shows the cultivar page for H. 'Redefining Genetics' with 18 different images so that you can see the flower under different lighting, blooming, and environmental conditions. We do not want to post one "cover girl" picture that can misrepresent our flowers.

This website is a continuous work in progress and we started the individual cultivar pages with our own introductions. Please be patient as we continue the process by adding galleries of all the flowers growing at Daylilies of North Carolina.

     

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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