Hemerocallis fulva var.
kwanso 26 August, 2001, Sunningdale
The above 'photograph'
was not taken with a camera, but the plant was scanned on
a flatbed scanner. (Visit my scanner
pages to get instructions on this technique) Normally
the digital camera is very good on colours, but this scanned
picture shows much better fidelity than ones taken with
my camera.
Kwanso probably
came from the Chinese Hsuan Ts'ao which literally means
forget your worries (it is a medicinal plant) and is their
common name equivalent to our common name day-lily. Normally
I don't like many double flowers, but in this case it does
extend the time before the flower fades. There are several
other doubles, Hemerocallis 'Flore Pleno', H.
'Gay Music', H. 'King Alfred' and H. 'Kwanso
Variagata' (originally called 'Kwanso foliis vatiegatis')
the latter having a white edge to the leaf (Hemerocallidaceae
family).
Plant Portraits through the year
The
plants are arranged in alphabetical order with the date of the photograph
after it.
