Betts' Garden

	Hi! I'm Betts Daume, Brush Prairie, WA. My husband, Jon, and I live on five rural acres, with two dogs and six cats. We garden in a large area, maybe an acre or a little more. All of it is ornamental gardening. About 12 years ago, I became interested in daylilies and now have around 550. I was up to 650 but am decreasing the amount of daylilies and replacing them with interesting perennial or shrub companions. It makes for far more interesting flower beds. A main interest of mine is photography. We replaced our digital camera this summer with the Nikon CoolPix 995. All the pictures on this page were taken with it.Each morning during daylily season, I head out to take pictures with Hans and Molly. Soon three cats join us, Bobbie, Georgia and Zoe. They trail along after me as we go from the driveway bed down to the hillside beds. They check out whatever they want to while I take pictures. Then we head into the house to put the pictures on the computer monitor to see what we have. Next step is to send out images to people on my Image List. I like the feedback I get back from these people. I print out the pictures that are favorites of mine, and display them in simple clip frames.
		Hansie getting acquainted with a resident kitty in another garden.

	Bobbie, Hansie, Molly and Georgia more or less following me.	FUN FLING

	WINDMILL YELLOW with VERA BIAGLOW and Veronica Sunny Border Blue	DENA MARIE'S SISTER

	OPEN HEARTH	RED SUSPENDERS and shasta daisies

VICTORIAN DAYS	Shasta daisy	TELLER OF TALES and sedum FROSTY MORN

SLENDER LADY	INDIAN RIPPLE	Georgia and the mean kitty

These pictures were taken with a Nikon CoolPix 995. I take my pictures in the highest resolution it has, but I resize them to a smaller kb size for this webpage and to send to people via email.

Updated 8-10-01

			Trade Mart A Trade Mart for email robin members is held twice a year, spring and fall (August and January). Last August, Rebecca Board set up a website for traders to use. It was MAH-VELOUS! Here are some guidelines as to how you can be a trader. Any robin member can join in. If you would like to join, send in your name to me. Put something in the subject line that I'll note. Since we don't have neon flashing text for that, how about this: Trade Mart --please add my name. Send to BettsPNW@aol.com I'll keep the list of names and email addresses of all of you who want to be traders. Rebecca and I will use that to correspond with you. Today is August 10. You may submit your name to me between now and August 17. We then CLOSE THE TRADEMART to more traders. Trading will begin August 20. You will be able to go to the website in the days before August 20 and enter your lists of daylilies to trade and daylilies you would like to acquire. On August 20, when the site opens, then you will be able to view the sites of other people too. You can browse the lists of others and see what looks enticing. Then you can write directly to that person and tell them you'd like to get that plant in trade. Hansie's email message might be like this: Dear Molly Puppy, I see that you have SHAKA ZULU for trade. I would like to get that! Do I have something you are interested in for trade? From Hans Big Guy. Then Molly responds (she is excited because Hans has something she has been wanting for some time): Hi Hans Big Guy, I see that you have LAVENDER LION, and I would like to get that for SHAKA ZULU. How about a triple fan of LL for a single fan of SZ? From your gardening friend, Molly Puppy To keep the transaction simple, Molly Puppy and Hans Big Guy are going to send just one cultivar each, but YOU, my fellow gardener, will surely want to make it more interesting by expanding the number of plants. Okay, here are some FAQ: Q. What about rust? A. You and your trading partner need to talk about that and decide what to do. You should ask if they have or have had rust, what they did, what the plants are like now. It is up to you to decide. Q. When do we send the trade plants? A. You and your trading partner work out the dates. Trading will go on for weeks this fall. Q. I don't have the latest daylilies. Think anyone will want what I have? A. Others will be in the same boat. I bet you will find a taker. Q. How do we figure the value? A. I have found that it works well for one partner to figure the trade values for all the plants involved in the trade, his and yours. That way, if he figures high, he will figure high on both your plants and his. Q. How do I know I will get nice plants? How do I know I will GET the plants? A. Good question! You trust that your trade partner will be honorable and send you BLOOMING SIZE PLANTS. We stress that often enough! But this year, we also have a Feedback Forum. IF THERE IS UNFAVORABLE FEEDBACK ABOUT A PARTICULAR TRADER, YOU CAN READ IT HERE. 95 out of 100 traders are gems. You'll be proud of what you send that person, and opening their boxes will be like Christmas when you were a kid! Everyone's happy. We'd all like to avoid trading with the 5% of the traders who send weenie plants or don't send anything at all. Q. What now? A. You can be preparing your Have List (plants to trade) and your Wish List (no explaination necessary!). Please limit each one to however many plants Rebecca says, which I believe will be 25. When a plant is gone, you can replace its name with another. Q. How should I list them? A. Like this: EXOTIC CANDY* (Stamile, P. 93) (dates are guesses be me.) GIDDY GO ROUND (Whittaker 88) SATANIC MAJESTY* (Hanson 92) Note that the cultivar is in caps, the * for tetraploidy is after the name, the hybridizer and year of intro are in parentheses.