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  • By windunwell on May 4, 2024 10:12 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Nettie Downing')
    One of hybridizer Schott Gardens, Cindy Schott's Uncle Mitchell Leichhardt's favorites. Mitchell and Ms. Wilson worked to create several hybrids.
  • By DeweyRooter (southeast Georgia - Zone 8b) on May 2, 2024 5:47 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Sweeter Side of Life')
    This is a lovely cultivar, a strong grower here in zone 8b. It also produces proliferations. Unfortunately, it is also very susceptible to rust, so I don't recommend it if you garden in the "rust zone"--unless you spray fungicides.
  • By DeweyRooter (southeast Georgia - Zone 8b) on May 2, 2024 5:34 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Little Print')
    Little Print is not a fancy daylily, but it has been a very good performer here in my 8b garden. It has increased from two to six fans in three growing seasons. It is taller than the registered height here. It is pollen fertile--I have not tried setting pods on it. You may notice that the eye differs in appearance in the posted pictures. Here its pattern has been that the eye is dark on first bloom and very pale ("washed magenta" from description) on rebloom. Most important has been its strong rust resistance. Little Print is an "oldie but goodie."
  • By DeweyRooter (southeast Georgia - Zone 8b) on May 2, 2024 4:57 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Blackberry Tart')
    This is an excellent plant, one of the most vigorous, floriferous, and rust-resistant daylilies I grow here in zone 8b. Strongly recommended!!
  • By MrsMud (Long Island - Zone 7a) on Apr 30, 2024 9:17 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Good Impression')
    Well, this is now the fourth season with Good Impression, and predictably it has developed Spring sickness for the fourth time. Sadly I have decided to cull it and replace with another cultivar.
  • By thegardendeva (Denver, Colorado - Zone 6a) on Apr 29, 2024 6:50 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Odell')
    Not registered as a rebloomer, but consistently reblooms in my Zone 6 garden.
  • By SunriseSide (Wood Co TX & Huron Co MI) on Apr 20, 2024 1:28 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Freedom Is Not Free')
    Curious that 'Freedom Is Not Free' is registered as a Tet but apparently crossed to 'Wild Rose Fandango', a Dip, to create a dip child 'Lily Farm Arachnid Orbiter'. I will note that the hybridizer had FINF listed as a Tet on his website in 2020
  • By Splendiptet (Lufkin - Zone 8b) on Mar 22, 2024 9:39 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Gigi's Love')
    Very fast multiplication, Heavy gold wire edge, Rust resistant, Vigorous large fans 6" to 8" wide midway up the fans.
  • By SunriseSide (Wood Co TX & Huron Co MI) on Mar 7, 2024 2:44 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Lady Georgia (B.O.B.)')
    Plant details may be found at https://www.missouribotanicalg...
    Based on child plants associated with this cultivar, it is a diploid
    Based on the reference link, this cultivar is a tetraploid
    I am surprised AHS let the children be listed with a unregistered daylily as a parent.

    Cultivar does not perform well in my garden; does not increase and rarely blooms. I only keep it because I am too lazy to dig it up and throw it over the fence.
  • By SunriseSide (Wood Co TX & Huron Co MI) on Mar 7, 2024 2:40 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Lady Rose (B.O.B.)')
    Notes from 2023
    4" bloom
    Season Early
    FFO 9 May
    Rebloomed 16 Jun
    Prev year notes at same location
    2022 FFO 5/12; 2021 FFO 5/20 [year of the Great Freeze in TX]
    2020 FFO 5/6 4.5" bloom 2019 FFO 5/15
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  • By SunriseSide (Wood Co TX & Huron Co MI) on Mar 6, 2024 6:10 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Lady Scarlet')
    2024: available from at least the following sellers
    Oakes
    Ogden Station
    both sources cite a 6" bloom
    Garden notes:
    blooms every year, has minimal increase, pod fertile as I have 4 unregistered seedlings, at least 1 of which is dormant.
    blooms are only 5" when I measure early morning...maybe they open more later
    5" blooms are typical here when I measure
    season is early-mid: FFO dates--5/20/19, 5/13/20, 5/18/21, 5/12/22, 5/19/23 all in same location.
    Bought in 2001, apparent year of introduction.
  • By Seedfork (Enterprise, Al. 36330 - Zone 8b) on Feb 11, 2024 1:53 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Michael Bennett')
    This daylily is shown to be registered as spatulate, I do not see that look at all in the photos presented here. Does any one see this daylily as showing the spatulate form?
  • By Sidegate (Gwinnett County, GA - Zone 8a) on Feb 8, 2024 11:54 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Professor Huey Long')
    This plant was named in memory of Dr. Huey Long, who had a 37 year career in academia. He served at Florida Southern College, Florida State University, University of Georgia and University of Oklahoma as well as visiting professorships in Canada, England, Germany, and Sweden.
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  • By adknative (Eagle Bay, New York - Zone 3b) on Jan 27, 2024 6:32 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Little Mucha Minto')
    One of only (2) daylilies I have lost over many years (here in zone 3) that I believe failed to survive due to lack of cold hardiness. Treated it precisely the same as all others coming from a southern garden: planted in spring (about an inch deeper than northern garden suppliers), and mulched it well. It struggled to adapt even over our short, cool summer and did not survive its first winter here. Would not recommend for cold climate gardens.
  • By SunriseSide (Wood Co TX & Huron Co MI) on Jan 26, 2024 3:49 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Benchmark')
    for parentage of Benchmark, see
    'Daylily Journal' Vol 50 No.1 p 37
    "TABLE I
    THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF
    THE MUNSON TETRAPLOID PROGRAM"
  • By CiCi (Burlington, NC - Zone 7b) on Jan 25, 2024 2:40 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Walter Jablonski')
    While Walter Jablonski may not be the most beautiful daylily in a garden, it is a wonderful daylily. I wanted something different and have not had a year yet to disappoint. Walter Jablonski is a very prolific bloomer and I always look forward to an abundance of flowers. I truly enjoy the rich color and deep veining.
  • By adknative (Eagle Bay, New York - Zone 3b) on Jan 24, 2024 7:06 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Yankee Pinstripes')
    'Yankee Pinstripes' is noted as blooming early midseason. 2023 was the first year for it in my zone 3 gardens and the FFE was on 24 Jul ... it was still flowering steadily on the 10th of September. That is a minimum of eight weeks of buds and blooms ... not listed as reblooming, but I think it must have sent up rebloom scapes. (?) I will be watching for that in the coming seasons.
  • By adknative (Eagle Bay, New York - Zone 3b) on Jan 23, 2024 12:47 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Eviction Notice')
    I have noticed that 'Eviction Notice' has more of a raspberry pink tone earlier in the day than later on. The colour does not 'change' so much as it seems to deepen slightly towards the red end of the spectrum by afternoon, particularly on days with a lot of sun.
  • By adknative (Eagle Bay, New York - Zone 3b) on Jan 22, 2024 6:01 AM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Singing in the Wind')
    'Singing in the Wind' is registered as very late and I will attest to that, as it blooms well here in mid-September. Although there does not seem to be a category for daylilies whose buds survive frost well, 'Singing in the Wind' will continue to bloom after we begin hitting nights that drop below freezing. For northern gardeners who want to extend the season of blooms, I would recommend this daylily for its beauty and its hardy nature. And, yes - it's fragrant.
  • By adknative (Eagle Bay, New York - Zone 3b) on Dec 16, 2023 1:06 PM concerning plant: Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Higgledy-Piggledy')
    'Higgledy-Piggledy' exhibits the gray-lavender tones I most associate with Trahlyta, as seen clearly in the single form FFE I posted from Aug 2023. Note that it doubles 40%, though the double is striking when seen. This is its first summer in garden, will look forward to next year's flowers.
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