I've had Black Mountain since 2016. It has not done well for me and I'm not sure why. It is in a raised bed with several other daylilies that all have done better. It has only bloomed three years since I've had it. While it is not crowded by the other daylilies I'm tempted to dig it up and place it in a container to see if that helps. It worked with Carpenter Shavings which has performed very well since being placed in a grow bag. It last bloomed in 2020 so I'm hoping it blooms this year as the fans look good.
I purchased Bella Nova in April 2020. It bloomed that year and every year since except 2023. It does bloom for me midseason rather than the registered mid-late season. Last year was a terrible year for my midseason blooming daylilies. We had a drought early in the season and I was unable to give supplemental water. Almost all of my midseason bloomers went dormant. I thought many had died. This year it appears to have rebounded nicely. I expect it to bloom well this year with our abundant rainfall this Spring.
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.
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."
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.