All of your suggestions for clear, colorfast, and eye-catching colors have been so helpful for those of us who are trying to find garden candidates. I've saved red till almost-last because my searches have led me to believe it may be a somewhat elusive color in daylilies. Am I mistaken, or are there fewer reds around?

The best red... Really red... That I have grown is Holly Dancer.

Others I like are from Vic Santa Lucia or Van Sellers. They worked a lot with BIG APPLE and BILL FALL. Both of those are good reds. I have their Cherokee Star, and I like it well enough that I have kept it a long time, over ten years.

Some of Jamie Gossards go back to Holly Dancer, and tet Holly Dancer. He has some nice reds from those crosses. He is a few generations into it by now. A friend grows Megatron, and I always notice it.

So many of the reds I've tried turn out to be some version of rose red, but I do have some that I believe are true reds.

HOME OF THE FREE - Love this one! I thought TALLADEGA would be this color from the hybridizer's photo, but it turned out to be a deep rose red. And I'm very pleased with HOME OF THE FREE!


DRY HEAT by our own Lyle! Not the best picture or bloom, unfortunately, but it comes from Phoenix so you know the meaning of the name, and the plant has been doing great in our heat. I hope Lyle chimes in here with a better picture of this fantastic daylily!


CARY GRANT - I received this as a gift plant and I love it!


MELISSA BEGNAUD - This picture is actually from my visit to Maryott's last summer, but I loved it so much that I purchased one this summer. I can't quite remember, but Melissa may have a hint of rose in her -- totally forgivable in this gorgeous daylily IMHO!


CORRALITOS ROSE - One of Bill Maryott's recent introductions that I really like, and there is very little rose (if any) in it to my eye.


RENDITION - Another recent Maryott intro


COMING ALIVE - New 2012 intro from Maryott's -- and all of these last three were gift plants, if you can believe it!



And in the deeper red range:

FABULOUS FRIEDA - Love love love this one! And I'm including the last totally fuzzy picture because the true color in the shade is close to that.



EMPEROR'S ROYAL RED



And two of Grace Stamile's little Broadway's:

BROADWAY PLAYER


BROADWAY BLOODSPORT


And two that are quite different:

WISPY RAYS


DOUBLY HOT by Bill Maryott - This one turns more orange as the day progresses.

Unfortunately, my camera does not do reds very well so please excuse the bad pics.

CHICAGO FIRECRACKER


JAPANESE BRICADE(more of a rosy red)



MAXFIELD PARRISH



ROSES IN SNOW



SPACECOAST CRANBERRY KID this one is more red than cranberry in my garden



SPIDERMAN



STARTLE



VELVET EYES



SPIDER TO THE FLY



CHARMING HEART



FIREWORKS DISPLAY



LANCELOT OF FRANCE more red than picture shows



LIGHTHOUSE ROSE BOUQUET



OPEN HEARTH



RED RUEBEN STEVENS



RUBY STELLA

Love your LIGHTHOUSE ROSE BOUQUET. Cindy!

Thanks Betty!!! Sure would like to try and cross it with Emerald Starburst. Actually did try but they didn't take.

Here are a few of mine
Bayard Lombard a late bloomer


Change of Heart


Chicago Apache


Cleopatra's Jewel


Cranberry Cove


Firestorm


French Twist


Jim Cooper Memorial


Joey Langdon


Miss Kitty


Seize The Night


Small World Jazz Music


Sergeant Major


Vesuvian

Apache War Dance


Bill Fall


Cherokee Star


Passion for Red


Sanford Time Out


Springfield Clan


Thin Man


When I Dream


Young Planet


Zorros Blade

SAMAR STAR FIRE
EXECUTIVE DECISION
84-11-1
84-11-2

Betty, I love CARY GRANT, FABULOUS FRIEDA and HOME OF THE FREE, nice edge
Cindy, I really like the looks of FIREWORKS DISPLAY
Kim, I've been looking for some later bloomers besides yellow and BAYARD LOMBARD looks like a winner and I like the looks of VESUVIAN
Debra, APACHE WAR DANCE is a classic beauty!

AEON FLUX - this plant has great substance and a beautiful edge, very happy to have it in my garden


THERMOPYLAE


LUSTY LEALAND an oldie but goodie


RED VOLUNTEER another oldie but goodie


LATE TO THE PARTY a beautiful clear color, a keeper for me. I love the white throat


BETTY FORD this one really glows in the garden


BROADWAY VALENTINE

I'm glad we have this thread going for the pure reds -- and there sure are some beauties here! BETTY FORD looks particularly vibrant and gorgeous, and I love the deep velvety texture of VESUVIAN.

I grew FIREWORKS DISPLAY years before Dottie named it. It has always been purple here. I would not have thought of it as red. I bought it as a non-selected seedling from the hybridizer sometime around 1985. I grew it for years, and finally talked her into coming and seeing it in a clump at my house. I gave her half of it back and she named it. We always called it - garden name - Dottie's Fireworks, so when she named it she kept the Fireworks part. It has been a FANTASTIC parent for me. If you grow it and you hybridize, try crossing it into things with Trahlyta in it.

I guess you are right Juli, it is a little more purple than red

Found a few images of reds in my folders that I don't think anyone has mentioned yet.

FITZASUARUS wonderful spidery blooms



MYSTIC PIZZA great UF



JELLY ROLL MORTON one of the clearest raspberry reds



REINDEER ANTLERS new this year, great true red



DRAGON KING great substance and color



LONG LEGGED LAP DANCER a fun pleated red



WE DARE TO BARE another nicely pleated red

Very nice Char!!!

I've got some reds, some better than others - and some that didn't even bother to bloom this year

Charles Johnston, one of my very favorites, but it stayed pretty short and stumpy this year


Calypso Dancer


Westbourne Valentines Day - started blooming within a week of receiving this summer, and even with cutting most of the scapes, it kept sending more up. It's redder than the photo seems


Seedling 11D-2 (Blazing Lampsticks X Papa Smurf)


Wandering Wings


Same seedling as above. Tried to move photo up, couldn't cut & paste and have it work.


Highland Lord


Dewey Roquemore


NOID, from our cottage, this is an ancient (50+ years old) dip, that once had a name, but has been lost through the years. It glows, and it too, is redder than the photo seems


Slightly blurry August Flame


Best In Class, new this summer from Maryott's


I tried not to post any that have already been posted, because I have a LOT of reds (my first love), some are NOIDS, and many are older ones.

And Chicago Apache is one of my very favorites, and deserve all the accolades it gets ~Jan

Calypso Dancer seems to have settled in nice Jan. I totally forgot to post a pic of mine so here it is along with a couple others I forgot.

CALYPSO DANCER


PIRATE LORD



FIRESTORM



EDITH SLIGER



BROADMORE RED

I just LOVE Firestorm, it's one of my favorites. But I also call it a "glowing reddish orange" - because it truly does glow

Calypso Dancer was new last year and then it got moved several times over the summer, so I was pleased just to see blooms. ~Jan

I don't have many reds, but here are a few.

Dot

Talladega


Santa's Little Helper, it looks redder to me in person.


Crimson Sheen is my reddest red

I agree with Char on Mystic Pizza. I'm a big Cochenour fan.



A fav double red is Amanda's LIttle Red Shoes



New to me this year and it blew me away with it's clear, intense color was Ruby Grandeur