After the disappointment of 'Rosy Returns' which almost seemed to look like an insipid color in the garden, never branched well, and didn't rebloom especially well, I was skeptical but decided to give 'Dynamite Returns' a try anyway. I bought a potted one at a garden center under its trademark name of Passionate Returns.
When it flowered, I was duly impressed with the beautiful rich color, its nicely formed flowers, its compact growth, well-branched scapes for their height, and compact foliage. A perfect edging daylily, as Dianne
@adknative reported.👍🏻 Like Justine
@Hembrain I found it easily fertile and crossed it with many possibilities for lovely seedlings.
I promised some fans of it in a trade last spring and that was when I ran into problems. I dug the clump that looked perfectly healthy, with rich blue-green leaves emerged 3". When I started pulling apart the fans, I discovered that all but one were badly damaged by spring sickness! I didn't have enough to trade.
Fortunately I had purchased one from Oakes because I wanted to increase my stock. It had 3 fans. I sent those to my friend.
I am not sure what I did with the damaged fans. I may have tossed them in a pot and covered them with potting mix. I'll look around when I can get outside to see if any survived.
So, I'm sorry to report that Dynamite Returns is prone to spring sickness here. Looking back, sometimes I thought the clump did not have as many scapes as I expected. Spring sickness reduces scape production on affected fans and can eliminate them completely. I've observed this in the experiment I'm conducting on SS which has 84 clumps of So Lovely. It's one of the more prone ones in general. I'm tracking the occurrence of SS in the fans and the scape production from each in the summer. Now I may add Dynamite Returns to my study!
Pat