Seedfork, I'm on the east coast of central FL. Usually daylily seasons are rock solid here. They start blooming in March and continue to October/November. Not this year--I'm not even keeping track of when they bloom and their budcounts. This is a distorted season that won't compare to any of the last 10 years. That being said. I'm not aware of anyone who keeps track of how many times a daylily blooms in a day, a week, or a month. Monumental task even for me with only 80 daylilies. For last year I can tell you who bloomed first, when each daylily had their first bloom, how many times they bloomed (from spent scapes), how many scapes they had and total blooms for the year. I do that because I'm anal. This year, scapes are down, budcount is down, it's downright depressing and I'm not keeping track. Oh well.

The bad news is that a clump that blooms for me 250-280 times in one year, may not do that for you. It depending on rain, fertilizer, soil, and your attitude toward them and their attitude towards you. We can't predict that my best bloomer will be your best bloomer. Just can't happen.

I'm sorry I can't help, but it's been a sucko year. I understand your request, but I don't know who keeps track of what cultivar so that they can recommend it.

I can tell you what happened here in 2013 and 2012, but can't tell what daylilies bloomed everyday. Some did, most didn't.

I wish you luck in your quest, but daylilies aren't like other plants. They are different. That's why they fit so well in FL, because FL is do different.

Arlene - What do you attribute your lousy daylily blooming to?

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Well, I am not much of a record keeper myself. But I did note the first flower to bloom on most of my daylilies for the first time ever this year, I don't have that many. I also happened to notice that one bloomed much longer than the others, and that it had not missed a day that I had noticed, yesterday was the last day for consistent bloom. I try to get out in the garden every day, but that is not always possible There are more buds developing so there will be more blooms, just not consistant bloom. So if you walk out into your garden and write down the FFO and three months later you notice that plant is still churning out the blooms, weather you have records or not, let me know. It doesn't have to be officially recorded, but I noticed that most of my daylilies quit blooming after a very short period, and I can't tell you how long. I am just asking for the outstanding ones people almost have to notice because they are such outperforming, and if they have all those records that is even better. And I am also interested in learning if instant re-bloom, re-bloom, bud building account for the length of bloom on those specific varieties, if known.
What happened in 2012 and 2013 would be just as interesting to me as what happened in 2014, I would love to find daylilies that show up year after year as top long term performers. I am new to daylilies and I grow them for the garden, so I would like to avoid buying ones that are beautiful but just have a few blooms over the entire season, I am not interested in those at all.
But, I find it interesting that we have had a similar untypical "suco" year, something we have not seen here for at least ten years also, so maybe the ones that do well there are not such long shots to do well here also. I love to think that this is a really bad year, not so much for daylilies but my roses have just been pathic after the first flowering, not much to show since then. However, my Hostas are having the best year ever.
I do think here in zone 8b (I do realize USDA zones are not that meaningful for daylilies)that most of the daylilies that do well in your area would also be fine here, maybe not all but the great majority.My blooming season for daylilies is not all that much different from yours, naturally yours is some longer. Like I said earlier I have only a few daylilies (comparatively speaking) so not a lot of very early or very late blooming plants so if I expand my varieties I could extend my season a little. Looking back at last years pictures I had blooms starting in late March though late September. That was not the case for the early part of the year this year, I did not have my first blooms this year till near the end of April.
So I would love to have any Daylily names from you that have bloomed for an estimated time of a month or more, and any stats you did happen to keep, and I think a lot of others could benefit from them also.

I'd enjoy seeing which ones you think are good bloomers, too, Arlene. Plants from similar UDSA zones is one of the ways that we can try out varieties that may best match our own climate needs. We may still differ between gardens, and weather may vary year to year, but it is understood that "our mileage may vary" when it comes to mentioning them or trying those that have done well for others. If you have some that are persevering even through a difficult growing season for you - even more interesting.

Seedfork - The daylily blooming times you quote from the other site were mine. I will tell you we had very unusual conditions in Nashville that year - a flood the first week of May 2010 that resulted from 13 inches of rain over a two-day period. Those cultivars are long blooming, but I don't think they've bloomed that long since then. Edge of Your Seat is a terrific rebloomer and my best rebloomer this year, putting up four instant rebloom scapes. Some years it has three cylcles of bloom, but I doubt this will be one of them because we had almost no rain in May or June, and I did not do a great deal of supplemental watering because I had to be out of town quite a bit with a sick relative. I can tell you Edge of Your Seat has been blooming continuously since June 13, and the scapes still have 6-8 buds to go. Uninhibited also bloomed well and rebloomed, although I do not have the date of its ffo. Bella Sera and Adamas had very poor bud count this year and have not rebloomed. I Remember You bloomed for 36 days, and has not sent up any rebloom scapes. Royal Jester has just started last week. It has a bud count of 18-20 this year. Others that have bloomed for up to 60 days in the past are Ruby Lipstick, Blushed With Emerald, Wonder of It All, Moonlight Sail, and Stealth Bomber. In my opinion what makes optimum conditions is plenty of rain in late April and early May for scape formation.

Debra

shive1,
Thanks for that info I have starred that post for reference. I accept that different plants may do well one year and not the next but it also seems there are a few that are often stand outs the majority of the years and I like having a few of those to choose from.Anything that blooms thirty days or more during a season is a plus in my book. Yes 2010 was an unusual year for wet weather, but was it 2011 without any winter almost , 2012 pretty normal and the winter of 2013 and spring of 2014 just completely off the chart?
So I guess what I am saying is with the different weather some will still be outstanding compared to the others and those are the ones I am looking for.
We have to accept that no matter what the weather or the conditions a large majority of daylilies will never make the list for longest continuous blooming, it just is not in them, I would guess 90 per cent or more. So that just leaves over 7000(based on no facts) to select the best for longest blooming from, if we just consider the registered ones. Maybe only one percent would actually ever make the all time longest continuous blooming list, anyone out there have any data on that?
Thanks for that reply, and glad you had such a great season with such wet weather. That reminds me how often I have read that water is the key to daylily success, I have some daylilies presently planted in a bog area and am developing more beds there, so maybe I will have very long blooming daylilies with a constant supply of water.

OK, I'm looking at my notebook for 2013. Last year's spring rains were spotty, not really dry, but not a lot of rain either.

BIG RED WAGON (Stamile 2008) FFO was April 22 and last bloom was July 29, total of 52 blooms
BUDDY'S LAURA (Hall 2011) FFO was May 23 and last bloom was September 13 (new for me the fall before) total of 87 blooms
DEBARY CANARY (Stamile 2007) FFO April 11 and last bloom was August 6, total of 224 blooms
HOT GOSSIP (C. Rogers, 2006) FFO April 14 and last bloom July 8, total of 103 blooms
JEDI BRENDA SPANN (Wedgeworth 1990) FFO April 18 and last bloom August 1, total of 128 blooms
LAUGHING FEATHER (N. Roberts 2003) FFO June 21 and last bloom October 13, total of 228 blooms
LAUGHING SKIES (Stamile 2004) FFO April 10 and last bloom August 6, total of 186 blooms
ORLANDO TRUFFLE (Kirchhoff 2005) FFO April 6 and last bloom July 23, total 107 blooms
SPACECOAST DARK OBSESSION (Kinnebrew 2009) FFO April 16 and last bloom August 3, total 164 blooms

That looks to be the best of the best for 2013. About this year .... that long, cool spring that humans liked wasn't good for the daylilies, apparently.
They started blooming a month late and within 3 or 4 weeks the temperatures zoomed to 85-90 degrees and the plants actually started to look the
same was they do in August--ratty. Now that they aren't blooming much, most of the plants have recovered but the daylily bloom season was
disappointing.

I always record FFO on my daylilies so I am checking my log to see which are still blooming that started in June. The following have bloomed almost a month or over a month:

Brushed By Bluebirds
Calypso Dancer
Custard Candy
Galaxy Explosion
Happy Returns
Heavenly Harmony
Jacki Kropf
Japanese Brocade
Kate Carpenter
Leroy
Laughing Clown
Lily Munster
Howdy/Magic Dawn
Mokan Butterfly
Moonlit Caress
Picket Fences
Fantasy Montage
Pirate's Promise
Raspberry Candy
Siloam Double Classic
Small Gesture
Stella D'Oro
Thomas Lee (always reblooms)
Vampire Lestat
When Spirits Unite
Wisest of Wizards

Thanks, Arlene for your reply. I am in Sebastian and mine pretty much bloomed as they have in the past. We had a warm winter here this year and mine started blooming in May. I have some seedlings blooming now. I've never had any bloom earlier than the beginning of May. Apparently none of mine are "early" bloomers. But so far I only had 1 rebloomer daylily. So ... With all this rain, it has kept the temps down a bit so far this summer. But I know what August and September is typically like. Too bad mosquitoes come with all this rain.

Impressive total bloom count on many of yours from last year!!! I am jealous!

Cindy - Are those from the original scape or reblooming?

I was not aware of the actual normal blooming period of daylilies when I posted this thread, and I have just found a study showing what it is. I was amazed to find that the range in the length of bloom time was so large for the different times.
http://www.allamericandaylilie...
"Here’s what we’ve learned in the last 12 years. The average daylily tested will give you two to three weeks of bloom; top performers, on the other hand, will range from 90 days in Zone 4 to nearly 300 days in Zone 9. This is our advice to growers and buyers alike. “Look for a daylily that will bloom for 60% to 90% of the overall bloom period"

Seedfork, I think that 300 day number is a gross exaggeration--that's nearly 10 months from a single cultivar!! I do some really long bloomers in my garden. Some have reached 5 months, but 10??? The plant would probably die after producing the energy to bloom for that length of time. Your best bet is to focus on EERe (extra early rebloomers ), MRe (mid season rebloomers) and LRe (late rebloomers). With that mix of daylilies, your bloom season should be maxed but it probably won't be 10 months. I've had 8 months of bloom in the garden and I thought that was wonderful!! They started in very early March and ended in late October. That requires no frost during the winter.

Look for the Popularity Polls on the AHS website to find out what daylilies people grow in your region.

I think the All American people are seriously overselling their unregistered cultivars.

Well, I do agree that 10 months sounded extreme, but they did the research over a 12 year period I think it stated, so I just accepted that. The main thing I took away from the article was to look for a bloom time of 60 to 90 percent of the bloom cycle from great performers. So here (zone 8b) I should expect to get 30 to 60 days of blooms pretty consistently I would think on a very conservative estimate..

VICTORIAN LACE started blooming about June 10th and is still blooming here in So. Indiana despite my having set a lot of pods on it.
HOT PINK FURY started blooming June 2 and bloomed until July 20th, with so many blooms and 3 or 4 blooms at a time. HPF makes quite a show in the garden.

Verna Habermel
So. Central Indiana
zone 5/6

I have Savanna Debutante, lots of blooms and has bloomed well over a month with still an occassional opening in temps 90+

American Splendor starts blooming in mid to late April here, and now, at the end of July, is on at least its third round of bloom. I fully expect there to be at least one more round.

One of my unknowns, Has 25-30 blooms per scape. Started flowering in late May, and is still going and producing more scapes.

Thanks for the first article seed. It was quite a pleasure to read. Good to see Planet Max get the attention. I use the term 'cuddling blooms' where they nestle together quite well as in Desperado Love and its parent El Desperado.

Rocky's Eye blooms is fool head off for well over a month. Thats darn good for Maine! I have had 75 blooms in one day.

Awesome, Celeste! That is a beautiful picture

Thank you Vickie, it's a lovely hardy one that has never given me trouble.