I met "Elizabeth Salter" at the first daylily show I ever attended, happened in the small town of Bainbridge, GA. She positively glowed, I loved the self color - no distractions, and showed the delicate form to perfection. I had to have it, which set off the first of many daylily buying sprees over the last 10 years up here in the Tallahassee area. I had gone every year to one of the daylily farms in Alachua, FL when I lived down there for their open house and bought up to a half dozen plants but this was a show where the flowers were judged so they were staged to set off the flowers.
Mine arrived from Flourishing Daylilies and planted the same day. I impatiently waited for her to settle in and produce some flowers which she did. The scapes aren't real tall (about the listed height of 22") but they were over the foliage so the flowers showed nicely. Strangely, in spite of the formal description of the color as pink, the daylilies I've seen have been a soft and delicate salmon color, no trace of garishness or muddiness, just a pure feminine kind of color. The depth of color was sufficient so that I wouldn't call it a pastel but it wasn't bright either - just a restful shade and intensity. Joy's photo is closest to the color and form of my Elizabeth Salter.
This was in the days before major multibranching and multitudes of flowers per scape but it did bloom nicely over a fairly long period and then rebloomed for me. I suspect that if I hadn't planted that first set of daylilies in partial shade that I would have gotten more flowers. The foliage wasn't dense and the leaves were finely textured. I never noticed leaf streak or rust so it always looked clean. I have never tired of Elizabeth Salter and suspect I will always keep her. So pretty. She definitely deserved all of those awards.
Barb
