Hi Debra, I apologize for not welcoming you to ATP and commenting on your alway beautiful photographs. It has been such a bad year for daylilies in our area that I just about lost interest. We had the warm weather and big flush of green growth followed by freezing temps. When my daylilies put up scapes they were, for the most part, much shorter than normal and with much lower bud counts. They got watered regularly so I don't think water was the issue. I pollinated and set a lot of pods, but many aborted and the ones that have stayed on until the pods crack open often have one or two viable seeds and often none. The rest are very soft. I wonder if these first scapes just didn't have the energy to mature the seeds after what they went through in the spring. The rebloom scapes were normal height but by that time it was too hot to pollinate.
I have a seedling that I will gladly give you to cross with "Poop Eye". It is a cross of Cool Confections X Southern Dazzle and is a large bloom. Last year I measured some blooms at 8" but they were not that big this year. It is BROWN and I don't care for brown daylilies. I am either going to give it to someone who wants it or compost it (if it will die). The ones you want to die in the compost pile usually won't die and the ones you want desperately to live sometimes die. This photo doesn't look as brown as it really is. Believe me, it is BROWN!
Cool Confections X Southern Dazzle 2012
Anyway, welcome. I am glad to see you here. You have some excellent seedlings and I enjoyed all your photos.
