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ARoseblush said:

Susan:

I find this to be strange as well. Here is Bill Maryott's description if 'Strikingly Dramatic' from his website. No mention of foliage type in description:

(Maryott 2010) 28 inches tall, EMRe, 5.5 inch flowers, fertile Tetraploid. Cream (RHS 19B) with purple eye (RHS 187A) Yellow green throat. Cream "petalets" extending from the normal petals. Open form. Strong grower, good branching, about 18 buds per scape and lovely in the garden. You can easily tell this is NOT my form. I love round "bagel forms" . I do occasionally make "exotic" crosses though and this one came from GERDA BROOKER crossed with my own open form seedlings from OFF BEAT. We expect a very high demand for this cultivar so don't wait too long before reserving it. Parentage: G1204A: [E189A (OFF BEAT X CATCHER IN THE EYE)] X GERDA BROOKER.

It is definitely an EV.

I ordered it in June, 2010 along with 'Red Slippers' which also has never bloomed for me, and 'Raspberries in Cream' which died this Spring. Bad luck? Maybe. Out of the 200 daylilies I have planted I have only lost 2 other plants, and that was probably due to the fact that I planted them in mid September. I learned from those 2 I lost, not to plant anything after August in VT. And the Winter of 2010 was a hellacious one with tons of snow and bitter cold temps. "Raspberries in Cream' was planted in July. It just may be, that Maryott's plants and my zone 4b arn't a good mix. I gave all his bonus plants to my wonderful Postmaster who also grows daylilies on a farm. I haven't asked him if they survived, but I will next time I am down in the Valley. The bonus plants were 'orange-eyed' daylilies, and I can only take so much orange in my life. I only have 3 orange daylily plants in my garden. All other colors, mixtures, eyes, pastels, butterflies, purples,blues, pinks, reds, black, yellows, white and greens, I adore.

How did you know it was a EV? should I have known that? I was thinking that people in zone 4 should stick with the dormants. Don't they put up with the cold a lot better than the EV's? Also sense it gets cold faster there you would not want a late bloomer. They don't bloom good because it would already be too cold to bloom during their season? I did notice that Maryott's changed the season on this daylily to 'late'.

If I was you I would purchase from people closer to my own zone. You can get better choices for zone 4 and also purchase plants that are already adapted to the cold, because they are grown there, not zone 9. If you get plants from zone9 they would probably go into shock when they get to your house!

I have the opposite problem as you because I need daylilies that are better choices for the south and I want plants that are already adapted to the heat if I can get them. Don't you need to get your plants earlier so they can get rooted good? If they have a set shipping time and will not be flexible then go some where else.

One lady from 'Daylilies by the Pond', (sara), who is in zone 6, she wanted to ship in august and I said NO! My gosh it was 100°here, and I knew they would get over heated and 'bake'. She agreed to ship at the end of September and I ended up doing a lot of business with her.

So, if you do purchase from the south you need time for your plants to adapt and settle in before winter and that means you would need shipping in the spring. If your ground is still frozen you can just pot them up and wait till it thaws to plant them. .(IMHO)