Just a note on 'Embellished Pink' ... In zone 3, for some reason, I 'almost never' find proliferations on daylilies here. That's why it was so amazing this year (2023) to find not only 'a' prolif on 'Embellished Pink' but I found (3) of them.
I cut the scapes and planted them into potting soil (just at the base of the prolifs, so their roots could grow right into the soil); and, due to cold weather, put them down in my grow room to see whether or not they would 'take'. All three rooted well and are growing happily. Next spring, I will move them to the gardens. Not sure whether anyone else has found (free) proliferations growing on 'Embellished Pink' scapes, but I surely did this year.
Diamond-dusted, lily-like little beauty, Accentuate the Green reblooms on taller scapes here in 7a. With nutrients and moisture, the rebloom exceeds the initial display. Established clumps put out a light third round of scapes, which is handy if one is using the (fertile) pollen. Very pod fertile, too. Thank you, Tina!
This daylily grew moderately well in my zone 7b north Georgia garden, going from 2 fans to 6 fans in 3 years. It bloomed reliable in mid-season, but with no rebloom scapes. The flower size, color, and pattern are pretty, but mediocre, so I removed it from my garden to make room for other varieties.
I purchased 'Star Crossed Lovers' from the printed catalogue of We're in the Hayfield Now daylilies many years ago. The catalogue indicated it was not fertile. It was registered as a tetraploid. I pollinated it with pollen of many different tetraploid cultivars over many years and found that it was not pod fertile. I also tried pollinating it with pollen from diploid cultivars many times and those pollinations also failed. Then one year I tried pollinating it with diploid pollen on the night before the flowers fully opened. Those pollinations succeeded. Unfortunately, I never planted the seeds so I cannot be 100% certain but I believe that 'Star Crossed Lovers' is a diploid. I think that it is a seedling that has 'Exotic Echo' in its ancestry.
I have tried pollinating this cultivar over many years and many plants (I have a six foot row of it). It does not appear to be pod fertile.
From its parentage information I think that this plant is a triploid.
I obtained its pollen parent 'Star Crossed Lovers' directly from its hybridizers many years ago and tetraploid pollen failed with it but diploid pollen was successful. I think that its pollen parent, 'Star Crossed Lovers', is a diploid that was registered as a tetraploid.
Great performance for a second year plant! I planted this last year, 2022. The plant started blooming the second week of August, and it continued until 9/28/23, ending its bloom season with two beautiful pink flowers. Pink is not an easy flower to find in late daylilies, and I'm sure glad that M. K. B. is in my garden!
FFO on a proliferation rebloom scape in TX was measured at 140mm ~5.5". The rest will likely be smaller but TJO doesn't usually rebloom for me so who knows.
This daylily has been continuously blooming from late May through September this year, and the rebloom scapes keep getting taller and more branched. It looks like it will try to go until frost. In its third summer here. It got planted with compost as amendment in the beginning, but got no fertilizing at all this year. Very impressive performance! Opens early and beautifully in interesting shades of pink and peach, depending. Sometime blooms are bigger (early season and good rain?), sometimes smaller (late season bud-building in the absence of good moisture)... but always gorgeous.
I noticed 5 scapes on Isabelle Rose with prolifs yesterday. I don't know if prolifs are common with this cultivar or not, but this is the first year I have seen them.
This cultivar is mid to late, and puts on a very good rebloom performance, when there is not much else blooming. Scapes show excellent wide branching. Is petite, so good for the front of the border. Very pod fertile and needs de-podding as the season progresses.
'Give Me Eight' is a fun daylily to have in the gardens... of course, first a plant must be suited to your zone and growing conditions, and should have a consistent bloom and enjoyable appearance. 'Give Me Eight' has all that - and more. I believe I read somewhere that it polys about 70% of the time and I do know that it produces polymerous blooms consistently. But what surprised me this year (its 2nd season in the gardens) is how long those blooms last.
Nowhere have I seen 'Give Me Eight' noted for extended bloom, but in my gardens the flowers regularly last well into a second day. Last week, I kept taking photos of the same two poly blooms to verify how well they were holding up, and they went almost 2 full days before wilting. That's crazy and cool, both at the same time.
I am not sure if our cooler northern garden season is contributing to their perseverance, but I will attest to the fact that ... here in zone 3... 'Give Me Eight' is well in the lead for extended blooms.
I love this daylily! I added 'Gaia' to my gardens last year (2022) and it bloomed the very first year, virtually unheard of for colder climates. Zone 3 winter did not faze it at all, and this year the plant ... while still immature... has been blooming steadily for several weeks. 'Gaia' produces gorgeous flowers, always well-formed and with outstanding colour to go with the watermark. A real eye-catcher in the gardens.
I've been growing 'Eye Popper' in my zone 3 gardens for four years and have to say: this one just keeps getting better. Daylilies multiply slowly here, but Eye Popper has tripled its fans.
The blooms are extremely consistent in shape and pattern, the toothed edge is always present, and 'Eye Popper' has never shown any sign of water spots. Scapes are sturdy / never flop. The blooms hold their colour well, even in afternoon sun. (And it's also fragrant.) This one, I think, is under-appreciated and deserves to be in more gardens.
Registered as diurnal, this plant starts to open around dinner time the evening before in my Huron County, MI, garden, and is fully open before sunrise.
This cultivar has incredibly strong scapes, and reblooms here in 7a. It is not an early morning opener, but is worth the wait, with its pleasantly multi-hued lemony business.
While 'Sharply Focused' is noted for hardiness to zone 5, I have been growing it quite well in zone 3. It blooms in early to midseason (then reblooms). It just keeps putting out perfect bloom after perfect bloom, with a lovely multicolour eye and pie crust edge - and does not 'hang up' on opening blooms that are already fully fledged by just after 6 a.m.
The lighter, smokey-blue tones of the complex eye (with a lavender-violet outer, second ring bleeding like spilt watercolours into the near-white petals) will grab your attention from anywhere in the gardens. (It has also produced poly blooms in my gardens.) It reaches every inch of the listed 36-inch scape height, flowering well above the foliage. If you only want to add 'one' new daylily into your garden this year - this would be the 'one' to add.
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