Titan of Ice is brand new for me this year, but its petals have REALLY good substance to them and the scape has a nice thickness. This is my FAVORITE daylily in my garden as of right now! (I think I like it even better than my Ruby Spider!) When I knew it was going to bloom on a particular day, the first thing I would do each morning was look out my window to see it with the giddy excitement of a kid at Christmas. It's hard to believe I *won* this beautiful daylily! It is definitely a valuable and extremely important cultivar to me.

Update on 8/24/15: I wish I'd had my second garden bed installed before I received Titan of Ice, because it is my favorite daylily so far and deserved a home in better soil than I gave it. I had planned to move it, but days after I got it and it started blooming, I watched in misery as a stiff wind--we get very high winds here!--from a rainstorm blew over the only scape I had, cracking the stem beneath the soil surface somewhere and it didn't bounce back up. (It has nice, thick scapes that didn't break at or above the ground level, but the huge, thick bloom caught the brunt of the wind and it probably cracked right at the crown, just below the soil. I stared at it out my window, willing it to bounce back up for several minutes before I ran out in the pouring rain, tied it to a stake in the ground, and crossed my fingers...and, fortunately, Titan pulled through like a champ and all of it's remaining buds bloomed out beautifully! But, as a result, I couldn't move it to better soil. It has been bloomed out for a couple of weeks now, but has a seedpod on it, so it'll have to stay in the less-than-ideal, clay-like soil for a little while longer. It isn't increasing, presumably as a result of the poor soil condition. As soon as the seedpods come off, though, I'm putting my beloved Titan of Ice in a garden bed with a nice compost/peat/topsoil blend that I hope it will love and use to take off.

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