OtherUncleWill said:@ Nightlily, would you happen to know what which climate zone ( or its equivalent) you are in?
It took a little time to find out how I can compare our climate zone roughly with the ones in die USDA-System - should be 6b/7a. Winters since millenium change are much warmer than they were 50 years ago. Now we have usually just a handfull nights with -15°C (5°F) - mostly in Jannuary - when I was a child we had weeks of frost with night temperatures below -6°F.
But the climate in our region is influenced by the Adriatic Sea - our summers are usually quite hot and long. Daylily peak bloom is in normal years in the last week of June.
OtherUncleWill said:I understand your excitement at having non yellow/peach lates. I'm looking to add something like that in the future. August Flame is an option, I NEED a late red.
Late and very late reds here are:
Forsyth White Buds - still flowering, not very high scapes but lots of big brilliant cherry red flowers and unusual buds:
August Fire - special form, bud count is not good up to now, has finished now
Bengal Fire - sometimes rebloom too, has finished now
Flameburst - new here, brilliant colors, has finished now
Fred's Red - a leaner, many buds - still flowering
September Flame - quite similar to August Fire, just 1-2 weeks later, 2-3 buds left today
I would like to have a large flowered brilliant red tetraploid with a ruffled edge, sunfast, on well proportioned scapes with many buds to go - at the moment the first seedlings here point in that direction.