Kyla - The seedlings currently blooming that I got the seeds from Cindy are a little over a year old now. The freebie seeds are germinated and will likely bloom next year. Here in FL they typically bloom in a year ..... or two at the latest.

beckygardener said:Kyla - The seedlings currently blooming that I got the seeds from Cindy are a little over a year old now. The freebie seeds are germinated and will likely bloom next year. Here in FL they typically bloom in a year ..... or two at the latest.

Ah, that makes sense!

Here's me with another newbie question.

I was given (asked to dig up actually) this daylily from a friend's yard. I will get more from her no doubt but this was huge and all I was prepared to deal with right away!

All she can tell me is that it has not bloomed yet this year, and the blooms are lavender color.



I would have divided it in her yard as it clearly could use that (numerous fans in there) but the soil was rock hard so I ended up taking the whole thing. Temporarily put in a container.

Questions: Do you think it might go ahead and bloom this year? Should I divide it right away, at least into two or more likely three clumps and pot them separately now? or later after it blooms? It may need to be a container plant for a while as I am not at all sure at this point where I would site it in the ground though I could probably find a place for some of it. Suggestions?

Kyla, I think its all personal preference. I have some clumps that are larger than yours that I have not divided and they still bloom. Once in awhile you get a picky one that needs to be divided or it will not bloom well. I have found that to be few and far between here. As long as they are watered well and get a little fertilizer it should be fine, unless of course you would rather divided it so you can plant it in more than one location.

Thanks, Cindy. I rather unceremoniously potted it up, so will at least pot it up more carefully in the near future and probably divide. In fact I have some containers it would look nice in, three of them. Hmmm!

Now I have yet ANOTHER dl to wait to see what it really looks like! The excitement/suspense is sure building hahaha!

Yay, found it. I knew I had a newbie advice thread here somewhere!

So next door neighbor has offered me a division of her daylily that she says she bought because the flower is very dark. I have not seen the bloom nor questioned her more about it, but, yay, daylily, right?

So I went to check it out, it has four bloomscapes on it -- going to wait until after bloom and probably until cooler weather before I dig up any.

My question is to do with sun and shade. This plant is in shade much of the day. Right now, midday, it's getting some sun, and I expect for the afternoon it will be in some dappled light, but not a lot of sun! My yard is almost all full sun. I can put it in a container in a shadier area but I don't want to grow it there.

If I wait until cooler weather, pot it up for overwintering, is it likely to be able to adjust to a spot in full or nearly full sun, come spring next year?

If you're ultimately planning on planting it in the ground, I would just go ahead and do that when you figure it's the right time to dig it, allowing enough time to re-root before winter. Or did you want to pot it for the winter regardless? Wintering in a pot above ground is harder on a plant than wintering in the ground (assuming both outdoors).

It's best when transplanting bare-root to cut back the existing foliage to reduce transpiration loss, and the new foliage that subsequently appears should adapt itself to the prevailing conditions. Such changes would be expected for shipped daylilies, plus they'd have had the additional stress of spending time in a box in the mail.

The only caveat I might have is whether the dark flower colour would hold up as well in full sun, but that's a different issue. So I wouldn't even be concerned about its adjusting this year, and certainly not next. The current foliage may not be able to take full sun but you'd be cutting that back anyway.

Great, Sue, thanks! It really gets very little sun right now, so interesting.

I do want it in the ground, and not at all sure where just yet, but I am not going to dig it up until cooler weather, that's for sure! For my own sake!