A free plant is a free plant. Hopefully you can make use of it. If not, nothing was lost, really. Give it away, or toss it.
But do you know what? Even if you order daylilies, and get a free daylily gift plant, it may still be nothing that you want.
I'm pretty full up on daylilies now, to the point that the garden has a virtual revolving door, insofar as they are concerned. (At one time in my life I couldn't see why other daylily people did such a thing, but now I do. There ARE better plants available, in some cases, than what you started out with.)
Because of that (and the drought is not helping), if I remember to, I try to specify "no gift plants, please". (I confess that sometimes I will break the rule, especially with sellers who have been very generous to me with good gift plants in the past.
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But another reason for "no gift plants" (with the exception of certain sellers), is that I have noticed that all too frequently, if I
don't specify "no gift plants", I will get one alright... but it will be nothing that I want, and also nothing that I would dare give away. (Can you say, some older plant that is 4.7 on the rust resistance scale, or is otherwise notorious for rust susceptibility? Or has such a parent? Or has muddy color, or low bud count and branching, or other problems?)
Just because it may be customary in the daylily world to give buyers daylily gift plants (which, when I first started buying daylilies, was an astonishment to me), it is
not obligatory, and as such we should not
expect gift plants, let alone
good, great, blessing-to-our-garden gift plants.
Just my opinion... (and no, I am not a seller...nor do I have any relationship with the aforementioned nursery).