Y'all are wonderful with all the comments and information from your experiences with Dragonfly Dawn. It is truly a favorite of mine and I am delighted to read that it is a highly regarded addition to your daylily collections!

And yes! I give out acorns for performance information shared about each of the Daylily of the Day cultivars! But know that your information is priceless, in MY opinion ... so thanks to each and every one of you!

Gerry - So sorry to hear that your first one didn't make it. I hope the new one survives and does great.

I am very pleased to hear how well it grows from a double fan to many fans in a year or two.

Dragonfly Dawn has done very well here on the Gulf Coast, always a nice bloom, pod and pollen fertile, also increases very well.

Fred - What growing zone are you in?

Dragonfly Dawn does very well in NW Louisiana. Pod, pollen fertile and increases well.

I think they say 8 but, I live 1/2 mile from the water so it seems like 9 to me.

This pic is from 4/6/15. Beautiful plant. Really tough year for this garden! This plant stopped blooming in late May and never reached 36". The tallest scape was 28".

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to post your performance evaluations of this cultivar! Feel free to come back to this thread to add additional comments or post a photo at ANY time.

OH MY GOD how did I miss this post??? Well so much for not posting here much anymore. Sometimes I get so busy I forget to check posts. Dragonfly Dawn is my favorite daylily. I kept getting more of it each year since 2012. I now have FIVE clumps of it since it sets pods so easily and I sell seeds. I think I have enough now, this year I got about 130 pods on it. This was a banner year for me with 1000 pods total, the most ever for my little back yard garden.

I'm older and not much energy anymore to plant seedlings. But a couple of years ago I planted 12 seeds from Dragonfly Dawn x Waves of Joy. This spring I had a gorgeous one bloom that had a green cast to it. The pattern wasn't that in your face but it had beautiful pastel colors. It is very difficult for me to photograph it and capture the green overlay. But here is my best effort. I actually sold some seeds from it on the auction.




I have seen some beautiful seedlings from Dragonfly Dawn x Cobalt Rings from two different people on Facebook.

So here are some of my favorite pictures of Dragonfly Dawn. I keep taking more of it every year since it is such a showoff.

Dragonfly Dawn 2016

Dragonfly Dawn 2016

Dragonfly Dawn 2015

Dragonfly Dawn a picture I use to sell seeds.

Dragonfly Dawn with border for seeds sales.

This one for Happy Birthdays.


Then I keep buying children of Dragonfly Dawn EVERY year.
Mackenzies Rainbow.

Digital Divide

Jane's Pink and Blue

This years 2016 Green Empress which is from Waves of Joy (child of Dr. Dawn)

Waves of Joy

This years 2016 Rainbow Beach

This years 2016 Changing Shadows.

Delaney's Rainbow

Circle in the Storm.

Dot - Beautiful photos of Dragonfly Dawn and many of it's registered children.

You are in good company! I, too, love Dragonfly Dawn (and it's children). I don't own any of them .... yet. But I am growing a lot of seedlings from DD. Unfortunately, a DD x DD cross I originally grew out, did not fair well. Out of 4 seedlings, only 1 is currently alive. Not sure why, but lost them one by one. Seedlings around them are doing fine, so I've no idea what caused their demise. Perhaps crossing DD with itself makes for a weaker plant. I will say though, that DD crossed with other cultivars seems to be producing some healthy seedlings. Time will tell..... Thanks for sharing your lovely photos and great evaluation!!!

I do not own Dragonfly Dawn, but I do own numerous seedlings of this cultivar. It makes a wonderful parent to the majority of children it is capable of creating. I had started a thread not too long ago about the children of this Dragonfly Dawn:
The thread "Children of Dragonfly Dawn" in Daylilies forum

This has been a reliable performer for me and easy parent. Highly recommend.

I got this one in the fall of 2017 from Pick-a-Daylily here in Lincoln. I was told that it's a bit tender here in zone 5b, so I planted it on the south side of the house, protected from the north wind and in as much sun as possible.
The fans came back small this year and I had one scape (about 14" tall) and a whopping bud count of two. I'm hoping that moving it to a location with better soil (new bed) and more consistent watering will improve the bloom quantity.

I planted Dragonfly Dawn in the Spring of 2022. No bloom this year and in October, it was still at 2 fans, with a slight case of rust. Sure hope this survives the winter!

2023 update…I think this one is going down. No bloom this summer and down to one fan