Nature abhors a vacuum and my daylily beds abhor an empty space!

Lalambchop1 said:Nature abhors a vacuum and my daylily beds abhor an empty space!

Mine too! Though my wallet doesn't seem to mind emptiness!

Too right, James!

I've never bought a bad one. Misrepresented by flashy nursery tags? A few disappointments there. Reds.
I know better now.

What was the problem with Reds?

I think my most disappointing purchase was HOT EMBER. It looked stunning in the advertising photo. I desired it. Vibrant, blaring orange, heavy.

Phizzzle. Thin, variable in colour, often wan with low scapes.

Now I use the databases before I finally decide.

I think my others were two that turned out to be not what I ordered when they eventually flowered 1-2 years later. This has happened several times but these two the supplier kept on giving ids they weren't. I think he and I gave up in the end but I don't think he should have.

I always hate it when I am the last post of a thread.

There Gleni, fixed it for you.

Charley

This is my disappointment of the day. Nicole's Drama Queen has been here 2 yrs. Last year no blooms and yesterday the first bloom looked like this

Might want to check the spelling on that label.

I had to look back, oh dear that tag was a bit short for my lettering lol. That is a N.

My major dissapointment has been Dragonfly Dawn. But not entirely it's own fault!
I purchased it 3 years ago in the early summer, and in the following late winter, a squirrel decided to bury a nut where it as planted and tore it apart. ( My neighbor feeds the squirrels all winter) I dug up what was left and the crown was damaged. I wanted to lace the peanut with arsenic lol. I replanted it in the same place, and babied it all year. After replanting I contacted the seller ( a friend of mine) and explained what had happened. She said to give it a few months and see if it regrows, or she will send a replacement It didn't start growing ( a miracle) until Early fall! Then I was freaking out that if we had an early winter or very cold suddenly, I would lose it, it ended up being a mild winter. I had already received the replacement in the Late spring.
The next year it didn't increase at all, it also didn't bloom. This year it has another fan, and it better bloom, no scapes yet.
The replacement had an increase of one fan in 2 years , also no scapes...... yet. I am crossing everything.

UPDATE: it finally bloomed for me in 2017... so, previously I had been babying the crap out of it, and had to wait another year for it, it blooms. Here's the kicker.............










It's not Dragonfly Dawn...........
Its Michael Miller. LMAO!!! As previously mentioned, the seller did replace it with Dragonfly Dawn the previous year after the squirrel ruined it.That one bloomed and it is Dragonfly Dawn

Solid Mahogny and Momentum. Trashed the 1st one last year but wife said give Momentum another year. I added 45 new last year so we shall see if there any more. I believe in giving all a second chance and many times its about location and some TLC.

So far the only one has been Collaboration. I had it for a few years and the flowers NEVER opened fully. I even moved it to a better spot but it didn't make a difference. I ended up moving it out of the garden. Getting hung up is one thing. But those flowers were just too floppy to open completely. I suspect it needed warmer temps so I sent it south.

I am surprised about Momentum. It does very well here. Not the prettiest bloom but blooms a lot.

My most regrettable were two new FL intro's for which I paid $200 each. They died within 2 years while all around were fine.

Ouch!!!

Well...if missery loves company, you know Im still stinging.

I have some sdlgs with Carved Initials as a parent. I cant find a decent picture of it. They all look horrible. Does anyone grow it? Does it ever form a flower.

bxncbx said:So far the only one has been Collaboration. I had it for a few years and the flowers NEVER opened fully. I even moved it to a better spot but it didn't make a difference. I ended up moving it out of the garden. Getting hung up is one thing. But those flowers were just too floppy to open completely. I suspect it needed warmer temps so I sent it south.

Wow Collaboration has been one of my favorites this year. A lot of my crosses this year are from it.

Mine was a summer sale, you know, buy one from this group and get one from that group sort of mumbo jumbo. I fell for it big and ordere six that I really wanted and selected my freebies the same way. A huge box of daylilies from the top of my want list. Big check went out.

About ten days later this huge box appears and what do you know I don't recognize a single Daylily in the box. A quick call gets me a "we will look into it right away." A few days later I get a call "Your daylilies went to Connecticut, here's the address, just send your's on and we will ask him to do the same " I sent his on at my expense, he returned his to Florida and they sent my box to me.

It had been boxed up long enough and exposed to summer heat by the time it got to me it looked like the end of a tag team wrestling match between two old bunches of celery.

I planted them, two grew. I called and wrote and got no answer. They must have had caller I.D.

Didn't deal with them again. They came to speak at our club and I went up and politely introduced myself carefully stretching the pronunciation of my name to be sure they got it.

Small recompense and water long ago under the bridge.

Charley

(When you get to be my age you need a very large bridge!)