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Aug 4, 2016 6:01 PM CST
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Name: Becky
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Background history:

'Buttered Popcorn' is a semi-evergreen tetraploid introduced in 1971 by Benzinger. No further information is known other than there are 56 registered cultivars listed under this hybridizer's name.

Buttered Popcorn is a mid-season to late EMO bloomer. It has earned the following AHS awards: Award of Merit: 2004, Honorable Mention: 2001, and PC: 1993. It has a rust resistance rating of 1.3. It is listed as pod and pollen fertile with 7 registered children: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Buttered Popcorn') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Buttered Popcorn')
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Aug 4, 2016 6:44 PM CST
Name: Larry
Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b)
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'Buttered Popcorn' with a rust resistance rating of 1.3 was one of the first daylilies I ever ordered online. The main reason for ordering it along with the others in that order was rust resistance. So naturally, I have been very disappointed that here in my garden 'Buttered Popcorn' has been one of my most rust prone daylilies for the past two seasons. The rust was so bad that at one point there were no leaves left on the plant. It had just recently seemed to recover and now has decent looking foliage. Because of the rust the plant has naturally suffered, it did bloom, and rebloom but it has been noticeably set back a few times this season. If not for the rust I do feel this plant would have thrived and been much more developed than it currently is. I love the color, and if I can find a viable way of controlling the rust it will stay in my garden, but if not then it will have to go.
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Aug 4, 2016 7:39 PM CST
Name: Barbalee
Amarillo, TX (Zone 6b)
'Buttered Popcorn' was the most showy cultivar in my first-year garden. The color is absolutely stunning, and it was the tallest one in my garden though not as tall as the stats suggest (32"). The bloom stats are 6", and mine were only about 5". Mind you, this is a first-year garden with 'Buttered Popcorn' planted in May and showing me its four blooms about a month later. I'm looking forward to seeing the real show of 'Buttered Popcorn' next year! I had no rust to worry about, and she certainly grew well this year.
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Aug 4, 2016 7:55 PM CST
Name: Julie C
Roanoke, VA (Zone 7a)
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Fred Benzinger lived just north of Charlottesville, VA and was one of JIm Murphys early mentors. Jim started his Hybridizing program with some of Fred's extended bloom seedlings. I believe Margo told me he'd retired from teaching horticulture at UVA. He was quite a crusty old gentleman when I met him in the late 90's. I visited his garden a couple of times. Once when I mentioned my interest in Daylilies, he ran inside and brought out an article the local newspaper had written about him and his garden, and he insisted I keep it when we left.
At one of the first Regional meetings I attended( 2001, near Baltimore) the area was in a deep drought, and most gardens were under water restrictions. The plants mostly looked wilted and, well, awful, except for Buttered Popcorn. It sat there, blooming its head off, completely unfazed by drought. Though I never grew it, I saw it blooming in many gardens and always looking super. A few years later, when it was on the Stout Medal list, I voted for it! It didn't win. The bloom is a bit old fashioned, but what a dependable plant. That's the only time in my nearly 20 years as a garden judge, that I've ever voted for a cultivar I haven't personally grown.
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Aug 4, 2016 7:59 PM CST
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly"
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Great story, Julie!
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Aug 4, 2016 9:16 PM CST
South Central Kentucky (Zone 6b)
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Buttered Popcorn has a lovely yellow bloom that seems to beckon you to come take a closer look. It is fast at increasing for me and produces a nice clump in a short time. The foliage is always green and healthy looking. Some of my other daylily foliage looks ratty by the season's end, but not Buttered Popcorn.
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Aug 4, 2016 9:26 PM CST
Athens, Ohio (Zone 6a)
Wonderful landscaper. Well budded, good height, just short of the 6" registered size.

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Aug 4, 2016 10:40 PM CST
Name: Boyd Banks
Creston N.C. (Zone 6b)
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It is one of the very best I have ever grown,I will have it as long as I have a garden.
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Aug 4, 2016 11:04 PM CST
Name: Charley
Arroyo Seco New Mexico (Zone 4b)
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BUTTERED POPCORN blooms here first and is the only bloom in the garden for a couple of weeks. It is planted in sandy gravel and gets little special care including the least water of any of our hems. Its form is nothing special but the color really pops and the mass of blooms is impressive.

First bloom here June 16, last bloom July 16.

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Aug 5, 2016 5:53 AM CST
Name: Liz Quinn
Statesville, NC (Zone 7a)
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Butter Popcorn is such a dependable bloomer and plant.. The color is a true reminder of summer. It is one of th cultivars that are grown along the NC highways. One of the first Dayliles purchased.
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Aug 5, 2016 10:36 AM CST
Name: Avedon
NE Tex (Zone 8a)
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There are four Buttered Popcorns here. They used to be great, put on a terrific show until the rust came to the garden. I can't believe a rust resistance rating that high--were only northern daylilies put to the test? For these past two years, these have been totally decimated by rust, taken right down to the ground. These are going to have to go, there is no use keeping them.
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Aug 5, 2016 4:01 PM CST
Name: Barbalee
Amarillo, TX (Zone 6b)
Avedon said:There are four Buttered Popcorns here. They used to be great, put on a terrific show until the rust came to the garden. I can't believe a rust resistance rating that high--were only northern daylilies put to the test? For these past two years, these have been totally decimated by rust, taken right down to the ground. These are going to have to go, there is no use keeping them.


Thumbs down Sighing! So sad, Avedon!
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Aug 5, 2016 6:28 PM CST
Name: Sandy
Croft, PA (Zone 5a)
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I have Buttered Popcorn in my garden. I bought it cause I thought it was supposed to be fragrant. It's NOT. Sighing!
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Aug 7, 2016 9:43 AM CST
Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
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I purchased BP in 2006 and it has always been a joy to see it in bloom. In the 10 years I have had it, it had never been moved until this year when I finally divided it to sell at our club sale in June. It was about 20 fans when I separated it. I believe it would have been more had I divided it after five years. It was a very tight clump to divide.

It usually has 2-3 way branching close to the top and anywhere between 10-18 buds, which you might be able to see in the picture below.

Although it is registered as ML bloomer, in my zone 6b garden in 2015, it bloomed from June 13th thru July 4th, so a good three weeks of bloom. And it definitely has a nice, sturdy 32" scape to hold up the blooms. I've never noticed rust on it.

The database shows it as an EMO (early morning opener), but I really couldn't say whether I've ever noticed this trait or not.

Buttered Popcorn on June 23, 2015
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Buttered Popcorn on June 13, 2016 (before dividing for club sale, which just about killed me to do!!!!)
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Aug 7, 2016 9:49 AM CST
Name: Larry
Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b)
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Buttered Popcorn is not an early morning opener in my garden.
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Nov 9, 2020 11:55 PM CST
Name: Zoia Bologovsky
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I've had Buttered Popcorn on my Hill for many years. It's a great plant and a furious bloomer and massive clumper... it's taken over a whole section of the Hill. But it looks great when it's going for it! It's truly mid season in my garden, usually blooming through July.
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Nov 10, 2020 10:15 AM CST
Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
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I almost completely got rid of Buttered Popcorn this spring, but something made me hold back a piece of it. Glad I did!
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Nov 10, 2020 7:06 PM CST
Name: Zoia Bologovsky
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I think if you are zone 6, it's a really great Daylily, just because of its massive impact when it's a clump. It's definitely comfortable here!
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Aug 25, 2021 6:28 AM CST
Name: Nan
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Seedfork said:'Buttered Popcorn' with a rust resistance rating of 1.3 was one of the first daylilies I ever ordered online. The main reason for ordering it along with the others in that order was rust resistance. So naturally, I have been very disappointed that here in my garden 'Buttered Popcorn' has been one of my most rust prone daylilies for the past two seasons. The rust was so bad that at one point there were no leaves left on the plant. It had just recently seemed to recover and now has decent looking foliage. Because of the rust the plant has naturally suffered, it did bloom, and rebloom but it has been noticeably set back a few times this season. If not for the rust I do feel this plant would have thrived and been much more developed than it currently is. I love the color, and if I can find a viable way of controlling the rust it will stay in my garden, but if not then it will have to go.


My experience has been exactly the same. I ordered Buttered Popcorn in the spring because of the rust resistance rating, and at first, I was delighted with it. It bloomed profusely, and the blooms had great substance and really stood out. However, it has developed rust multiple times this past summer, and I am thinking it will have to go. I may give it one more summer. I would be interested, Larry, to find out if yours has done any better since you wrote the above.

My guess is that since Buttered Popcorn had been assigned that excellent rating, it has been exposed to different strains of rust.
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Aug 25, 2021 7:27 PM CST
Name: Larry
Enterprise, Al. 36330 (Zone 8b)
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Sad to say, this year I have no photos of 'Buttered Popcorn' and no recollection of how it performed this year.

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