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

'Banned in Boston' is a dormant diploid introduced in 1994 by Simpson-D.. No further information can be found on this hybridizer except that there currently 53 cultivars listed by this hybridizer.

Banned in Boston is a mid-season bloomer with possible re-bloom. It has earned the Honorable Mention: 1998 AHS award. It has a rust resistance rating of 1.0.

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

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Banned in Boston')
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Aug 7, 2016 5:33 AM CST
Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)
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I love this plant but it grows rather slowly in my garden. I moved it last year and it did bloom this year but only one scape. I am hoping next year will be a better bloom season for it.

Edited to add: the plant is fertile both ways and a seed must have fallen from it several years ago and this nice little mini bloom plant grew from it. My garden name for this Banned in Boston seedling is Little Miss Melvindale, named after a pageant they have yearly at our annual Melvindale Days. Here is a pic of the seedling.


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Aug 7, 2016 8:28 AM CST
Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
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I have had the same experience as Cindy with H. Banned in Boston. I purchased it in April 2014. It now has three fans: The largest fan produced one scape with 5 buds. The scape was not even a foot tall. The second fan was skimpy and the third fan was barely noticeable. I didn't help the situation when I accidentally stepped on the plant yesterday.

I hope someone else has something better and more encouraging to report. It is such a pretty bloom (I love bi-colors!) that I will definitely give it a few more years before I take it out of the garden (unless I kill it by stepping on it again).
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Aug 7, 2016 9:35 AM CST
Name: Liz Quinn
Statesville, NC (Zone 7a)
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Banned in Boston has been in my garden since 2004. Love the colors it has not increased very well and only get a couple of scapes or blooms each year. I have clay soil and will continue to improve it in hopes that the flowers performance wifi improve.
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Aug 7, 2016 6:43 PM CST
Name: Sue Petruske
Wisconsin (Zone 5a)
I purchased Band In Boston in 2011. It is a slow increaser for me also (zone 5a). But I LOVE the bi-tones and this one is a beauty. This spring I mixed some alfalfa pellets into the soil around BIB and it did make a difference. Here is a picture from this year.


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Aug 7, 2016 7:27 PM CST
Name: Karen Skedgell-Ghiban
Nashville, Michigan (Zone 6a)
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I forget how long I've had this plant for, but when I bought it I was living in Ohio at the time with heavy clay loam soil. It didn't do much down there but when I moved to Michigan and planted it in sandy loam soil, and a good deal more sun, it and many of my other plants took off and it has increased steadily and gave me several scapes of flowers this year despite the drought. I didn't pay attention to bud count, I haven't paid too close attention to that in recent years, but I do know most of my daylilies suffered from shorter scapes and less buds and bud drop overall this year due to the dry weather, whereas a few others didn't seem affected.
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Aug 7, 2016 8:42 PM CST
Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
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Nice picture, Sue Thumbs up The leaves on BIB look very healthy.
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Aug 8, 2016 6:08 AM CST
Name: Teresa Felty Barrow
South central KY (Zone 6b)
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aww, I was hoping for better reports on this one. My oldest daughter lived in Boston a few years and I just never got around to adding it yet. I may give it a try just because I love Boston and the bitone!
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Aug 8, 2016 8:12 AM CST
Name: Betty
MN zone 4b
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I did have this one in my garden for a number of years, once it was established it bloomed fairly well with a lovely flower although it increased slowly. Last year it was replaced with a different daylily because I wanted to try another cultivar.
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Dec 30, 2022 2:24 PM CST
Name: Zoia Bologovsky
Stoneham MA (Zone 6b)
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I planted this cv, mostly for the name as I'm 10 miles from Boston. It's also cute! However, my experience mirrors everyone else's.
Planted in the Spring of 2021, by October 2022, it is still sitting at two fans and no flowers. Not impressed so far!
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Oct 17, 2023 12:32 PM CST
Name: Zoia Bologovsky
Stoneham MA (Zone 6b)
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2023 update… this summer, BIB grew a fan, leaving it at three fans in two years. It also bloomed, producing 5 whole flowers. It is in a dappled shade location, I'm sure it would do better somewhere else.


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Nov 8, 2023 9:49 AM CST
Name: Nan
southeast Georgia (Zone 8b)
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I bought this plant from Sterrett Gardens in the spring of 2022. I wanted it for its exquisite blooms, but I was also encouraged by the rust resistance score of 1.0. They sent me three nice fans.

Banned in Boston has been a so-so bloomer here. The flowers are just as lovely as in the many pictures posted, and it is one of the few plants I have that blooms as a true pink color in my soil with its patches of clay. But it hasn't produced many blooms in either of its two bloom seasons. I am hoping some alfalfa pellets and fertilizer will encourage it. I have not yet gotten more than once bloom at a time, but the plant has increased from three fans to six. I keep imagining how lovely Banned in Boston would be in a clump. Maybe next season!

I just checked the plant a few minutes ago before sitting down to write this review, and in November, the foliage looks good. The plant has shown some rust now and then, but it is fairly resistant. Any plant with any susceptibility will show rust here, since rust is endemic, and I don't spray anything. I have had plants that are much rustier than Banned in Boston.

I will keep the plant for its lovely blooms and its name. Like Zoia, I have a Boston connection--I was born there.
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