Laura

Yes I do. SOUL ON FIRE is the undisputed champ and I will know more about it with a low of 41 tonight. On the other end of the scale, SOLI DEO GLORIA is taking three cold mornings to "open" into a flatish cone shape. I planted SDG very late last fall and then let our wild rose shade it for too much of the growing season so I will wait until next year for my first evaluation. I emailed Karol for a list of daylilies for my zone and here is her reply;

"Ones I would suggest that I think would do fine for you would be Ambassador of Peace, Battle of Jericho, Spoken in Parables, Bloom Where You're Planted, Intelligent Design, Man of Sorrows, Coin of the Realm, Deliverer, Light of the World. And perhaps others like Clash of Civilizations, Soul on Fire, Fear Not and maybe Handwriting on the Wall, but would be concerned about that one with super low humidity since not as thick of substance as the others and don't want any of them curling. If there are others you have in mind that are not on the list, just ask and I will think about it and tell you why or why not for your location. I just do shipping to the north in the spring - probably early June to you. Most of these are lined out, but some might just be in a display clump, so if you know what you would like be the end of August, I could make sure I get them pulled off a clump and lined out"

This was in reply to asking about zone 4 at 8,000 feet.

Karol's beautiful SOLI DEO GLORIA


With apologies to Karol for doing such a bad job, in my zone 4b garden after 3 consecutive 46 degree nights


Karol's fabulous SOUL ON FIRE on the same morning (not a great picture but look at the bloom.)


As a footnote, FEAR NOT finished blooming before this period of mutant low temperatures started.

Charley

"Look at the bloom"
Well if you looked at the bloom you may have figured out that it is not SOUL ON FIRE, it is actually BARBARA MANDRELL. Here is SOUL ON FIRE on the same morning;



Normally my blooms on SOF have been spotless. I left off one Emmerich which was a big hit this summer that also preceded the cold mornings, TIM KORNDER, great plant and flower.

Sorry for the slip up.

Charley

Thanks for the information and sharing the reply that Karol sent you. One thing that I was thinking about a couple of weeks ago that I plan to do next season is keep a spreadsheet with daily temperatures (maybe 6-7AM temp and day high temp) in it, so when I look back at pictures I took, I can know what the temps were like that day. It's funny, your Barbara Mandrell looks more like my Soul On Fire than your Soul On Fire does! The throat on yours looks much larger and more triangular. Here is my Soul On Fire, taken last year on July 2 (I have no idea what the temp was).

My current SOUL ON FIRE blooms are about 60% the size of their warmer weather blooms. Cold mornings I think. The edge on BARBARA MANDRELL is what sets it off. Here is Karol's photo of SOF;



Charley