I can't believe one of them - the prism - has 10-way branching. That's really amazing to me. I never thought I'd see so many daylilies larger in diameter than 7 inches with such great heights. So far, by the way, none of the taller Floyd Cove intros are getting those heights in my climate. Stamile and Pierce have really changed what daylilies are in the last decade.

There's nothing like a reality check from someone growing daylilies from these hybridizers and finding out what really happens in their garden. I bought Green Mystique when it was supposedly having 55 buds per scape. Now I see on the NGS plant data base it is listed at 46 and over. I have had GM for five years and it has never produced anything close to that. I have not done a count, but my guess is maybe 15-20 on a good day. That's why I take a lot of these bud counts with a grain of salt, if not outright disbelief, at least as to what the plant would do here in our garden.

I like high bud count if the buds don't all open at once. The plant gets overwhelmed and out of balance sometimes if a lot of buds open at once. And then you have to deadhead them the next day.