Lovely blooms Teresa! Have fun at your class

Gorgeous booms, Teresa! Enjoy your photography class!

Some of the same ones are reblooming that I posted before. But these are pretty blooms, so here goes.

The Ultimate Sacrifice


Fighting Fire


Picasso's Intrigue

Debra, those are beauties; but, oh, wow, Ultimate Sacrifice must have !

Just gorgeous! Those are all must haves for me too.

Nice ones Teresa and Debra!
Noticed a rebloom scape on Cimarron Rose today...it's suppose to warm up a little this week so maybe it will get a chance to open a few buds.

Have fun at your photography class Teresa.

All three are going on my want list Debra - spectacular

Betsy - The Ultimate Sacrifice is my top favorite daylily this year. Every bloom was great!

Ginny and Karen - I suspect Fighting Fire and Picasso's Intrigue are a bit tender. So if you do get those, you might want to plant them in a sheltered spot, like next to your house.

Char - Cimmaron Rose is the parent of The Ultimate Sacrifice. I think it got its vigor and reblooming genes from the Cimmaron.

I'll keep my eyes open for these next spring.

Relay For Life
Great performer here.

Orange Velvet

Ledgewoods Calico Blues

Great blooms Kid

WOW! WOW! WOW! All those blooming photos are amazing!!!

with Becky. Marvelous !

I have a scape with a few blooms on Kiss of Darkness. It is a new plant this spring and bloomed this summer a few blooms, but now I might get to see it bloom again. Not sure how cold it needs to get before daylilies won't open. We are going to 40's at night this week, so fingers crossed.

Here is a picture from the summer

I purchased Picasso's Intrigue this summer even though I am in zone 5 and am hopeful that it comes through the winter - it is not sheltered - if it makes it, it makes it. I just love it though and had to try! I love Ultimate Sacrifice also, but I have many beautiful reds that are hardy in zone 5. I have purchased several Evergreens this summer and sometimes they are hardy and sometimes they are not...I am also kindof experimenting and have found that Dormants ALMOST always make it and thrive here, also the more of a plant you get the better so I will not buy a single fan - they don't usually do well for me, and buying from someone in your zone or colder is a good way to get hardy plants, and that planting in spring is better than fall.

Good to know Lynnette. For whatever reason I just assumed all daylilies were zoned for 5b, but now I know to check first! Before last year all of mine were purchased either locally or from a catalogue. Now that I'm buying some from hybridizers I'm learning what to look for! Let me know how Picasso's Intrigue winters over if you think about it next Spring

Lynnette - You've passed on some great advice about daylilies in your zone. It sounds like you are making very wise buying decisions. Be sure to mulch Picasso's Intrigue well. I'd hate for you to lose it.

No, they are definitely not. I have only been purchasing daylilies for about 3 years now and have purchased them from many sources - ebay to Daylily Auction to directly from sellers or hybridizers and many have died from crown rot or just kindof died away and these were mainly Evergreens with a couple of SE or D thrown in. I have tried three times with Free Wheelin' and finally purchased my last plant from a norther grower. It did bloom, but has not been through a winter yet, and it is an Evergreen. I have heard from some other people that is tender in zone 5. There are many blogs around that speak about hardiness or tenderness of certain plants also. Sometimes I check and sometimes I just buy them if I just have to have them. Free Wheelin' was the very first daylily I purchased and don't want to give up, but if it dies this winter, I will give up on it.

I have purchased many daylilies from people in FL and GA several times and most of the daylilies I have purchased from them are doing great. Some hybridizers will tell you if they think a daylily won't make it in your zone. For example, Dan Hansen of Ladybug Daylilies sends his daylilies to someone in Ohio to check on their hardiness and has a section on his website for his tested Zone 5 hardy daylilies. He will not sell you a daylily that he knows won't do well in your zone. I have been to his garden and I can attest to this personally. Also, there is a link on Cottage in the Meadows' website that shows the Evergreen daylilies that are zone 5 hardy as either tested by them or by other growers in zone 5. I am also participating with their list. You could do the same...

https://cottageinthemeadow.pla...

I checked and I did buy Picasso from a seller in FL and it is Evergreen, however this one is on the Zone 5 hardy list from Cottage in the Meadow so I am very hopeful. All of my plants are mulched, but I will be adding extras to the Evergreens and my butterfly bushes which are on the border for year round hardiness.

Sorry to divert from the purchase of this blog!

Thanks Lynnette! I have been to Cottage in the Meadows with LarryR and I will make sure I add to his list as I see how some of my newer ones are doing and also compare with older ones I know work in Zone 5. I'll have to save it as one of my favorites! He shows Picasso's Intrigue to be Zone 5 hardy so I am really interested in that particular one Until I got on this site I guess I never realized there are evergreen daylilies and I've had them for a very long time now