kimkats said:Hi Alex I too can't wait to see your pics, your place sounds wonderful What a cute puppy Spirit is Just wanna give him a big ol smooch
tink3472 said:WELCOME ALEX Glad you have decided to start posting
Dragonfly Dawn should be a good size come shipping time; I am juicing it JUST KIDDING, but we do fertilze all winter so it should be good. I am surprised how it shrank down after it split and was divided though.
philljm said:I got Strikingly Dramatic late this summer from Maryotts - and got some beautiful reblooms from it this fall. It will be interesting to see how my 2012 Maryott's survive. I am sure a lot will depend on how cold it gets here, so far we are pretty warm for December - although we have been down to almost single digits this year too. I have my daylilies mulched pretty heavily with leaves - but now I am worrying because the weather has been too warm - and the heavy mulch may not be so good this year.
But you are correct, you may find that your weather zone may limit you to the hardier plants. Did you contact Maryott's about your problems?
By the way, which direction does your hillside mostly face? North, south east west? That may be part of it too. 4b is a pretty cold zone. ~Jan
ARoseblush said:
Tink!
You have just over 4 months to juice 'Dragonfly Dawn' in a large healthy fan. You are making me very nervous!
virginiarose said:First of all, 'Strikingly Dramatic' is the first daylily I have seen in this database with no 'Foliage type' listed?
Is it dormant or evergreen? Second, I have never heard of Maryott's sending a single fan. Is this normal?
Ladylovingdove said:Alexandra,
I just looked to see what you bought from me. OMG I hope they germinated, you paid a pretty penny for all your seeds. I see you won two auctions from Can't Touch This, good luck, and let me know how they do.
Next spring I have bought Nicole's "I Can't Stop". It is a child of CTT and is very beautiful.
I can't wait to get all her beauties next spring.
Dot
ARoseblush said:
Susan:
I find this to be strange as well. Here is Bill Maryott's description if 'Strikingly Dramatic' from his website. No mention of foliage type in description:
(Maryott 2010) 28 inches tall, EMRe, 5.5 inch flowers, fertile Tetraploid. Cream (RHS 19B) with purple eye (RHS 187A) Yellow green throat. Cream "petalets" extending from the normal petals. Open form. Strong grower, good branching, about 18 buds per scape and lovely in the garden. You can easily tell this is NOT my form. I love round "bagel forms" . I do occasionally make "exotic" crosses though and this one came from GERDA BROOKER crossed with my own open form seedlings from OFF BEAT. We expect a very high demand for this cultivar so don't wait too long before reserving it. Parentage: G1204A: [E189A (OFF BEAT X CATCHER IN THE EYE)] X GERDA BROOKER.
It is definitely an EV.
I ordered it in June, 2010 along with 'Red Slippers' which also has never bloomed for me, and 'Raspberries in Cream' which died this Spring. Bad luck? Maybe. Out of the 200 daylilies I have planted I have only lost 2 other plants, and that was probably due to the fact that I planted them in mid September. I learned from those 2 I lost, not to plant anything after August in VT. And the Winter of 2010 was a hellacious one with tons of snow and bitter cold temps. "Raspberries in Cream' was planted in July. It just may be, that Maryott's plants and my zone 4b arn't a good mix. I gave all his bonus plants to my wonderful Postmaster who also grows daylilies on a farm. I haven't asked him if they survived, but I will next time I am down in the Valley. The bonus plants were 'orange-eyed' daylilies, and I can only take so much orange in my life. I only have 3 orange daylily plants in my garden. All other colors, mixtures, eyes, pastels, butterflies, purples,blues, pinks, reds, black, yellows, white and greens, I adore.
Anja said:Hi Susan, thank you . I have bought seeds from Tink and Farmerbell and several other LA seed sellers and I am VERY happy with my seeds. The seedlings are already growing.
philljm said:Alex, no problems not getting back to me sooner.
Nice that you have a south facing slope. And I do hope you get snow - it will make all the difference for those daylilies - they would prefer to be blanketed and protected by snow.
I've had daylilies for about 4-5 years now. Initially I didn't understand what Dor, SEV and EV meant - so I ignored it. Then when I did know, I tried to buy only dormants, with the occasional SEV. But over the last few years, with their foliage habit is like is not as important to me as other factors. I find some grow here, some don't - regardless of what they are. Some of my EV's grow as well, or even better than my dormants. Heck, some of mine that grow poorly, i pass them on to a friend 30 miles away, and they are gorgeous (and vice versa). I do pay attention if a hybridizer or seller or an ATP member makes a comment about where a daylily will grow or won't grow.
I figure that no matter what, I will probably lose a few every year. I also like to push their zones a bit, just to see if they will do well for me. But I will admit that I am not spending hundreds of dollars on a single cultivar either. ~Jan