I do have a seedling from Ed Brown that is a much better grower and increaser and also a lot more hardier. It also has decent branching a bud count.

(CRITIC'S CHOICE X ED BROWN)

Hemlady said:I do have a seedling from Ed Brown that is a much better grower and increaser and also a lot more hardier. It also has decent branching a bud count.

(CRITIC'S CHOICE X ED BROWN)

@Hemlady
I am happy to see a picture of Critic's Choice x Ed Brown. This is the pod parent to my five seedlings started last year from the seeds you sent me.

Valerie, I hope you get some good seedlings from the crosses. This seedling of mine is very hardy and has fairly decent increase.

I am anxious for the snow to melt and I get to see how my seedlings do this year. That is good to hear that your seedling is hardy.

Hemlady said:Valerie, I hope you get some good seedlings from the crosses. This seedling of mine is very hardy and has fairly decent increase.

@Hemlady
The largest seedling in the bed by far is one of the seedlings from
(Critic's Choice x Ed Brown) x Prickled Petals!

Out of the seedlings grown from the seeds I received from Hemlady, the first one to show a scape was Critic's Choice x Ed Brown. I found that scape today, so it looks like it will be an early bloomer here. Just hoping Ed Brown's rust resistance was passed down the line.

I quite enjoyed this daylily. Sadly, is not hardy in my area, and despite my efforts, they took their leave.

Ed Brown was planted in the Spring of 2021. I believe it has grown from one fan to two. EB bloomed from July 6-28 in 2022 with 10 blooms. I must admit to being bored by them. It's just not a very eye catching bloom. I might take it out of its prominent location, or just wait until it succumbs to a hard winter as EB doesn't seem very hardy.

I had this daylily in my garden from 2008 until 2018. I don't recall any rust, the scapes were sturdy and it bloomed about three weeks between mid-June and the first week of July in my zone 6b garden.

6/19/2011, 5pm - This photo was take 3 years after purchasing and it is still only a few fans. By the time I got home from work in the evening, the blooms were curled from being in the sun all day.


Back when there was a local daylily farm in the area, I would try to buy some of the Stout Silver Medals because I thought if it won a medal, it must be a great daylily. However, this one never flourished for me. Registered at 28" tall, it did look nice sitting well above the foliage.
6/26/2014 - mid morning pics seemed to show it at its best.


In September 2016, it sent up a rebloom scape, but for some reason I never got pictures of it in bloom. This rebloom scape shows good branching, but I don't know what the bud count would have been.


The longer I had it, the less I liked it because I realized I don't care for chicken fat edges. While this one doesn't have extensive amounts of it, I still didn't like it.


Several of my pictures show a little sculpting going on even though it isn't listed in the description of the plant. But I'm wondering if it could be one of the forerunners to the many sculpted varieties as seen in 'Behold and Believe' (Ed Brown x Wonder of It All). Maybe that is why Ed Brown has so many children.
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Behold and Believe')

Six years later, Ed Brown is still here. It has gone from 4 fans to the grand total of 7 now. It was up to 9 last fall, but a harsher winter than n ormal cut it back. I am reading it is prone to crown rot. Odd that it is still here because my garden wins prizes in the amount of crown rot my plants get. Wish I knew why. The flowers are always pretty, even this year when I have a lot of deformed ones, probably due to the winter I just mentioned. Dependable bloomer, sometimes reblooms. It will be one that will leave my garden at some point, just because the flowers don't wow me any more.

2023 update… EB bloomed from July 3rd to the 22nd with at least 13 blooms. But by October, it was still only sitting on 3 fans…no increase.