cybersix said:
It maybe a coincidence or not: I have one DL (always afternoon) that doesn't grow and doesn't bloom, it's in the only little spot of the garden where there was no soil so I used some common garden soil with the usual truck load of peat in it. All the other DLs are living in the original clay soil I found already in the garden. I didn't see many blooms but they all grow and put up new fans. The only one that is exactly as it was when I bought (it was small I have to admit) it's that in peat.
Something to remember with peat moss is that it has very low natural fertillity on its own. However, if you supply it with fertilizer it does hold on to the added nutrients well. But unless yours is unusual clay it likely has more nutrients in it naturally than the peat moss, so if you don't fertilize the peat moss then the plants in it are getting fewer nutrients than those in the clay. I've used peat moss (Canadian) in gardens without any problems, you just have to remember its limitations and work around them. But certainly try your other alternatives. Another possibility might be that the one daylily is in less sun than the others? Having said that 'Always Afternoon' died here but I put it down to our severe winters, it didn't survive the first one.
