Valerie - Thank you. Yes! The majority of my seedlings that have survived are the rust-free ones. The summers here are brutally hot and the rusty plants are weakened and often don't survive but a year or two. So there is something to be said for healthy leaves! Those that survive seem to thrive after a few years. But these sibling jumped into overdrive their very first year!
These clumps are something that I rarely experience here. There is something in the gene pool that makes them grow quickly into beautiful clumps. They are evergreen. They became clumps within a year. I don't use anything particular on them either, just sprinkle a little slow-release fertilizer around them is what I do to ALL my plants. But these siblings just took off from the very start! I have 3 siblings and they all have these beautiful clumps!
I am as interested in nice foliage as I am attractive blooms. That quality in seedlings seems to be very hard for me to achieve. I almost feel like I have to have daylilies that "might" grow too quickly into very large clumps somewhere else. There is at least 10 fans in each clump (probably more).
