As Becky mentioned, Seattle Dreaming is an evergreen plant. At the time I purchased it, I was looking for a 30" red, that bloomed extra early, and preferably rebloomed, to front my Red/Gold daylily bed. It seems like David Kirchoff has spent a lot of time perfecting red, and everything else matched my needs, except it's an evergreen, which can be iffy in my zone 5 garden. I gave Seattle Dreaming a chance.
For an evergreen, I'm really happy with the height and bud count. I get scapes at the registered height (32"), and my best scapes are in the upper teens, very close to the 19 it's registered. I don't get rebloom here, yet, but not many of the nicer plants do. And it doesn't bloom EE here. It starts blooming here between July 1 and July 12, which would make in Early to Mid-ish typically. It's a beautiful red color and provides enough blooms to last over 5 weeks for me, when the National Drought Monitor doesn't have a big orange dot over my house.
So I'm still looking for a new red EE, but this one is a good performer in so many ways for me, I'm going to keep it for a while. I'm wondering if I cross it with Hanson's Mercury Lounge if I can create a bloom that is so hot it spontaneously combusts on sunny days.
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