Judy, sorry for the delay in getting back to you!
„Can you share a couple photos/names of the ones that you have that bloom all summer and are your "edge-no eye" ones?”
The AHS doesn’t define ‘edge-no-eyes’ and it seems to mean different things to different people. On forums, some don’t consider a daylily without an eye, but with a yellow edge to qualify, since yellow edges are so common. Others rule out ‘selfs’ (a daylily that has the same color for petals, sepals and edge, though the throat may be a different color). But, I personally define it as any daylily without an eye, but with an edge. In any event, here are the three that are continuous bloomers in my garden for about 5 months.
1.Rice’s „Memorable Kiss”
This daylily provided an epiphany of sorts for me 4 years ago, because it’s never out of bloom. It begins blooming around the summer solstice and continues until the end of November/beginning of December. (There may be a day or so in early November when there are no blooms, but it keeps on pumping out blooms until cold weather – well: what we consider is cold in la-la-land : ) – sets in.) Here’s another pic from my garden in late October:
You also ought to take a look at the hybridizer’s pic that California Sue posted on ATP:
I thought I was buying a red-edged, no-eye daylily, rather than one with a lavender edge. But, at least in my experience, there’s really no sure way to predict colors, and OldGardener proves the point in the post above with 2 pix from a single divided clump! (My fabulous clump of „Memorable Kiss” is grown in dawn-to-dusk direct sunlight.)
2. Kirchhoff’s „Breaking the Rules”
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At most there has been a 5 day break between rebloom scapes flowering. Highly reliable –in *my* garden – from late April/early May to mid-November. It’s also statuesque here, the longer scapes being 48” tall, rather than the registered 30”. It also tends to produce winter blooms, but they’re not particularly interesting, as is true of all winter-blooming daylilies.
3. Kirchhoff’s „Wild About Sherry” (Click
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Wild About Sherry') ) and here:
This is also a reliable re-bloomer for 5 months, but there may be a 7-10 day period before rebloom scapes open up. I’m also not sure whether I should include „Wild About Sherry” in edge-no-eye daylilies, since there is a yellow band that appears on particularly cold nights/cool days:
So, maybe it just should fall into the general rebloomer category, even though it’s more prolific – almost non-stop - than my other rebloomers. Other standouts, which take a 2-3 week break between rebloom are:
Bomar’s „Dinett Sue” (a sublime dip),
Carpenter’s „Divinely Blessed” (a dip),
Huben’s „Early and Often” (a dip),
Rice’s „Frequent Comment” (very heavy substance, and appropriately named),
Stamile’s „Lemon Parchment,” (great plant habit)
Fred’s/Spunky’s „Lillian’s Fringe Benefits”,
Petit’s „Lindan Toole,”
Grace-Smith’s „Linda’s Magic,”
Carr’s „Living in Luxury,”
Salter, E.H.’s „Make Believe Magic” (the texture looks like velvet)
Kirchhoff’s „Ming Porcelain,”
Salter’s „Moon Over Monteray” (a sculpted tet),
Carpenter’s „Peach Magic” (a fabulous dip; see ATP pic from me),
Dan Hansen’s „Pink Intrigue,” (it’s a silvery pink & looks other-worldly)
Pryor’s „Peach Rum Festival (a double & a dip that begins blooming in mid August and ends at Thanksgiving),
Stamile’s „Ricter,”
Wilson’s „Rose Mary Dixon” (an enchanting dip),
Kinnebrew’s „Spacecoast Fancy Dancer,”
Salter’s „Spanish Glow” (which proves simplicity can be an asset),
Stamile’s „Tropical Experience,”
Ra Hansen’s „Tuscawilla Princess” and „Tuscawilla Tranquillity” (both are dips),
Stamile’s „Voila Francois” („VF” along with Stamile’s „Lemon Parchment” are superb because of their plant habit).
Judy, I don’t know how helpful any of this will be to you, since you’re in an entirely different micro-climate than I am. I have family that I visit in Davis, so I do know how extraordinarily hot Sacramento gets not just in the summer, but in the spring, too! I’ve never experienced ‘summer dormancy’ in the mild Bay Area climate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you did.
In the meantime: how do you like our weird summer rain? : ) In the last 3 decades I don’t remember ever having rain at the end of June (and more is forecast for tonight & tomorrow!).
Old Gardener: is So Cal also getting rain? I kept humming an ‘oldie’:
“It never rains in California,
But girl, don’t they warn you,
It pours, man it pours.”
:)
All the best! Elizabete
