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Well, I am not much of a record keeper myself. But I did note the first flower to bloom on most of my daylilies for the first time ever this year, I don't have that many. I also happened to notice that one bloomed much longer than the others, and that it had not missed a day that I had noticed, yesterday was the last day for consistent bloom. I try to get out in the garden every day, but that is not always possible There are more buds developing so there will be more blooms, just not consistant bloom. So if you walk out into your garden and write down the FFO and three months later you notice that plant is still churning out the blooms, weather you have records or not, let me know. It doesn't have to be officially recorded, but I noticed that most of my daylilies quit blooming after a very short period, and I can't tell you how long. I am just asking for the outstanding ones people almost have to notice because they are such outperforming, and if they have all those records that is even better. And I am also interested in learning if instant re-bloom, re-bloom, bud building account for the length of bloom on those specific varieties, if known.
What happened in 2012 and 2013 would be just as interesting to me as what happened in 2014, I would love to find daylilies that show up year after year as top long term performers. I am new to daylilies and I grow them for the garden, so I would like to avoid buying ones that are beautiful but just have a few blooms over the entire season, I am not interested in those at all.
But, I find it interesting that we have had a similar untypical "suco" year, something we have not seen here for at least ten years also, so maybe the ones that do well there are not such long shots to do well here also. I love to think that this is a really bad year, not so much for daylilies but my roses have just been pathic after the first flowering, not much to show since then. However, my Hostas are having the best year ever.
I do think here in zone 8b (I do realize USDA zones are not that meaningful for daylilies)that most of the daylilies that do well in your area would also be fine here, maybe not all but the great majority.My blooming season for daylilies is not all that much different from yours, naturally yours is some longer. Like I said earlier I have only a few daylilies (comparatively speaking) so not a lot of very early or very late blooming plants so if I expand my varieties I could extend my season a little. Looking back at last years pictures I had blooms starting in late March though late September. That was not the case for the early part of the year this year, I did not have my first blooms this year till near the end of April.
So I would love to have any Daylily names from you that have bloomed for an estimated time of a month or more, and any stats you did happen to keep, and I think a lot of others could benefit from them also.
