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Seedfork said:Just curious, because I have a few very short daylilies, and I was thinking they would come in handy for hiding the often raggedy lower parts of zinnias. Is it the general habit of the shorter varieties to not hold the blooms up out of the foliage. I was hoping the shorter plants might just have shorter foliage and yet still have a scape high enough to hold the bloom up a bit.

Again, trial and error. Some of the shorter ones do have shorter foliage proportionately and do fine. Others have the big tall heavy foliage with the bloom too low to look right. I have had a few favorites that I liked the bloom well enough, I took time to trim the foliage back around the scapes. This looked ok (trimmed the different lenghts-staggered, rather than cut off all one length) and did not seem to adversely affect the plant. But it's a lot of trouble to do that if you have do very many.