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COLBY COVENTRY is my favorite!

Beautiful!!! Too bad it's evergreen. I try not to buy any of those in my climate any more.

Cindy,
I am going to try Colby Coventry. I like Voyager's color, but I have a rule that I do not buy plants with scapes shorter than 25". Maybe some day I will have a tall raised bed for short daylilies.

I agree about the short scapes. I like them at least 26" or taller.

I like how they do the pedigrees.

Intro prices also seem sane.

Hemlady said:I agree about the short scapes. I like them at least 26" or taller.

I had some here reach 51" this last year.

Easier to see when you're "eye" to eye.

Now that I am more knowledgeable, I do a much better job of making my selections. I no longer buy just because it is the pretty one since I am looking for other features.

Bill is all about the perfect modern form and he knows what the perfect modern form should look like. I know that there are thousands of seedlings that he composts annually because they do not fit the criteria, nor do they appear that they may develop those characteristics.

I for sure want them out of the leaves. Some scapes 26" you can see the flower, some you cant, because the plant gets so big. I think there a couple of people whos intros consistently have short scapes, that baffles me.

gardenglory said:I for sure want them out of the leaves. Some scapes 26" you can see the flower, some you cant, because the plant gets so big. I think there a couple of people whos intros consistently have short scapes, that baffles me.

I like my scapes close to 30". that way I know they will be above the foliage. Can't stand having to look thru a jungle of leaves to find a flower.

Gerry, do the Maryott Daylilies do well for you in zone 5? How close to the registered stats do they come?

Thanks,
Gale

Aesthetically, flowers amongst the foliage can work beautifully. You have to take it case by case. Some are just plain frustrating , however.

Gale, Bill's plants do very well for me regardless of leaf habit. Some take an extra year to acclimate. They are true to the stats; however, the color for Busy Being Blue has not performed well. The patterned flowers are more dramatic than the pictures.

The fans should be planted as early as possible, no later than mid August. Make sure to mulch well. I continue buying beyond mid August, but I pot them and bring them indoors mid November.

I just bought Colby Coventry and the special gift is Broadway Debut.

I really like Colby Coventry and am tempted...

Doris, that was my top pick too! I love it!

So, ladies, buy it.

Gerry, thanks for the info.

Gale

Perhaps the wrong place to ask?

The pictures. I can't do $100 on anything pictured. The pictures ruin the offering for me. I've paid as much and more for a select few.

We all have different tastes and interests. I'm a clump guy, sometimes a bloom guy, but mostly a clump guy. I need to see the scapes and vegetation to make an informed decision. I realize it's not the easiest thing to do with new introductions and it's easier to sell the bloom.

I like California Connection and Satin Stich being a fan of reds and yellows, with preference to CC in regard to height and features. I don't dispute the prices for new introductions but the pictures are artwork compared to what we post as gardeners. Playboy Bunny vs. White Castle waitress can be equally beautiful.. Granted it's all in the make-up and lighting (and marketing) but I want to see the plant. In all it's naked glory. In the sunlight, in the shade, whatever. But to be fair I purchase for stature as much as bloom. Pictures of daylilies in rows don't always work for me but it doesn't hurt.

Nothing against Maryott, I own none of their flowers. And I've seen numerous pics of beauties over the years that came from their gardens. Cheers and congratulations to them and their happy buyers.

Those artsy pictures just don't sell me. I can take a hundred pictures of any single bloom and never replicate that sales line, on any plant. Pie in the sky to me. Flower in the garden beats artwork to me. No need to make any flower prettier than it is.

I recall "Cat Ballou". Can't find it anywhere and the intro pics were beyond incredible, real pics here and elsewhere made a statement. It is a pretty flower. I'd try it but I no longer desire it because it doesn't live up to the artwork from what I've seen here and elsewhere. I'd go as high as 15 bucks based on real time, real world pictures.

Truth in advertising is all I ask for. Some buy the bloom, some buy the plant. I want to see it all, it's why I shop and share here. Real world pictures.

Wes,

It sounds like you have a system that pleases you, and that is very important.

Most daylily buyers, buy the flower. Many buy the credibility of the hybridizer. Some want to hybridize and they buy the genetics of the plant. The latter studies the parentage and the many characteristics that the purchased plant has.

It is a lot of work to be one of the latter, and I know it because I am the latter.

There is plenty of room for all of us with all our differences and motives for buying a particular plant.

Gerry