Background history:

'So Lovely' is a semi-evergreen diploid introduced in 1969 by Lenington-G.. No further info on this hybridizer other than there are also an additional 138 cultivars registered under the same name.

So Lovely is a mid-season EMO bloomer. It is listed as rust susceptible. It has earned the Honorable Mention: 1974 AHS award.
It is pod and pollen fertile with currently 26 registered children: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'So Lovely') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'So Lovely')

Many people find this cultivar gets spring sickness more reliably than most other daylilies. Despite that it has been a good performer here and I like that the foliage stays green until late in the season instead of getting ratty like many others. It also seems to flower for quite a long time although I've never noted beginning and end dates, that's just an impression.

'So Lovely' suffers severely from 'spring sickness' (ss) here. This year I divided it to see how many fans were in my clump and counted more than 30 fans. They barely produced four scapes due to spring sickness. I'll be checking carefully how well it survives next spring's bout of ss.

There are two other cultivars that rival it for how severely they suffer from spring sickness here. Both of them also have large clumps and barely produce a few scapes with a few buds each year. They are 'Sabra Salina' and 'China Bowl'.

So Lovely produces beautiful blooms. I have two clumps and both are in shady areas. This is because the temperatures here are quite high (in the 90's) when this late bloomer starts the show. Wonderfully scented blooms fill the garden with fragrance. Shade does seem to cause a slight reduction in the amount of blooms produced. Thankfully it has not suffered from spring sickness here, but it will go heat dormant.









May your garden bring you joy!

I don't think I've ever noticed spring sickness on this plant. Not an exceptionally heavy bloomer, but plenty of scapes that provide blooms for a long time. I really like that it is pretty tall, nice for back of the border.

So Lovely is a good performer. It has increased in fans fairly well and the foliage stays nice throughout the season. I can also count on So Lovely to provide me with blooms as the season winds down.

Just looking at everyone's photos, is its texture a crepe? It reminds me of Brocaded Gown.

One of my all time favourites is So Lovely. Difficult to narrow down to just four photos. The first two are same day, morning and evening shots.



They are so fragrant, as well as beautiful to look at. These blossoms always enchant me. And, yes, Glen, they have a crepe texture, but firm and not flimsy.

I have had So Lovely for many years and I don't recall it ever having spring sickness here. I love the fact that it is a later bloomer here. Seems to bloom a long time. Stats are pretty true and the plant is very fertile. It is a very pretty bloom in clump shots.

I saw no scapes until late in the season. The plant looked very healthy just no scapes until almost all others were nearly done. Very late but it is very lovely and that it was my last blooming diploid daylily I really love it. I just bought it late last year.

I planted So Lovely in May 2022, from Sun Dragon Daylilies. SL bloomed from July 25- August 8 with at least 12 blooms. That definitely puts it in the L category here. It ended the season with 8 rust free fans. The bloom is beautiful, a nice classic white.

2023, bloomed from July 23- October 1 with at least 23 blooms. It also doubled in size, ending at 14 fans by October. It also produced a number of proliferations that were rooted and planted. It's well on its way to becoming a healthy clump.

2024 update

For no reason that I can determine, So Lovely did not bloom much this year. The fan count was great, it started with 13 fans but it only had 10 blooms between July 29- August 28. I never noticed Spring Sickness, maybe I wasn't looking for it. I'm mystified, it should have had much more bloom. It's not in the shade or anything.

Possibly it needs to be divided, @Zoia.

Already? I don't think of it as a clump until it is 20 or more! I would call that a fault.

Well, when sellers have a clump sale it seems to refer to three fans or more. When I am looking for "clumps" to divide I consider plants of ten fans or more. I have found it much easier to maintain my plants if I don't let them get too large. They are much easier to care for and work with when they are in that rage of fans. For me, for plants in the 20 fan range are normally way too heavy to work with easily especially those growing in the bog. Of course if I had the space, I sometimes think I would love to have just a few show clumps of selected plants of up to 50 fans.