I only grow two of the ones on your list, one of which is also Insider Trading. It's fairly new in my garden so I can't give you much info on it yet, but here's a photo taken last season. The other one I grow that you asked about is Willie Lyles. I've had it a couple of years and it's done fairly well for me. Maybe not as fast to increase as I'd like, but I'm hanging on to it for a while to give it a fair chance. I do love the blooms. Another photo. Jan

You, too, huh?:((( I am in the midst of a move, and I took several million pots to the new place, but it was too late/too cold to plant. I left them outside, next to a south-facing stucco wall and on a bluestone patio. All seemed well 'til a sudden icy spell hit. Cold and sleet and sleet turning to ice = not good! So I moved everything into our sunroom, which was unheated. But we just had that rooom heated, so I had to move everything again. The hardiest things are back outside, huddled next to the south-facing stucco wall, but others are in the garage. With green showing. :( I think your plants will be fine. Just don't water them again, and try to keep the garage as dark as possible. When did you water them, and how deeply? When to plant -- I recently read an opinion by a daylily grower that one should wait until soil temps are in the 50s. If the soil is too cold, the plants will have real problems getting going. OTOH, you should be able to plop everything (plant and soil in the pots) into a planting hole, so perhaps that advice doesn't apply. Me? I'll be so busy that I probably won't get around to planting til early May some time! Which reminds me....you can bring the pots out in early spring, when air temps start warming up. But be VERY careful about late freezes, cold cold night temps, icy rains, and (IMO) especially important, cool days without sun but with rain or even light snow, which could melt into the soil in the pots. I say especially important since you are more likely to get such weather than the kind of late freeze we had last April. (Aren't you? Cold, wet, grey seems to characterize March and often early April around here.) You can move everything back into your garage if freezes/snow storms are forecast. For cool but rainy/some snow, tip pots on their sides and face them AWAY from the direction of oncoming weather. IOW, until the daylilies are beginning active growth and have a nice several inches of good green showing, you don't want the soil in pots to get very wet. I speak from experience. :(((

Seems no one knows. I know I don't.

I haven't grown very many on your list, but I will add one comment regarding one that I have grown. At least in my garden, All Fired Up was not "apricot and salmon" as per your note. It was a great performer, but definately orange rather than apricot and the eye and edge were red rather than salmon! Here's a picture from my yard even though it isn't as vivid as the flower itself: You may want to look up several different pictures of each one to get an idea of the range of what it might look like. Different growning conditions can affect the overall color. All Fired Up did pretty well in the Georgia heat. It is the darker colors (burgundy, red, dark orange, purple, etc.) that are most affected by the heat. You will have to keep the roots system moist to keep your daylilies happy if your temperatures are in the nineties like they are here, so use lots of mulch to help. Just lighten up right at the base of the plants to help prevent disease. Larry