Persian Market TET
MUNSON-R.W.
Year: 1969
Height: 2'3"
Diameter: 7"
Season: Mid
Fragrance: Fragrant
Fertility: Pod: Yes (2) Pollen: Yes (6)
Habit: Evergreen
Rebloom: Yes

Color/Descript:
deep rose with rose red eyezone and gold throat
Parentage:
(MILANESE X sdlg.)

You can use the link below to see photos in Tinker's database. Just search 'Persian Market' for details.

Here is a link that might be useful: Tinker's Database

Hi, Harry, welcome to the daylily forum! You've got a classic hybridized by one of the daylily greats to go with all your classic roses. Watch out, though. Soon you may be digging up some roses so you'll have room for more daylilies.

PERSIAN MELON

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Ahem! That would be PERSIAN MARKET!

Oh I obtained that Persian Market last October and I hope it looks as lovely as the pic of it in Oakes Catalogue. (I did not get it from Oakes catalogue just liked its pic of it!)

Random harvest,

I can understand your typo because that bloom looks good enough to eat. Does that color hold up in full sun? I have been digging up roses the last two years. Midge, fungal diseases and beetles make roses a high-maintenance option.

Now that repeating daylilies are common, I think they deserve a bigger role in my garden. How much repeat is there? Is the fragrance for real? I find the fragrance of Hyperion notable and pleasing.

Thanks for your replies.

My PM is in afternoon shade, so it's colorfast for me. That bed is mostly builder-fill and pecan-tree roots, and PM's there because of its shade tolerance. So far, it hasn't rebloomed for me, but since it gives me two to three weeks of great color in a tough spot, I don't ask for more. Funny, fragrance is *very* important to me in roses, but I don't seem to go around sniffing my daylilies.

Rebloom is a mystery to me. I've had cultivars rebloom that aren't supposed to and vice versa.

Sorry you're having rose trouble. So far, we don't have Japanese beetles down here (knocking on wood).

Hi Harry,
I live in Willow Grove, Pa, probably have somewhat similar conditions to yours and my established Munsons do not rebloom. However they do increase well and a clump will produce quite a show. Be careful daylilies are addictive. You'll be digging out a lot of roses before you know it.

Heidi

Heidi,
I lived in Willow Grove for awhile. Also Abington, Jenkintown and Prospectville. Its a bit cooler up here. We are just north of Quakertown.

Maybe some of the "secret" ingredients in Rose Tone will produce reblooming and fragrance.

Random harvest,
Funny, I can't smell that much scent in roses, but lilacs, viburnums and butterfly bush are potent. I can smell Hyperion, so I'll be hopeful about Persian Harvest.

Harry, Daylilies are much easier than roses and the newer varieties in the past ten years are striking. There are more flower forms, colors and patterns than ever. Plus, they are easy to get mail order in case you get the urge to buy some more. Just be careful and ask about southern evergreen daylilies, some are great up north here but others are not.

I live in mid MO and have two clumps of Persian Market one in sun and one part shade. It has held its color well both places. It's a nice daylily.

I have several clumps of Persian Market as I bought it in bulk several years ago from a lady on e-bay. I absolutely love it, and believe it or not, one of my clumps DID put up one rebloom scape for me last year. I have never smelled mine..will have to make it a point this year. Mine are in full sun and hold color perfectly, but I don't think that PNW sun really counts! It is definitely a good one to encourage a future daylily junkie!

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Julie

Persian Market is one of my most reliable rebloomers. It's a good multiplier too. You'll have a nice clump in no time.

Harry, nice to meet you here. I also grow this one. It is healthy and happy daylily for me with no repeat. I know your JB situation is as bad as my, so just a word of caution. I have many daylilies and it was all fine for 10+ years, but two years ago my JBs added daylilies to their diet. They still prefer roses, but daylily blooms suffer too. Our JB pressure is too high. They try to find new food sources. The same happend with many other flowers that they used to ignore, for example clematis.
Olga

Julie,
Great garden shot. I've got to get some blue in that bed so these pinks will spring out like yours.

Olga,
Thanks for cheering me up. Last summer was pretty mild beetle-wise. I'm hoping for a repeat.

I put the two PM's on one side of my path. I thinking about the other side. Can anyone suggest another daylily which would look good with Persian Market? Although I could get a third PM, maybe something similar with a red or wine colored bloom that's likely to be available at a local nursery.

Sorry, Harry. Looking back it was mean on my part.
Olga

How about OLIVE BAILEY LANGDON, another Munson that's a deep, rich purple? Add some shasta daisies and a couple of nice near-whites like GENTLE SHEPHERD or ICE CARNIVAL to tie them all together. These are all golden oldies that I've seen offered locally around here.

"Can anyone suggest another daylily which would look good with Persian Market?"

How about Curt Hanson's BELA LUGOSI? Like PM, it's a midseason bloomer, a beautiful dark purple. Easy to find, not expensive. Gorgeous daylily.

Another purple to consider (MAYBE!) is a Moldovan, STRUTTER'S BALL. I say maybe because I've found that it prefers some afternoon shade. Perhaps a better choice is DERBY BOUND, an older Wild daylily (1967). I bought clumps of both of these last summer. To my surprise and delight, DERBY BOUND was completely happy in a south-facing, full-sun spot -- not a sign of colors fading or running. And it's the color you want, a "purple red wine."

And it's available to you locally....

....you're not too far (all of about 25 minutes) from Teich and McColgan, a good place to buy daylilies in clumps. They're in Chalfont. Go next summer and see what's in bloom. I bought both STRUTTERS BALL and DERBY BOUND there. Then, while you're at it, make an appointment to visit the AHS display garden right around the corner from Teich - Creveling Daylily Gardens, in Perkasie. I go there every summer, usually multiple times. And then I end up ordering...and ordering...and ordering!

Here's a link to the AHS web page on its display gardens for region 3; scroll down and you'll find the Creveling garden info:

http://www.daylilies.org/AHSreg3.html#R3gardens

And yes, harryshoe, you and I are kind'a neighbors....I'm just above Point Pleasant. Maybe I have extras of DERBY BOUND, if that's the one you want. I haven't checked in yet this year, but many of the clumps that Teich sells are BIG. I think the DERBY BOUND clump may have been one of those.

'Tho not as big as the clump of CARTWHEELS I got there....I don't think anybody ever wanted that daylily, so the clump had sat there, getting bigger...and bigger...and bigger. I'd no idea they were giving me THAT clump! I'd have been quite satisfied with a nice double or triple fan. It took two men to get it into the back seat of my car. And my husband figures the clump, with soil 'round the roots, weighed about 100 pounds! We got it into a wheelbarrow, and then just tipped it, in the huge plastic garbage bag the guys put it in, into the nearest empty spot in the nearest garden bed. And there it sat, all winter. Now I have to figure out how to plant it!