Question on Clear Mountain Morning and Quartz Rainbow

16 years ago

Stamile is advertising Clear Mountain Morning and Quartz Rainbow as the new "Stella de Oro's"

If they rebloom like Stella, they will be a welcome addition to Northern Gardens.

As I read their profiles, I have two concerns.

First, they are both evergreens. Most of the known consistent rebloomers in the North are hard dormants.

Second, Quartz Rainbow has a budcount of 55.

On the one hand, Wonderful! Awesome!

On the other hand, getting a daylily with a budcount of 55 to consistently rebloom in the North will be a truly a freek-of-nature of a daylily.

Is anyone growing these two daylilies? How has your experience been with both of these daylilies so far?

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gonegardening
16 years ago
You know, southdakotadaylily, if you don't already...you should join the AHS Robin. There are a lot of northern growers on there. One I'm thinking of in particular is in Canada and I have seen them post often on the Robin...they have a lot of Stamile daylilies. I bet they would even have private email conversations with you about your concerns.

Just a thought...I think you'll get a lot more responses from people who grow the latest dayliles...plus, Mr. Stamile himself often posts and is a wealth of information.

Take care now.
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ladylovingdove
16 years ago
I have both of these that I acquired early this spring. They are just starting to bloom, so how could anyone know how they are going to rebloom this early, when they are this years intros? And wouldn't a lot of rebloom mean you have to have a long growing season. I will see how they do here this year. BUT they are new plants so they won't perform as well as established plants anyway.

Dot
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alpha_5
16 years ago
southdakotadaylily,

We have more Stamile daylilies in our garden than any other hybridizers and next week there will be 33 more. There are a few that seem less tolerant of their new zone 5 home than the rest, but I don't think I have ever lost one.

We don't have anything that approaches Stella for rebloom, but we are getting several that have immediate rebloom on a second set of scapes.

I don't believe that Quartz Rainbow will have 55 buds this far north but I would be surprised if the scape is not very, very good. If it did produce that many buds per scape I wouldn't care if it rebloomed or not.

If you have never ordered directly from Floyd Cove you owe it to yourself to do so at least once. We get many nice plants from the south but no one sends plants Like FC. I told them once that if they sent larger plants they would have to ship them north on a logging truck and I would need a tree spade to plant them!

Dale
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avonlady
16 years ago
George,

Asked on your previous thread if you are currently growing any northern-hardy rebloomers? Just wondering what kind of luck you've had so far if you do... Thank you.
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southdakotadaylily
Original Author
16 years ago
Dale and Dot, thanks for the reply. Let me know how Clear Mountain Morning and Quartz Rainbow do this year for you.

Avon Lady, sorry, didn't mean to ignore you. This is only my second year growing northern rebloomers.

Last year, here in South Dakota, I had Stella D' Oro, Pardon me, Apricot Sparkles, Red hot returns, and Happy Returns rebloom for me here.

Also, Autumn Red is a late bloomer (end of July here), but once it started blooming it bloomed until the frost killed it in Late September.

I planted a number of other possible rebloomers last fall, so I will keep you posted as to what reblooms this summer.

Happy Gardening,
George
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ladylovingdove
16 years ago
I finally got some good pictures of Quartz Rainbow, nights too cold. No rebloom yet still original stalks. No good pictures of Clear Mountain Morning yet due to thrips damage.
Bud count not high, due to being new plants.

Dot

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