Sounds like you are going to have a beautiful garden this year. You made some beautiful choices in your daylilies. I have Stawberry Candy, Awesome Blosson, and Cherry Valentine.All 3 are great performers for me.

Jan

I hope you will be happy with your order. They have a very poor rating at Garden Watchdog.

My experience w/R & R wasn't so bad (I've only bought perennials from them), and fortunately DLs are so tough, that as long as you get the right plants they'll probably be fine. I have Navajo Princess - it's lovely.

I've been ordering from Roots & Rhizomes for many years and have had great success. Being in WI, the shipping doesn't take long, and the plants are fresh.

I don't get much rebloom here, probably because our growing season is shorter than in the warmer zones.

I have Strawberry Candy and Canadian Border Patrol - both fantastic! Ordered Navajo Princess, can't wait to see that one bloom.

I've never ordered so many of one kind, as you have. Whatever you have planned should look spectacular. Make sure to post some pictures when they're all blooming!

Have a wonderful Easter everyone,

Julie

I couldn't find a selection I liked as much anywhere else I looked. I thought Roots and Rhizomes is expensive but I didn't want to settle for Daylilies I didn't want as much so just bite the bullet and pay up.

I have ordered bareroot daylily fans by mail order in years past but not for a long time and not from here.

I ordered many of those multiples because it doesn't sound as if they send you much, saying one to two fan divisions. I got used to buying and planting the potted daylilies you get at the local nurseries come early summer and they make a descent effect right away.

So here is what I am planning--

9 Strawberry Candy to be planted in a row in back/front of a long row of lavender making a lavender hedge I have had for years. Garden bed can be viewed from both sides so daylilies would be in back or in front of lavender, depending on where you are looking from. However, I mostly look at it from my house looking back into the yard so then it would be in back.

6 Navajo Princess and 6 Awesome Blossom to go in my newly redone garden by my back door that I call my kitchen garden. Last year I took out and moved everything growing there. Then I put blocks and made the back part into a raised garden (up against a retaining wall covered in ivy). In front of the raised part I put a row of pink/white blend Floribunda roses. I am going to put the daylilies staggered one NP, next AB, next NP, next AB and so forth as the front row of the raised part. Then I have bought myself at the local nursery some summer bulbs like orange Dinner Plate Dahlias, hardy lilies, Freesia, Crocosmia and Ranunculus which will be the very back.

I was trying for a cottage garden effect here. Also to try and make it easier to visualize the row of lavender is at the top of the ivy retaining wall as my property has multiple levels. So standing at my kitchen door I will be able to get the full effect.

3 Mardi Gras Parade are going to be planted to make one (hopefully) large clump to extend the daylily part of a garden I am working on in my front yard on the driveway side. It was mostly shrubs and I wanted more color so bought six nice potted daylilies last summer locally (Bold Tiger, Jolyene Nichole and Lime Frost, two clumps each).

3 Canadian Border Patrol are going in another area in the front yard were last year I planted potted from the local nursery two Rocket City and two Spellbinder. Border Patrol will be planted in one big clump. I am just starting on that particular garden and have people coming this week to dig out the last of a horendous barberry hedge that is old and overgrown with vines and crap. Instead I am going to put up some metal trellis' from Home Depot and plant vining honeysuckles on it. Planted around the trellis' I intend to put daylilies at the feet of the vines, which idea was already started with the ones already there. Again this garden area will be able to be viewed from both sides of the bed so eventually I will need more daylilies to finish it.

The Cherry Valentines I will use as fillers here or there in my yard.

I really like the cottage garden look and have been working on redoing my yard since 2000. I started with lots of strubs and that took years. I did do some flowers and lots of honeysuckle vines (another favorite), added lots of roses, and am now working on even more color by adding gardens and extending gardens.

That sounds like it'll be really beautiful when you're done. You've got a vision in your mind and you're going for it. I hope you do post pics when they're in and growing with everything else you've got and the roses.
I like the cottage garden look too.

Did you check Marietta Gardens? Ive never seen a selection like they have. You might want to check them out if you plan on ordering some more.

Thanks for the suggestion. So far I have resisted ordering more as I have lots of planting with what I have already in the works. I doubt that all my ideas wil be able to be done this year so I will just do what I can and go on from there. When I look at my yard now, I can't belive all that I have gotten done since my garden redo started. Even so, there is much left to do before it looks like what I have in mind. I don't have the time, energy or money to do it all at once.

Well, my order from Roots and Rhizomes just came today in a big box.

Even though everything seems to be only one fan (which is what they advertised) they are packed very well, bagged and marked so that you can not get your varieties mixed up. Plus all have really nice root systems. I am sure they will grow well and thrive.

If I order more daylilies this year, I will order from Oakes or Marietta Gardens, both places I didn't know about before but were recommended here on Garden Web.

Now to get them planted in the next few days. Tomorrow is out as its supposed to rain.

I just looked at the website for Roots and Rhizomes. Do you mean that each order, such as $15 for Awesome Blossom is for one fan? So for 3 fans, which is says $13, you paid $39 for 3 fans of Awesome Blossom?

Yep, that is correct. I figgured they were pretty expensive but I didn't know were else to order.

Don't worry about it. We all live and learn. You may have burned a few hundred, but that doesn't compare to the thousands many of us have lost.

I figgure I overpaid but I wouldn't say I lost anything. They look healthy with lots of big roots and I know they will grow. By next year, they will fill in, you know how daylilies are. And they are all really beautiful varieties that I can not get at the local nurseries.

I do want to get some more for afew other spots and will look at Marietta and Oakes when I have a chance.

Well, I started planting them today. Out of the whole darn order you think they could have given me at least ONE double fan? No way. They gave me some free plant markers (don't use that kind), some free dried up sneezeweed (didn't want it) and afew free pixie lily bulbs. At least I can plant the lily bulbs so they are not a waste.

I potted up the three Canadian Border Patrol, the spot for it is not ready and I am going to put them in one clump anyway.

The Cherry Valentine went in a section of garden were I am doing Floribuda roses and the three fans went in the same small area but not in what would look like one clump. They are going to have to fill in one their own.

The three Mardi Gras Parade I planted out in the garden in one clump near some daylilies I had bought last year just to expand that section.

The Strawbery Candies need some lawn grass dug out to widen a garden bed were they are going so they should be the last in.

The other two, Awesome Blossom and Navajo Princess go in a garden I made last year were there is nothing yet so shouldn't be that hard to get them planted.

Back outside to work I go.

Hurray!!! All Daylilies planted. I am already looking at Oakes Daylilies and Marietta Gardens Daylilies for another batch of daylilies. I have three spots in mind which need large (to me) groupings of daylilies.

Good for you! I hope they do well and fill in nicely.
You won't be disappointed if you give Marietta's a try!

Hi Newyorkrita,
I'm surprised and sorry to hear that you only received one fan of each daylily ordered from Roots & Rhizomes.
I received my order from them two days ago and received double fans of all. It's sometimes hard to tell, because they were barely waking up from the root system. Maybe you actually DO have some dbl fans of some. Once they start growing and showing leaves you may be surprised.

Happy gardening!

Julie

I think I do have two of them with a double fan coming up. Its really had to tell as they were so chopped down to the roots on those particular plants that there was no green fan showing at all.

Another plant of the one fan divisions had the smallest roots and barely a twinge of green fan and that green has since shrivelled up to nothing. I sure hope it pops up from the roots.

I can tell you that I will not be ordering from this company again.

Well, I didn't realize I already had Cherry Valentine from RR and ordered it again from Marietta because the picture in the RR catalog looked nothing like the picture from Marietta. As I have seen others post pictures of their Cherry Valentine blooms, I can see that Marietta has it correct.

Anyway, the ones from Marietta are sending up bloom scapes while the ones from RR, like the other Daylilies I got from them, are struggeling along just to make green leaves. I sure hope they are able to at least grow roots and get something going from the root system later in the year.

I know I am being impatient but after seeing the quality of plants I got from Marietta vs RR and the way the Marietta Daylilies took off right away, I want everthing to grow quickly.

I was just looking at the Strawberry Candies from RR and thinking they look pretty good. One has even sent up a second fan.

Two out of my row of 12 that I made by staggering the Awesome Blossom and Navajo Princess are gone. One had no scapes when I planted it and nothing ever came up. The other had a wisp of a tiny scape buit I see now that it has shriveled up and dissapeared.

Might these still come up from the Daylily roots or are they gone for good?

If there's no green left, they're probably gone for good. You can try to get R & R to replace them...

My favorite place to order plants from is Jordan's Daylilies. Marietta is also very good.

Here is a link that might be useful: Memory Jordan

One of the Awesome Blossoms has an open flower so thats a preview of the coming attractions.

I have a Strawberry Candy flower open today. What a lovely flower, I really like it. You have to remember that I have seen almost none of these daylilies blooming in person, just pictures. So I am always happy when the flower blooms and I really like it.

I only have 8 of the 9 Strawberry Candies I bought from them because as with the others I planted from them, one of the plants shriveled up and dissappeared never to be seen again. Bummer.

I have had afew flowers off and on from the Strawberry Candies. They have an orange tone to me but I really like them. I only have seven of the 9 plants as two dissapeared. At least the rest seem to be doing well.

I also had some blooms and more to come from the Cherry Valentines I ordered from them. Those are all three doing well. PLus I also have another flower on Canadian Border Patrol, had one a few days ago, this is the second. Looks nice so maybe those plants will come to something yet.

What I have been most dissapointed in are the row I put in of Awesome Blossom and Navajo Princess. They both flowered afew times and all I can say is I never would have bought them if I knew they were going to look like this. I hope they get better.

Maybe we need patience with AB, NYRita. I have a 3fer got from Uncle Bill M last year. 2 are SF. One bloomed 1 about 3" scape earlier. Don't remember my opinion of flower. 3rd tf now and just now sending 2 scapes. One will bloom this week. We'll see.

hemboy- Were have you been? I haven't seen you posting for a very long time.

The Awesome Blossoms and Navajo Princesses are not going anywere and I hope that by next year they will be much better.