Joan Senior. She is gobbling up valuable real estate like gangbusters. I've lost count of how many scapes she has now. The bloom this year should be profuse and long...Maryl

I have no idea but it is not Last Snowflake. That sucker is still a single fan and that fan is getting traded on Thursday.

Now that I have thought about it some more, Heavenly Angel Ice was a single fan in 2008 and it was 9 fans this spring. The good Tets I got that year have all increased to big 4 fan clumps. These fans look like Florida daylilies. They include Constantinople, Elusive Happiness, and Belle of Ashwood.

Edward

Edward - Last Snowflake multiplies slowly here too, but that slowly. This the fourth season I've had it, and I think it's only 5 fans. But I love it so much, I would never part with it.

Debra

Debra, The Joiner doubles have multiplied the fastest in my garden...Land of Cotton, Savannah Explosion, Dublin Elaine, Big Kiss, Scatterbrain. They each have more fans than I can count. The only exception would be Frances Joiner...it has been slow to increase.
Kathy

Pearl Harbor has gone from 4 fans in 2009 to 12 fans now.
I got one fan of Last Snowflake in August of 2009. It emerged late last year as one fan and this year I thought for sure it was dead, but just today I see it has emerged about 1" from the ground. It was beautiful, but it sure isn't happy here. I got Michael Miller in May 2009. One fan of a double fan had been broken off. Thought it would soon regenerate--no such luck. It's still one fan! I don't even have an accurate count on many of mine because the clumps are so huge and crowded.
Val

Oh, this is an easy question. God Save the Queen went from 2 fans planted last spring to 10 fans this year. What a plant! It is planted in compost-rich soil, mulched with pine straw and enriched with alfalfa pellets. I planted several other new daylilies last spring in the same bed, (Cimarron Rose, Santa's Little Helper, Chang Dynasty, Swan Angel), but none of the others has increased like GSTQ.

Christine

One more comment. This is a very excellent thread. I hope there are lots of posts, because I'm just a gardener (not into hybridizing) and garden performance is what I'm most interested in. Thanks, Debra, for starting this thread.

Christine

Kathy - All the Joiner doubles I have multiply quickly, even Frances Joiner.

Christine - I hope my God Save the Queen will be a good multiplier once I nurse it back to health. It spent the winter in a pot and barely made it.

Another tet that multiplies rapidly is Westbourne Good Old Days. When I got it last spring it was four fans, and now it is 12. I find Moldovan daylilies with some dormancy in them multiply quickly in full sun: Old King Cole, Mutton Jade, Tyrolean Treasure and Wizard's Wish.

Debra

She's probably not the only one but one I can think is Annie Armstrong. This will be the third year in my garden and she is hugh, plus I love her too. I will look around at the others. Judy

Interesting thread. None of my newer one multiplied at all, seems like.
From the older ones, Strutter's Ball and several diploids, like Final Touch.

Beautiful Edgings takes the prize in our garden this year. I can't even count the fans on it, and it is on a non-stop blooming spree.

Nancy

I planted double fans of Fern Stone and Arctic Lace at the same time from the same southern grower. Arctic Lace is still two fans, but Fern Stone has increased to eight.

Oh dear, oh dear. I aplogize to all. My tags are hopeless. I previously posted that GOD SAVE THE QUEEN was my multiplying champion, but now she bloomed and it's SANTAS LITTLE HELPER. Increased from 2 fans planted last spring to 10+ fans now with 10 scapes. On his website, Dan Trimmer says that she's vigorous. He's certainly right. I'll post a clump shot when she really gets going. Meanwhile, here's the FFO.

Christine

Wow, Crazy Ivan is stunning! Love the colour combo. I've only lived in my house for 2 years so the daylilies I've planted haven't been in for a long time yet but so far, of the ones I've planted, CRIMSON PIRATE is multiplying the fastest.
Jason

Reviving this thread to note that while some of my plants haven't increased at all, my THIN MAN had either 2 or 3 fans when I planted it in October 2010, and at the end of July 2011 it has 6. Very happy with this one.

Nate

I have not recorded this statistic consistently. Also, I've not always recorded the number of fans that went into the ground to begin with. However, we're been here 4 years, and I have large or very large clumps of STRUTTER'S BALL, SWALLOW TAIL KITE, GREYWOODS SPIRIT HAWK, TRIFECTA, ISLAND NORTHERN CHARM, FLYING TRAPEZE, MABOU. As I reflect on it, I think the most impressive increase has come from SWALLOW TAIL KITE. Or maybe from GW SPIRIT HAWK. I'll try to keep better records in the future!

RED VOLUNTEER has gone from two fans I bought in this past fall to twelve. It turned out to be one of the best long-term bloomers in the garden.

SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN, new this year, has so many fans I can't count them, but I didn't particularly like its blooms. It may be on its way out next year if it doesn't improve.

Nancy

In June of this year I planted two Children's Festival daylilies I brought at Lowe's for under 4.00 each. One has grown in the normal way and has three or four fans now. The best one as far as the size of the blooms was concerned has done something I have never had a daylily do. I just dug up 25 small daylilies from around it. The largest being 9 or 10 inches tall, and the smallest being 4inches or so, but all very healthy looking looking little plants. They all seemed to have grown from the roots of the mother plant spreading out. I am just overjoyed with this. I retired last year and am just getting my garden going. A friend of my wife let me go over to her house and dig up over fifty daylilies, they were not in bloom and they don't appear to be the reblooing type being they have not bloomed since I planted them. Some of them have grown new fans but none have had seperate little plants around them. Has anyoneelse had this happen with their daylilies? I whish I had thought to take a picture of them all together with the mother plant before transplanting them all.

If I'm understanding you correctly, these look like little seedlings completely separate from your original plant? I don't think I've ever had this happen. Are you sure they are daylilies & not sedge? I think I have the right weed in mind, but it looks very like daylily seedlings. I didn't have sedge in my garden til I brought some home in a plant. Thought it was a plant at first til I later identified it. that is another story though.
Beautiful Edgings has been a great multiplier here for the last 2 years, it is amazing. Wedding Gown has become 3 fans from 1 this year, but it didn't do anything last year.

At first I thought it might be nut grass, so I just let them grow. When I dug them up they seemed to be connected with little roots all leading back to the mother plant. They look like daylilies. I went back and looked through all my other beds and found one more daylily that appeared to have three small plants growing by it. I took a picture in which you can see two of the small plants. Now if I can figure out how to post the picture.

Here is a link that might be useful: Daylily with two samll plants around it

Those do look like daylilies to me.

Last winter I had some kind of grass seedlings popping up in my seedling bed, and it took a while to be sure that they were something different. But yours have a very distinctive daylily look.

Nate

seedfork - they look like the weeds I've been getting all summer here, not sure I've ever had them before. They are popping up where I don't have daylilies nearby too. They feel a little spikey when I pull them out and they come out very easily. Yours may be daylilies, but mine aren't.

I went back out and took a picture of three of the 25 "seedlngs". These are the only three I planted in pots, the others I planted in one of my daylily beds. I looked around for any weeds or grass that resembled a daylily. There were some, but they were all much more "grass like", and not neaarly as stout looking as these "seedlings". I found this statement on the internet.
"The hybrid daylilies sold at garden centers are clump forming and they set seed; they are not stoloniferous like tiger(ditch) lily. You should not fear that they will take over your garden or escape into wild areas". However after reading that, which makes it sound like my Children's Festival could not have set so many small seedlings, I would swear looking at these that they are small daylilies, they even have the "leaf miner look" my daylilies have. I think I will look very foolish raising weeds for the rest of the year. It is not like I don't know what a daylily looks like, I have had them for years. This is just the first time this has ever happened.

Here is a link that might be useful: Potted daylily

Must have done somthing wrong. No picture, let me try this one more time. Sorry. Just how long will I have to grow these possible weeds before I know if indeed they are daylilies?

Here is a link that might be useful:

Seedfork, I could be wrong about yours but I've been pulling little weeds like this all summer. The best way I can tell is if just a little tug pulls them out of the soil. I've come to really like these weeds (if you HAVE to have weeds) because they are so easy to get rid of.

Hope this helps a little.

DD

I sent an e-mail to Olallie Farms, with pictures and got this reply."The last photo of the plants in the ground are probably the Orange Roadside Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva). This particular species has a running spreading habit in which "baby" plants shoot off from mother plants.
I'm pretty sure the potted plants are actually weed though, they look like they have a triangular growth habit of leaves which would make them a sedge which is an invasive weed."
Hope this helps
Chris Darrow
While I am dissappointed, I don't feel so bad about not being able to tell the difference. The reply does say "pretty sure".
So my Children's Festival is not as prolific as I had hoped.