All of my daylilies are pretty much cheapo or purchased at sales where I got them cheapo but Indian Giver is my favorite and this is where I got it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Eclectic Gardens

Ditto on Indian Giver, aand ?South Seas is another. Don't remember where I got it, but probably Earlybird.
kay

one of the first daylilies i got was from Hoot Owl Hollow Nursery -- RED VOLUNTEER -- and i love it, a nice clear red. i've had it for about 11 years and think i paid only $5 for it. another one i love is GORDON BIGGS (raspberry-red with brighter red eye) -- forget where i got it 4 years ago, but it's really nice and clumped up fast.

enjoy what is bound to become an addiction! and be careful here on this forum -- there's a bunch of enablers here who have no compunction whatsoever about posting drool-worthy photos which have undoubtedly led many of us astray with our budgets. (DH: but there's no food in the house! ME: sorry, i bought daylilies!!! just look at them beauties!!!! besides, you needed to go on a diet....)

Earlybird daylilies does have many very conservatively priced plants and that's a good place to do business with.

I looked at the Eclectic Gardens site-and a few I would recommend from there would be Smokey Mountain Autumn, Avante Guarde, and Trahlyta. And another vote for Indian Giver. It looks like a flock of exotic butterflies when blooming. I have also bought some good cheaper ones from Ladybug Daylilies in Florida. He has an area he calls the Bargin Basement with some cheaper flowers. I've never received a bad plant from him. Maryott can be a bit more expensive, but later in the season, he runs BOGO sales and when you add his generous bonuses, you end out ahead. So if you have a gardening friend you can buy and split the cost of BOGO's to half the cost. That's what my dad and I do. He orders one, I order another and we share. I can't remember where I bought some of my other favorites, but many also came from Dad. Russian Easter, Scratch and Sniff-oh I could go on.....

Roxanna-next time you can feed him salad with daylily petals, daylily soup (kind of french onion base with wilted petals cooked in, and I hear you can eat the tubers too, but I haven't tried that-they are supposed to taste like watercress.

I have to many to list. But I got them all from Gilbert Wild. I guess it would have to be Joan Sr because it is my sister's name.

Here is a link that might be useful: Daylilies

I've had daylilies for a long time, and many I don't remember where I got, or the vendor has long since gone out of business. But these are the cheapos I would recommend:

1. Cherry Cheeks
2. Buttered Popcorn
3. Court Magician
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Moonlit Masquerade
6. El Desperado
7. Wizard's Wish
8. Lavender Stardust
9. Hush Little Baby

10. Autumn Wood
11. Chance Encounter
12. Mauna Loa
13. Betty Warren Woods
14. Siloam Double Classic
15. Forever Red

Debra

Most of my daylilies are cheap :) Too many to list. I recommend Sunset Meadow Daylily Farm.
Where did you order? And which ones? :))

I recommend Earlybird Daylilies. You just can't go wrong buying from Robin and the plants are so reasonably priced. She sends great quality also.

A real cheapo (I think this one cost $5.00) I bought from Robin is CHEDDAR CHEEZE and I just love this glowing golden flower.

Other inexpensive must haves are BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS and SOUTH SEAS.

Yes, Earlybird Daylilies is good! I think they were the biggest plants I ever received.

BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS
FAIRY TALE PINK
PURE AND SIMPLE
ARCADIA PLANTATION
ICE CARNIVAL
ALABAMA JUBILEE
BILL NORRIS
ELEGANT CANDY
These are some of my favorite daylilies and they are mostly under $10.

I couldn't agree more with Earlybird daylilies being a wonderful source. She carries a nice yellow called All in Ruffles that's one of those 5.00 cheapies. It's a good non fading medium yellow color....Good luck....Maryl
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Here is a link that might be useful: Earlybird daylilies

I ordered from Valley of the Daylilies. I read good things about them. With the exception of Wild Wookie they were all $8 or less. Here's what I ordered:

Apple Crisp
Cameo Painting
Canadian Border Patrol
*Curly Twirly Shirley
Egyptian Ibis
New Perspective
Pandora's Box
Nile Plum
Picasso
Pick of the Litter
Radiation Biohazard
Sky Kissed
Splendor
Trahyta
Wild Wookie ($15, What can I say. Dh & I are Star Wars fans)

* They were out of Curly Twirly Shirley, so they offered to refund my money or order another daylily at double the cost or less. So "Fox Ears or Galaxy Explosion ($12) are my alternates.

There are lots of great cultivar suggestions already, so I'll take this in a different direction.

Join a local daylily club. If it's anything like mine, people will occasionally bring in divisions of their plants and give them away as gifts. You can be assured that these plants do well locally because they've already overgrown the space in someone else's garden.

Also, you will probably get a chance at discounts on club group purchases, plant auctions, daylily bingo, and such.

Not to mention, you'll make a lot of new friends. :)

Nate

I ordered from Valley of the Daylilies

That's a good place too! I ordered from them last year and was very pleased with my new plants.

Since I am so new to this they are all my favorites
My cheapos are
Pardon Me .50 from ebay with other seeds and a lily for .89

Strawberry fields forever-walmart $3 for 3+ in a bag

Final touch walmart $3 for 3+ in a bag

I have a ton of seeds on the way from 3 diffrent ebay sellers.

50 MIXED DAYLILY SEEDS Mix of Beautiful Hybrids ( SPROUTED )$11.53

~HYBRID DAYLILY SEEDS ~ 50 for $13.50

50 Mixed Hybrid Daylily Seeds Fresh 2012 crop Hemerocallis about $10

and from a GW trade
Razzamatazz
Kwanza

I like a bargain now I can wait on all the seeds to bloom in a few years.

Did I mention Im bidding on more daylilies buy 10 or more and shipping is free.Bidding starts at .99 woot...

Don't worry I can stop anytime I want.....hehehehe

I forgot I bought Trahlyta from Eclectic too and she is lovely. I recently purchased Green Flutter and Night Beacon too but they are new so can't comment on them.

I missed it this year but the last two years I went to a local Master Gardener sale where the Columbia River Daylily club had a booth and was selling bare roots for $5!

Pdsavage, did Walmart ones bloom true to name? I got several of those bags too before I knew better ;) and they were some other daylilies. All lived and grew well though.
And Kwanza, if it's what I think it is, I would not plant it with the other daylilies :)

nat4b I will plant the Kwanza by the side porch and driveway its between the house and driveway so wont get far at all.Its being planted with my orange daylilies from the old house.They never spread the 15 years we where at the old house

As to the walmart ones I just got them a week so ago,no blooms yet.

Im not to picky if they don't bloom true to name,im going to be crossing them with other ones anyway.

Im in it for the diffrent colors/type/forms ect ect I can make.

I'm starting out with pretty cheap ones too. If I do well with those, then I may try some fancy ones. I'm leaning toward SOUTH SEAS, INDIAN GIVER, and PRIMAL SCREAM, and maybe another vivid orange one.

Has anyone grown BIG KISS or BELA LUGOSI? I'm also interested in those and they look pretty in the pictures!