If the foliage is too tall for the spot,yank 'em.Replant them around your mailbox if you fell you should keep them. They don't sound like Stella to me. Mine start blooming in June and end in Oct.,resting a week or so between flushes of scapes.

I've never seen a tall Stella d'Oro, but I have seen fairly tall black-eyed Stella. Does it matter? Plant something you like there, and replant your "Stellas" in a nice spot, or even in a big pot you can put on the deck or the porch.

Lainey

If you decide you don't want them, maybe you could "accidentally" get Roundup on them when you are spraying the edge of the bed. :)

Ann

Oh, Ann! The accidental Roundup ploy! How clever!

Just so everybody knows, there is no doubt that these are neither Stella D'Oro nor rebloomers by the door. I may not have been clear there.
I just may move them and replace them with what I wanted.
When we have family over for picnics, mom will be so pleased how good those "rebloomers" she gave me still look by the door!

I am new to the daylily forum, though, and was wondering if the group leans more towards rebloomers, or not? Am I alone in this, or am I missing a whole other world?

Has your MIL ever seen these in bloom? I'd move them for a while and see if she ever notices anything; if she asks about them I'd just say you decided to move them to another location where they do better. Or you could simply tell her the truth and that her friend was mistaken about them being Stella d'Oros. After all, she was giving a friend's freebies. If it had been a daylily gift she had purchased just for you, that would be another matter.

I'm in zone 5, and IMHO I don't think rebloom is reliable for us in this zone. Daylilies need long hot days/weeks for good rebloom to happen, and we just don't have that climate. Stella is about the only dayliliy to rebloom every year, and some years it's better than others.

Better to plant an early blooming daylily, a mid-season blooming daylily and a late blooming daylily.

I'm in zone 3b-4 and I get rebloom on some eg Sabine Baur and Enchanted April, Happy Returns probaly many more

Gifts are nice but if it doesn't suit the spot I'd transplant it elsewhere and plant the Stellas in the gift plant's place. I gift plenty of daylilies and sometimes I just pop them in a bare spot to keep them healthy. I always tell folks if they want them somewhere else it's no problem at all. Should have some pics of some of the "gifted" plants soon. I'm with you, I prefer the rebloomers (and spiders), you want more color in the location it's probably not going to happen without a change.

It sounds like a question of priorities. Do you want to keep it because it was a gift from your MIL, or discard it for the same reason? Or is the flower more important? If it were me, I would keep it. That being said, if I didn't like the place it was in I would move it, no matter who gave it to me.

All insightful advice. Thank you! I would never discard the plant. I was just doing some soul searching about having what I want versus the chance of needlessly offending. I don't think MIL would be offended for my replacing it or moving it, but I want to be careful because it is the family that views her not only as the matriarch, but guru of gardening (though it seems that only I know she cares solely about vegetables, and has no flower gardening experience, which I think she would freely admit). I do have a great relationship with my MIL. I guess I am trying to be careful because people are more important than plants to me. The truth is that MIL has seen it bloom, and even if I replaced it tomorrow, she probably would not recognize the bloom (or the plant) as being a stella d'oro, or even a different plant. So, I guess it is not about the lily at all. I think the suggestion that I will take is to bring it up to MIL that I treasure the lilies, but have found a much better spot (which is true) to put them. She doesn't need to know that they are not what she thought, and definitely not a rebloomer. That way MIL can remain the garden guru of the family and no feelings will be hurt. Thanks for the ideas!