I just got Wedding Band at my favorite daylily farm. It is listed at 26" but mine is at least 36" high.

From your list, I once grew six and have gotten rid of three of those. WEDDING BAND is still here, along w/ JOLYENE NICHOLE and NIGHT EMBERS. JOLYENE has a beautiful bloom but the scapes are really short and that bothers me. There are too many good pinks out there which hold the blooms well above the foliage! BALLERINA ON ICE is a good one, I'd recommend that.

I would go with 1, 2 ,3 and 6....IMHO...:)

Rick

floota - which 3 did you get rid of and why?

JOLYENE NICHOLE is very short, listed at 16 inches I think but mine always blooms shorter than that, way down in the folliage. Not very attractive habit on a daylily. The flowers are large for such short scapes, even when those scapes are normal height. For this reason, I don't like it. My daylilies need to have good plant habit, not justpretty flowers. The flowers are lovely though.

NEAL BERRY is one that left here. Well, I actually donated my entire Stout Medal collection - and I had all of them dating back to 1950 - to our club bed when we created an AHS Display Garden for the club. NEAL BERRY was sometimes iffy here after hard winters. MOLINO PINK LOVELINESS left here too, but it has been so long ago, I can't remember exactly why - I think it might have also had some tenderness issues in this climate. Actually, I still have JOLYENE but it is leaving here this fall. I like NIGHT EMBERS but often the blooms don't open well. As you grow daylilies longer, you become more ruthless! Plants which don't perform well just don't stay here long anymore.

Hey Rita......you have Francis Of Assisi don't you? Do you not care for lower bloomer's in the front of your bed's? It's interesting why some folks like some plants and not other's....What do you define "Good Planr Habit"?

Rick

No Rick, sorry, I don't have Francis Of Assisi.

Truely, I am very opiniated on what I really like in my garden. I abolutely hate flowers that other people love and they have left here. JOLYENE NICHOLE never bloomed above the folliage here except for the first year I bought it potted in bloom. Blooming in the folliage is poor plant habit to me.

No, I don't much like short scapes although I have afew of them.

My Jolyene Nichole has been lovely this summer. Yeah, she has a bad habit with hiding down in the folliage, but this year she is really showing off. Scapes and blooms have been well above. All the rain I've gotten this season? I don't know, I have a lot of daylilies taller than 'normal' this year.

She's been blooming for quit a while now and some days the clump has 15 open at once which is very pretty. I suppose she is not the best pink I have in the garden but she's earning her keep as a front of a border plant in that area. Guess it's each their own. If I had to decide on making run for something else I really wanted and the newer plant had to take just that space as to if she'd get to stay. But as a gardener who is into an overall effect rather than a display daylily bed, I like her just fine. My daylilies are chosen for the type of gardener that I am and must play nice in the area I will put it in as they are mixed in with lots of other plants.

I saw Night Embers as a nice clump at a daylily farm last year, but choose a different dark colored clump instead. Overall it was pretty but there were several blooms having a bit of trouble opening properly or having room to open around surrounding buds. Gorgeous coloring. It's still now my 'thinking about it' list as I have a large number od dark blooms already in the area I'd put it, it's not won me over just yet--but than again somedays I can be much 'weaker' than others ;-0

Thanks for the input. I've decided not to get Jolyene Nichole or Night Embers. I have limited space and my daylilies need to be winners for me.
I plan on widening my back bed next year (or later this summer) but that also means I need to create paths to walk through it so I can deadhead them so that takes away from planting space. :( But, it will make it look nice too.

Definitely get Ballerine On Ice.

Debra

WEDDING BAND - A definite keeper. Mine just went into overdrive on blooms opening and plenty more to still open. Love it.

I just got BALLERINA ON ICE this spring and no scapes so far. Perahps next year.

Good luck with whatever you choose.

Julia

Out of the four that I have or did have I'd definitely recommend Wedding Band. I got rid of Jolyene Nichole for the same reason that's been mentioned--it bloomed down in the foliage. Molino Pink Loveliness is lovely, but has never been a prolific bloomer for me. It's not in the best spot though. It took Neal Berrey a while to shine. I do like it now, but not as much as Wedding Band.
Val