Favorite first time bloomers this season
I was going through my photos yesterday and decided to pick out my favorite first time bloomers for the season. With much difficuIty I picked out three. Here are mine, let’s see your three favorite newbies and why you chose them.
Sailor Sky is on my list because it’s a late, it’s big as opposed to fancy and all the blooms were flawless.
Sea Dragon caught my eye immediately when I went in the garden. It’s a late mid season, gorgeous color and flawless blooms.
Upgrade was a single fan added spring of 2017. It reached its stats here, increased to four fans and two scapes, blooms held up well in the sun. Great color on every bloom.
Sherry
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5 years ago
signet_gw(6b)
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoLOVE Sea Dragon!!!!! .......ooooh my ! First time bloomers for me this year had to be:
# 1 Smoke Scream which is still blooming
#2 Rainbow Maker which is still blooming
#3 Wispy Rays
Two are various shades of purple and of course Wispy Rays is an in your face red. I am probably cheating here but the 2 Runner ups would have to be Cowboy Scarf and Alan Lane Aginsherrygirl zone5 N il thanked signet_gw(6b)sherrygirl zone5 N il
5 years ago
organic_kitten
5 years agoI had a hard time choosing, but went with;
Bob Marley...I just love the color: and it re-bloom and was a great bloomer.
Kate's photos sold me on Entwined in the vine, and it is a huge gorgeous bloom...can't wait to see what it does next year.
My third choice was hard, because I had to leave out Jewel of Jewels and Life Unlimited, but you said top three, and Sweet Isabella was a beauty and it bloomed and bloomed and re-bloomed, and even gave me a poly bloom (I love polys)kay
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5 years ago
hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
5 years agoThank you, Sherry, for starting this thread. I have already been suffering from daylily deprivation and fall is not even here yet. Everybody has posted such lovely blooms, but my favorites would be Sweet Isabella, Entwined in the Vine (I have to get that one) and Sea Dragon.
Here are my three.Mary Ethel Anderson is a favorite here. I like the fact that the blooms are true miniatures and I love the color. It is throwing up a rebloom scape too. I can't wait to use this one next year in my mini program.
Sihir came from Canada this year. I love the edge, the fact that it is a bitone with an eye (technically, it's a band). I have already used its pollen this year and next year will try to put pods on it. It bloomed well this year considering it was newly planted.
Marilyn Monroe is my third choice. Again, I like the color and see potential in using it in our red-eyed program. I like the fact it has an edge. I just hope it is hardy enough. We will mulch it this fall to be on the safe side.
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5 years ago
shive
5 years agoMy favorite first time bloomers had all been here for a couple of seasons, but they were worth the wait.
- White Tooth - Flawless blooms and great pod setter in hot temps! Plus I really love the colors with the white tooth edge.
2. Black Panther - Great branching, bud count and rebloom! This one would have been first, if not for the fact it fades badly on hot days and will NOT set pods for me.
3. Boundless Beauty - Nice bud count, huge blooms, and terrific rebloom!
Runners up would be Kiss of Paradise and Born to Reign.
Debra
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years ago
daylilybedmaker
5 years agoMy 3 favorite first time bloomers were LINDA GLUCK. I love the edge no eye look. It frosts out to white with a pink edge.
YADA YADA YELLA: Huge golden yellow bloom that stands out in the late garden.
LEGENDS OF THE FALL: I love the edge and the softness of the bloom.
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5 years ago
samhain10 - 5a
5 years agoWell, this is fun! Since virtually ALL of mine are first time bloomers, I'll have to think a minute about it. This is difficult because a number that have bloomed were put in this spring or summer, and may not have been at their best, and because one of the ones that might have bloomed - Destined to See, but had it's scape knocked off by the ferals (heavy censored words here), would undoubtedly have been in the running. But - that said, here are 3.
Creative Design:
Chosen, of course, for the pattern, which I hope to transfer in years to come to as many diploids as I can!
Pattern Maker - chosen for the same reason as Creative Design:
And, I have to chose Indian Giver, even though there are so many of my new tets that later may take precedence, there is something about Indian Giver that just makes my heart sing:
I'll add that I think the C. Bush tet seedlings will be some of those to take me away from the dips, but not before I've tried to marry patterns to many of these babies.
Oh, and I love, love, love lilykate's Red NOID, Ashwood Still Night and Ron Valente and it's leopard-y spots around the edging! And Wonder of it All - sigh, so beautiful.
And I didn't get to see Solaris Symmetry or Rainbow Dragon yet, darn it!
Alex
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5 years ago
Brad KY 6b
5 years agoMy newest are the VTs that I got from Celeste. They are all nice but these are my favorites:
VT Sept Star
VT Sept Rose Rosy
VT Fondly Kin
Thanks for starting this Sherry. It's nice to see so many favorites. Of all of the above, I think White Tooth is my favorite. I'm not really into toothed daylilies, but I like the color and design of this one.sherrygirl zone5 N il thanked Brad KY 6bsherrygirl zone5 N il
5 years agoavedon_gw
5 years agoSo many beautiful first flowers--lucky, lucky!! As usual, would love to be able to grow most of them. However, I had a struggle to come up with my three--I consulted the list of those that came in Fall 2018 and were First Blooms in 2018 and came up with only two--none of the spring 2018 blooms made the list. So here are the two that deserve comments:
Claudine's Charm--long bloomer, I believe last blooms were in August although I forgot to get pictures at that time. First pictures were taken May 26, so very close to two months or more.
Kirsten's Corsage--this was a surprise--a trade with Bonnie Nichols netted us this lovely UF that really came on and most of the time it was blooming in the shade.
celeste/NH
5 years agoI had SO many new ones I acquired for 2018 and was all excited to show all of you, until I fell and destroyed my collarbone right before they bloomed. Darn it! But they were so pretty and I was still really excited about them so I made sure I got lots of pictures of them. Boy, did that hurt at the time....ouch!
Sherry, you really make it hard to narrow it down to 3, but I will play...…T-BONE WALKER (got this one from Nancy in KY.....it's wonderful)
SIMPLICITY IN MOTION (came from Laura, as did almost all my new ones and it's a winner here)
Here, I cheat and say it was a 3-way tie for #3 because these all came from Laura and there's no way to choose between them:
JELLY ROLL MORTON (got planted late spring of this year and it has 'wowed' me already)
GETTING AIRBORNE (this one is super TALL and DARK)
JEWEL OF THE OASIS (the color is like nothing else.....appropriately named)
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5 years agoBrad KY 6b
5 years agoNancy
5 years agoSo hard to pick 3, but here goes
#1 must be Bengali, I got 2 fans last fall, each fan bloomed, every bloom absolutely perfect, at least to my eyes. I could go out at 6 a.m. and the bloom be open and looking so nice. In person, the bloom is darker than my camera shows
Claudine's Charm would be #2. I could have wished for more blooms, but the ones it had were beauties
Jerry Hyatt arrived this spring, so I was pleased that it bloomed. It didn't have a lot of blooms, but I was so impressed
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5 years agoWell, I really wanted to show a photo of Navajo Pony too, it was stunning. Technically, it does not count. I think I got it last fall, and it bloomed last fall, but it really may be my new favorite.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agodaylilybedmaker
5 years agoThe petal color really depends on the weather. It is a light pink to off-white in my garden. First thing in the a.m. I could see where it could be called flesh-pink.
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Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)