Eye No Edge Daylilies 2018
Post your best Eye No Edge daylilies from 2018 here, along with any runners up. The next category will be eyed and edged daylilies.
I have a few of these, but most did not bloom last season.
Willow Dean Smith
Debra
Comments (15)
Brad KY 6b
5 years agoI only have a few.
Chance Encounter. I may have used it in another category. Great bloomer.
someone's seedling that I got in a trade long time ago. Great bloomer.
VT Autumn Fire.
Runner up:Red Grace. It looks like it has an eye in this picture but it doesn't, just shadow.
I also have a few that have a hint of an edge sometimes & nothing official, but I won't count them: Children's Festival, Elisabeth Salter, Grape Velvet, Amethyst Art. Also Flutterbye has an edge but sometimes an unofficial eye.Related Discussions
Your Best Edge/No-Eye Daylilies?
Comments (19)The jury's still out on Crimson Edgings. It had great bud count and rebloomed last year when I got it from Floyd Cove. But this year it hasn't bloomed well. I'm assuming that's because I set a lot of pods on it in it's first season and W. Good Old Days overshadowed it and stole its sun this spring. It was very hardy in a raised bed, unlike a lot of evergreens I've planted there. And it is a beauty. Crimson Edgings...See Morebest eye/edge daylilies
Comments (13)Do you live in an area where nights and/or early mornings are cool? Where the days in general are cool as well? If you do, I think you should bear in mind the ability of daylilies to open well, plus the effect of cool/cold on color and other features. Related: if I were you, I would focus my shopping on sellers and hybridizers who operate in regions similar to your own. I have bought from time to time from people in Washington, but that was quite a while ago, and I'm not very familiar with what's available to you. But I would expect that these people (as well as people operating in similar growing conditions) will offer what are known as CMOs (cool morning openers) and EMOs (early morning openers) plus daylilies that, in general, do well in cool climates. Obviously, if where you live doesn't fit that description, feel free to ignore all the preceding! I am trying to recall what someone told me about Selman's growing conditions - up there in the mountains, and thus would probably work for you. I've had plants from him in the past, and they have been 100% great. Very, very healthy, some of the cleanest plants I've ever gotten, and overall wonderful. How to trim lists: one tactic you could take is, like I first suggested, to start shopping the lists of daylily hybridizers and nurseries in your or similar growing conditions. In theory, you won't be futilely trying to grow a daylily that you've chosen because of its enticing picture. Case in point: I grow PRECIOUS CANDY and have done so since its intro year. Since then, it's been good only a few times. When it's good, it's very, very good. And when it's bad, it ranges from uninteresting to horrid. Unless things change, I'm getting rid of it as it's so often a complete waste of space here - and in a warm, sheltered part of the garden, too! I have some lovely eyed/edged daylilies from hybridizers in my zone and lower that I just love. Born & bred to do well in conditions like mine, they are very vigorous & hardy, and always beautiful. Anyway, put together a list of hybridizers and growers in northern & cool areas. Hybridizers' websites for images of past intros; American Hemerocallis Society database for more images & info, also on plants in sellers' lists. Decide what you like and don't like: e.g., I don't generally care for yellow or pale yellow or beige-y or maize-y yellow daylilies with rusty reddish eyes and edges, ditto maroon-y red eyes edges. I have a few, and they serve their purpose: one is early, one is a very late, and one (which was a gift plant) is just a fabulous "do-er" that goes from early to about mid-late and always looks great, regardless of conditions. But going forward, I like and would look for bright, deep, or gaudy yellows, golds, and orange-y yellows with red eyes/edges that are not muddy (to the extent possible). Ditto on mauves: there's a kind of a pale rose/mauve-y color I don't much care for. (I'm not sure how one should describe it.) So, because I don't go out of my way to buy plants with that base color. All the above is kind of obvious, I know, but also one way to begin narrowing your list. Also, visit gardens and nurseries in your area!!!!! Really, there's no better way to see what you like. I don't have enough fingers or toes to count the daylilies I thought I wanted that I was unimpressed with or thought merely OK when I saw them. Conversely, there have been so many more that I was really impressed with when I saw them -- plants I'd dismissed after giving their images a very quick glance that were so much better in real life. Plants in real life: some colors and textures don't photograph well, so going by photos only and you'll miss out on some goodies. You rarely get a true sense of plant habit, branching, bud count, placement of the flowers on the scape, and so on, from catalog pictures....See MoreH daylilies 2018, third time is the charm?
Comments (47)I will search for an article I wrote several years ago, I think it was for the AHS robin regarding overwintering in pots. The last two winters, I have been lazy and just left the pots out with no protection, two winters ago, we had good snow, and everything was fine. Last winter, we did not have much snow and I was worried, but I was very lucky and did not lose anything. This winter I again left the pots unprotected, but it has been extremely cold, but hopefully all that snow came in time! However, I would not recommend doing that. I don't do that with my more expensive plants. I will look for that article. Brad, Although water does not cost anything here, we are on a well, and I do not water. I have bought several plastic kid swimming pools, and fill the swimming pools with rainwater. The pots sit or are rotated in the swimming pools. I collect extra rainwater in barrels from the shed and garage roofs, from spring on, as we do get some pretty droughty summers here as well....See MoreQ and R daylilies 2018
Comments (36)Ruby Storm --nice, though not as excited as David is. Modest bud count so far. Red Skeletons --Makes a statement. Sometimes a little splotchy. Vigorous Round Midnight --striking bluish purple color Royal Girls --striking color. vigorous Roses for Dallas Romanian Rendezvous--needs warmer climate. Doesn't like afternoon heat. Rock Solid --vigorous Rose Masterpiece --reliably good except for some splotches. Vigorous. Redheaded Hussy --sometimes rebloom Ruby Grandeur --well budded...See More
mantis__oh
5 years agolast modified: 5 years ago
organic_kitten
5 years agoWild One
Rose F Kennedy
Crimson Edges
Mom's Cinnamon Rolls
Emerald Edge:
I have a couple more, and it is so sad that Indigo edge does not qualify, becayuse even though it is s thinh line, it qualifies as an eye.
kay
organic_kitten
5 years agoshive
5 years agolast modified: 5 years ago
celeste/NH
5 years agoThere are some very beautiful ones posted. I like this category but there doesn't seem to be a lot of daylilies that fit this criteria. I wish there were more!
My top 3 are:WILD ONE
I agree with Kay on this one. Even though orange isn't a favorite color of mine I will always grow Wild One.
SWEDISH GIRLI agree with Mantis......this is a great older cultivar. It is tall, reliable, and a great performer for the north.
FROSTED VINTAGE RUFFLESAnother one that does well here and is such a soft, feminine flower.
MY RUNNER-UPS ARE...….FORSYTH FLAMING SNOW
LADY LIZ
KITTY BANNERMANI have a love/hate relationship with Ms. Bannerman. For a daylily bred in the north she is very fickle about cool temps. She is the most elaborate edged daylily I dare to grow because frilly edges are apt to tangle up here. When it's warm she is drop-dead gorgeous as you can see.
sherrygirl zone5 N il
5 years ago
Honestly, the wording had me confused, here goes.Happy Apache has been slow to get established but I love the bloom.
Coast to Coast has done well here, I think it’s On the rare list now.
Sherry
KarenPA_6b
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoI did not know that this type of daylilies are what you call as Edge with No Eye daylilies. I am sorry to have posted some of my daylilies that fit in this category in other color threads. I am glad that I know what they are called so I can look for them now.
Wow, there are so many standouts above. Of course, Willow Dean Smith is just lovely. Geneva Firetruck is stunning! I love that edge! But Kay's collection is the best! Love Mom's Cinnamon Rolls and Emerald Edge. I really like FROSTED VINTAGE RUFFLES and Kitty Bannerman too.
My most favorite is Girls Gone Wild.
Tande
Implant
lilykate7a
5 years agoI had more of these than I thought. I think Debra's photos of Willow Dean Smith first encouraged me to add some of these. I won't post repeats as photos of mine are not nearly as impressive as those above. My Willow Dean is not as dark edged as Debra's. I also grow Swedish Girl, Julianna Lynn and Forsyth Flaming Snow but their performance was somewhat subpar this year. I like Wild One and am always tempted to get that one-it is always impressive. And Sherry's Happy Apache is always striking. Lady Liz has such a soft color. So pretty! Here are the two I selected.
Snow Prince was new this year. It multiplied well and blooms were pretty although scarce. I will be interested to see if the bud count increases next year. I was pleased with it as a first year plant.
Mountain Orchid was also new. I really liked the blooms and coloration on this one.
Again, these were probably not the "best" blooming ones in this category but they were new and they bloomed well this first year and I like them! Mine all seem to be this pink/lavender edge. I think I may need different colors in this category!
Kate
shive
5 years agosherrygirl zone5 N il
5 years ago
samhain10 - 5a
5 years agoSome of these are absolutely stunning!!! I won't even try to pick favorites. I was confused, too about your heading, and had a couple of eyed-no edged daylilies lined up - oops! Anyway, here's a single edged-no eyed selection - Luxury Lace:
That's it till next year,Alex
daylilybedmaker
5 years agoHere are a couple of edge no eyes that I grow that have not been pictured:
JANET GREBUS MURPHY: It is out of BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS
VIGINIA PECK: One of my very first club auction wins
I also grow WILLOW DEAN SMITH, FORSYTH FLAMING SNOW, FROSTED VINTAGE RUFFLES, SWEDISH GIRL, LINDA GLUCK, and WILD ONE.
David (Zone 5)
hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
5 years agoWe don't grow many edge no eye daylilies and most of the ones we do grow do not perform well here.
Quiet Wyatt is a good performer.
Different Direction has done reasonably well for a southern bred daylily.
We also grow Crimson Edgings and Across the Border, but they have never done well.
Nancy
mantis__oh