"Your story reminds me of trying to find Carpenter's Tijuana Treasure, which I got a few years ago and planted in the best spot in my garden. It's still a very puny two fans and I'll be shocked if I ever see a bloom." Sometimes you never know. I think it was on this forum, maybe last summer, that I was trashing PRECIOUS CANDY. Last summer's performance, in fact every summer's performance other than its very first, had been so awful - and the colors on the bloom so very, very horrid - that, for the very first time ever, I'd actually decided to compost or at least give away a daylily, and the price I'd paid be d...ned. (I'd bought it in its intro year.) Well, this summer it's been really nice, all things considered. It actually has two-way branching (with a top vee). Still a pretty mingy number of buds, but the clump is nice-sized, so there are a decent number of scapes. Plus the color's been very good, the edge is lovely, and - at last! - the blooms have been opening fully. So I'm keeping it, for now at least. Maybe it will be even better next year? I also have an oldie, the name of which escapes me now, that I bought in, get this, 2006. It bloomed that year and the next, but I never saw it again. I confess to having a couple of horribly overcrowded beds made with tons of mushroom soil and aged compost. So, not only are the daylilies too close together now, but they are large, vigorously growing plants. I assumed that that historic, smaller diploid-y thing simply couldn't survive the competition. So image my surprise when it bloomed this year! We're talking a gap in bloom of FIVE years! Obviously, I'll be moving this plant to a better spot, and I realize that most people probably wouldn't have the patience for performance like that one's, or like PRECIOUS CANDY's here in my zone. But if you do have the room for a slow-grower, sometimes it's worth the wait. BTW I just noticed that you don't have to change the subject line any more when posting sequential comments! I was always forgetting and hence always annoyed when my comments wouldn't load because I hadn't changed the subject line. This is so much fun that I might continue posting comments one after another for another hour or so. ;)

Really lovely pink on Runaway Romance, & just enough of an edge. Oddly, my favorite is Sitting Cool. I usually go for the colorful ones, but something about this one just calls my name.

Interesting information about F. Bennett! I like the photo of Foolish Kisses that you posted on the other thread. Debra

Kay and Kathy, Happy to help! Here's some photos of Joyful Lassie I took at Mr. Bennett's garden a couple years ago: Joyful Lassie Joyful Lassie clump and another photo of my Salty Skipper I took earlier this summer: Hope yours are beautiful for you next year too! (Maybe you can post photos.) Juliet