BENNETT DAYLILIES
Here is my ranking of the Bennett daylilies that I grow. Now I am somewhat surprised as to this ranking, but I figured that some of the later bloomers are more fresh in my memory and that they are still blooming. More about that as I list them. I also recently found the last list that Bud Bennett mailed out and I had 12 of the 14 plants listed for sale.
1. SHOWTIME MAGIC: Great polychrome that is a consistent rebloomer for me. It is the only consistent rebloomer for me regardless of the amount of rain.
2. CARELESS DREAM: In his last catalog, Mr. Bennett said that this was the best plant he had blooming in his garden. He also noted that it was slow to increase. I think that this is the fourth year in the ground for me and it produced huge blooms with great ruffling. So it really got my attention this year. It is pod and pollen fertile.
3. SITTING COOL: Will always rank high for me. I love the pastel colors and the midrib.
4. JAZZ ME BLUES jumped up on my list due to the potential pattern hybridizing in its jeans. Did not always see the pattern, but one morning, the only two blooms that were open showed the pattern.
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daylilybedmaker
2 years ago5. WILD CHERRY WINE: Love the ruffling on this one. This was taken early in the morning.
6. JUBILEE BALL: Taller than most of Mr. Bennett's intros. All of the blooms face out
- FAST PLEASURE: Great plant and color saturation
8. KIWI MAGIC: This is a great smaller bloomed plant.
9. TACTICAL CAT: Another smaller bloomed plant. I love the contrast between the eye and petals.
10. FASHIONAIRE: This is a classic that I still love. One of the first ones I purchased from Mr. Bennett.
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Daviddaylilybedmaker
2 years ago11. PASSING FANCY: This one was a great performer. Well branched scapes. May move up in future rankings
12. BEAUTY IN MOTION: This one may suffer from blooming early. It is great when there is little to no competition.
13. POLAR FIZZ: Great cream with a white midrib.
14. BO KNOWS: This is a bloom machine. It is sinfully pod fertile as the bugs loaded it with pods.
15. DOING ALL RIGHT: An edged no eye. I love this one. This is also slow to increase. I moved it last year and I did not even recognize it this year. Where I had it before, the main petal color was more yellow. I like were it is now.
I grow over 40 Bennett intros and I love them all, some just more than others. I still managed to not get a photo of all of them.
Thanks for looking.
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Comments (19)"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. ;)...See MoreBud Bennett daylilies and some others
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