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My First Daylilies to Bloom for 2022

last year

These are the first daylilies blooming here. Three are new ones that I received in April and one is a second year seedling. My established daylilies won't start blooming for a week or two.

Extravagant Love - This one lost most of its buds in the wild temperature swings.

Lavender Dandelion has also lost buds because of cats breaking them off.

Aunt Patsy won't live here long term. It's one of those flowers that begins to open days before it actually blooms. In my dewy climate that means it will always have splotchy sepals. I'll keep it a couple of years to hybridize with and then sell it.

This second-year seedling scaped much earlier than anything else of my established plants. It's a cross between a Gypsy Cats seedling and Rip Saw.

Debra

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lilykate7a
last year
It’s always something about our lilies isn’t it?!! Weather, cats, splotchy blooms!!! Having said that, those blooms are lovely new ones.
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
last year
The blotches and splotches are a real downer on otherwise beautiful darker colors. Aunt Patsy looks like a nice orange/red color which I favor.......Lavender Dandelion is a pretty one too.........I bumped into my Burning Inheritance shortly after taking the first bloom picture, and broke off a scape. I don't even have a cat to blame it on- just a clumsy human.........Maryl
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hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
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Beautiful! The weather has done a number on ours. It's too bad Aunt Patsy can be splotchy. It's a lovely red. I really like Extravagant Love and Lavender Dandelion. It looks like your seedling season is off to a good start. It's always exciting to see the seedlings start blooming. We haven't found a single scape on a seedling except for a pair of four year old diploids.

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sherrygirl zone5 N il
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Pretty blooms Debra! I’m assuming your seedling will be an early bloomer? If so, a nice season extender! Or, is the wonky weather having an impact on bloom time for it?

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Brad KY 6b
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Good to see things have started for you! These are a very pretty start.

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Nancy 6b
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Nice beginning, I especially like Extravagant Love. Such a pity about Aunt Patsy, a pretty color. My cats have matured, and don't play ricochet cats, bouncing off one iris stalk into another. They really played hard among the iris. My son's dog is going to be a problem with daylilies. She likes to jump over them. She is like a bull in the China shop.
shive
Original Author
last year
Thanks for all the comments!

Nancy - Extravagant Love is a pretty one. Most of Tim Bell's daylilies are good rebloomers, so I'm hoping that one will rebloom so I'll get to see more of it this season.

Sherry - I think the scape on the seedling is one that formed in the fall but didn't have time to emerge before freezing temps hit. That scape has moved to the outside of the fan, and it has another scape today emerging from the middle. I have another seedling that bloomed midseason last year with a very early scape that will likely be my second seedling to bloom. I often have a few registered daylilies that have the extra early leftover scape to bloom, but not this year.

Hoosier Nan - I do love seeing the seedlings start to bloom. I was disappointed when this first one wasn't showing teeth on the initial bloom. But it has a few tiny ones on the second flower. I'm hoping the siblings will have better edges.

Maryl - My remaining outside cats are old, but they still can jump when they hear loud sounds, and they sometimes rub on the daylily buds. I did break off one of buds myself when I moved the pot next to Lavender Dandelion.

Kate - You are right about so many different factors influencing the fate of our daylilies.

Brad - I've enjoyed seeing the early blooms on these, but there will be quite a lag before the flower show continues.

Debra
organic_kitten
last year
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I am glad I am not the only one that has lost scapes to cats. Nice start, Debra. Pita that Aunt Patsy won't behave well in opening blooms. Lavender Dandelion is a pretty one. I like the seedling and have noted that Cocoa's Curiosity has added fans and has several scapes up too. There is nothing like blooming beginning, is there? We are supposed to finally get rain this weekend, thank goodness. Hope you get some too. And all are quite pretty; nice post.

kay
shive
Original Author
last year
Kay - I sure hope we both get rain this weekend. It's so terribly dry here.

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