some daylily mysteries solved

In 2009 I purchased my first daylilies and most of them didn’t bloom that year. This year, I finally got to see what I had purchased. Since a few were from bags of dead roots from the big box store, I wasn’t sure what I was going to get.

Best of Friends wasn’t from one of those bags, I got this from an online vendor, and they are perfect.

Metaphor, from the same vendor, also perfect.

Breathless Beauty was one from the bag of dead roots from the big box store. Surprisingly, it was what the bag said it would be. It’s also my tallest daylily currently, one of them has bloom stalks that keep bending over to the ground because the blooms are too heavy for it to stay upright, annoying. This one is not my favorite color, but David seems to like it.

Rose Passion, from the bag of roots. It’s cute enough but not evergreen. Sometimes the colors come out broken or fade really badly.

The last bag of roots I bought was supposed to be Moonlit Masquerade, but it wasn’t. Somehow, instead of one random variety, I got two random ones and I have no idea what they are. The bright yellow/orange one I saw bloom last year. I didn’t like it last year, and the yellow and orange seemed out of place since I had nothing in those colors. This year, this orange one is really growing on me, the colors are so bright that they glow, and seeing several blooms per day brings a smile to my face. The new mystery daylily that popped up this year is more of a pinkish purple color. At first I thought it was the Metaphor, but it’s smaller in height and bloom size, and the color looks more solid. I think it’s pretty, whatever it is.

My First Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day

This entry was posted on Monday, June 21st, 2010 at 6:25 am and is filed under garden, MrDavidPoe, photos.

4 Responses to “some daylily mysteries solved”

Kasie
4:15 pm on June 28th, 2010
So pretty! I love the pictures. I want to plant flowers!
Tina Poe Illustration
5:51 am on July 2nd, 2010
Kasie, some flowers are very easy, give it a try!
Jean
1:31 pm on July 5th, 2010
I guess we both got fooled by the Moonlit Masquerade! That’s one of the ones I got in a bag and it didn’t bloom the first year and then when it did this year, it was a puny little orange bloom. Nothing like the description. Like I said on my blog, I learned my lesson. I like that Best of Friends you have.
Tina Poe Illustration
7:57 pm on July 7th, 2010
Jean, I was really looking forward to Moonlit Masquerade :( I learned my lesson too, the ones I bought from the daylily vendor are such higher quality, you can see the difference.

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