Charlie, This is so cool! That's almost a 2 month spread, which suprises me. I wish I could've participated, but I don't have Strawberry Candy. If you do it again next year, I hope you use Siloam Double Classic. Then I can play too! Where are the Canadian's? Don't any of y'all have Strawberry Candy? Look at little Leah out there! Where would you have drawn a Chinese participant?
:-)
Kathy

Charlie, this is totally awesome!! You put so much work into this, and I apprciate your efforts. You really did a fantastic job charting the bloom times of SC. I did not get to participate as SC is new in my garden this year, but I'm sure it will bloom right along with everyone else's on the "Red" line next season.
Thanks for your time and efforts. You are appreciated. :)
Jan

There is one Canadian Kathy, Nermal29 just on the other side of Detroit (it's the tan dot near Michigan.

I couldn't participate either Jan. My strawberry candy was new to me this year also.

Charlie

Thank you so much Cjarlie for all of your time and effort on this chart. It really is neat....Ellie

Charlie, is it too late because mine is going to bloom either tomorrow or the next day?

Edward
Timberlea, NS

I've been saying zone 5b but your map shows 6.

I was amazed at my Strawberry Candy, I just didn't realize how late it bloomed but, oh my, it is making up for it. There is a section about 3' X 3' that is only SC and it's almost solid flowers.

This is mighty interesting. Thanks for your efforts.

Kay

Hi Charlie,

Thank you so much for including me - I feel very priviledged. I know I'm a nuisance for not being in the US! It just goes to show though - even though the British Isles are so far North, the good old Gulf Stream does give us much milder weather. I believe we are equivalent to Zone 7 or 8 in the US.

Strawberry Candy has now finished but plenty more are still blooming in my garden.

Leah in the UK

It is official: July 26th for B3T 1J6.

OK everybody, go to your local dollar store and buy a stick on star and put it on your screen above Maine for Edward's SC bloom.

Leah, of course you were going to be included. I need to stay on your good side. Who else am I going to visit when I get across the big pond again?

Charlie

Charlie,

You would be most welcome to visit - there aren't many Daylily Addicts over here - we are a select bunch!

I attended the British Hosta & Hemerocallis Society's Hampshire meeting on Sunday 16 July held at a friend's house in The New Forest - she has a National Collection of Spiders, Spider Varients and Unusual Forms and is a well known personality on the Daylily scene over here. We ooh'd and aah'd over her fabulous collection (1200+). Needless to say, I came home with a few more DLs. My garden is, as they say, "small but perfectly formed", so I'm not sure where I'm going to put them.

You never know, I might appear in Ohio as my husband's aunt and uncle live in Cleveland.

On the weather front, it is still hot and humid, although we had a huge thunderstorm last night.

Leah in the UK

Thanks, Charlie, for doing this! How interesting for us all to see and compare.

Leah, I attended Chelsea this year and wondered where all the daylilies were! Lol! Many beautiful flowers on display...but very few daylilies. Imagine what folks could do with a daylily display...although I wonder if the blooms lasting only a day make them difficult to display...they could always do clumps and deadhead, right?! Ha.

Leah,

We are 3 hours and 46 minutes away from Cleveland. I know because I attended the Region 2 Daylily meeting there last weekend. There are some very well known hybridizers in that part of the state as well as some very beautiful AHS display gardens. So if you are in the area.....come on down.

Charlie

To "gonegardening" - so you attended Chelsea eh? Well done! I've never made it - seems like hard work to me, very expensive and all those people!! I am an RHS member and prefer to visit the RHS gardens - I was at Rosemoor in Devon (west of England) on Monday with my mother. There were plenty of Daylilies in bloom, but they were the older varieties.

The reason you don't see Daylilies are Chelsea is because no-one here seems to be able to force them to bloom for end of May. I understand there are plenty to be seen at the RHS Flower Shows at Hampton Court and Tatton Park as these are both held in July.

Charlie - I constantly forget how huge the US is and how large your states are. It took me 3 hours to drive from my home in Hampshire to visit my parents in Cornwall this weekend and the British Isles certainly are small.

I have spent my mealtime trying to convince my husband that he really does want to accompany me to the British Hosta and Hemerocallis Society's 25th Anniversary Weekend (July 2007) which is being planned at RHS Wisley and an invitation arrived on my doorstep today. Everyone who is anything in Daylilies in the UK will be there and I understand the organisers have secured Patrick and Grace Stamile as the main speakers. I would dearly love to meet them. Keep your fingers crossed for me .....

Leah in the UK

This is a very interesting post with information that should not get lost. Thank you for doing all this work!

Thanks newyorkrita! I missed this but find it very helpful. Not to be negative, but I would like to see something like this for rust spread during the year. This was a lot of fun.

Wow, that is pretty accurate, here im thinking that my strawberry candy will bloom sometime within the next two weeks. Ive got scapes, but the buds are still on the small side. Thats pretty cool! -Jessica

I have one flower open today, my first, on Strawberry Candy.

Here I thought everything was a bit behind this year, but Strawberry Candy opened it's first bloom on 6/19. Exactly correct for my eastern PA location.

Excellent chart!

Alexa

Did I bust the chart? Strawberry Candy started today.

Edward
Timberlea NS

I'm near Bear Lake in Idaho; and Strawberry Candy bloomed beginning July 24, 2004; July 25, 2005; July 18-Aug 29, 2006; and July 22-now, 2007. It's still blooming this year.

Sharon