How about 'YARD MASTER' - very tall lemon yellow w/green throat. Great branching/budding and prolific increase.

BONNIE JOHN SEATON -- more of a golden yellow (looks awesome with YARD MASTER) 26" with 7" flower.

SPARKLING ORANGE --- not at all orange but blooms just a bit later than the upper two. 34" with 6" bloom.

CALADONIA --- more lemony than gold -- 22" with 7" spectacular bloom.

BURIED TREASURE ---- Gorgeous oldie that is tall with a 5/6" flower. Very prolific and beautiful in a clump.

These are just a few that come to mind and they are all in the $5 range. I haven't seen lots of improvement on yellows. They have added ruffles but it seems that those don't have the great budding and branching (at least those I have experience with.)

There are some great yellow spiders also that would add texture and interest and also would be in the $5 range.

Tetrina's Daughter ML 46" 5" SE lemon yellow, fragrant, reblooms

HERMOSA (Kraus) 35", Ev., M.
Bold, enormous wide petalled saffron yellow with rich green throat. Petals slightly crinkled.

PEMAQUID LIGHT (Barth) 36", S.Ev., M.L., 8" (T)
Huge, lemon-gold flower with wide petals and green-gold throat. Good branching and fragrance adds to its appeal. Extended bloomer.

There are a few.Do a search for 36"+yellow+daylilies and see what you get.

Betsy

I looked up (At AHS - daylily database)Yard Master, Bonnie John Seton, Sparkling Orange, Buried Treasure and Pemaquid Light and it said they were all dormant. I am hoping to find and evergreen or semi evergreen variety. I live in a part of Texas that gets a few cold snaps per year, so I am pretty sure they would go totally dormant (my Stellas do). I couldn't find any info on Caledonia?

Tetrinas Daughter looks perfect!

I swear I have been looking, but with hundreds/thousands of cultivars to swim through... whew! I just thought our daylily experts here might help me trim a year off my research!!

I did find another that might work - 'Bette Russell'? Says 36" EM, EV Reblooming!

You might want to check out these (although your height requirement makes it more difficult):

AMERICA'S MOST WANTED (27", early) (my favorite yellow)

MARY TODD (listed as 26", but mine is easily 36"/early)

CONCRETE BLONDE (30"/mid)

PRAIRIE MOONLIGHT (34" mid-season)

SUN KING (30", early-mid)

SUPER DOUBLE DELIGHT (30" double, huge bloom, mid-season)

TREVI FOUNTAIN (36", mid-late)

YAZOO ELSIE HINTON (32", early-mid)

LIFE ON BAJORE (31", early-mid)

maximus7116 - Thank you so much for these leads!! Mary Todd is on the list. Prairie Moonlight is on the list. Yazoo Elsie Hinton on the list. I have yet to look up Sun King, Super Double Delight, Trevi Fountian and Life on Bajore. Just looking up Concrete Blonde led me to three new daylily sites I hadn't been able to find before. I looked through their inventory to see what tall yellows were available.

Does anyone grow??:

Carolcolossal
Hidden Riches
Touched by Midas
Sunny Perfection
Imperial Lemon
Whompus Cat
Double Talk
Velvet Butterfly
Easy Ned

I would love to know how these grow for you!!

I have CAROLICOLOSSAL and HIDDEN RICHES. HR is a beautiful daylily with great color and substance, but is a 24" plant. If you're willing to look for daylilies under 26", let me know because there's a few I can think of you might like.

Carolicolossal is a spider (or at least a spider form) and, if you like that type of daylily, is a good grower (36"/early).

Chris

I would like to add another feature of TETRINA'S DAUGHTER.
It stays open nearly all night!! I have gone out at midnight and they were just as nice as when they first opened.

Kay

Betty Warren Woods, Fun In the Sunshine, and Fred Ham are 3 of the best cultivars in my garden, regardless of color. I don't know offhand how tall they are supposed to be, but in my garden they are very tall and very floriferous.

I suggest you reconsider buying only evergreens as opposed to dormants. In daylily terms, dormants lose their foliage in the fall and then rest until spring. Evergreens keep growing throughout winter, as long as growing conditions permit. When you get your cold snaps, the evergreens foliage will die. It will not remain evergreen when temperatures fall below freezing. The evergreens will begin growing again as soon as temperatures rise above freezing.
So if you're wanting evergreens because you expect their foliage to be green all winter, I'm sorry but that won't happen.
You are in a zone that can grow all foliage traits very well, so I wouldn't limit myself to just evergreens. In your area, they may be more work to maintain than the dormants.
Ed

Thanks again Chris!
I had a chance to look up the rest you suggested, and Sun King is just gorgeous! Too bad it is sold out everywhere I look! Guess it goes on the wish-list. Super Double delight looks great too. Trevi Fountain is a great find - kind of hard to find late bloomers! Life on Bajore I couldn't really find much info on. Funny, when I look up Hidden Riches, it says it is a 34"?? I guess maybe that is if its life is absolutely perfect? :o) I am not much for spider form lilies, but I as of now, I only have three choices in my "Early" category... and she being the only 36"+ choice. What is with all the dormant yellows?

Thanks Kay!! Good to know what has a long bloom! What were you doing out there at midnight? ;o)

Hi Cavamarie! Thanks for the suggestions... I looked at Fun in the Sunshine and loved it, but don't think it is tall enough for my application. :o( Betty Warren Woods is wonderful, but I think it is short too... Dang... I am having difficulty finding some evergreen tall yellows....

Thanks for all the help! Keep it coming! (Especially any Mid-Late or Late Evergreens)!

Sun King came from a seller who is a GW member, so I don't think I can give out her name because of the rules here. E-mail me for the name. She was also my source for another nice yellow, Capella Light (paler yellow, 30", EM).

Life on Bajore is a pale yellow with a more unusual form. It's not a spider like Carolicolossal (which is not among my favorites).

I would take into consideration Ed's advice, since Mr. Ed really knows his stuff. :o)

If you do end up considering dormants, I can give you another whole list of ones I like. If you're interested, there's a link below to my daylily photos which include pics of most of the daylilies I've mentioned.

Chris

Here is a link that might be useful: Photo Albums

fairysoapgirl, I am growing Imperial Lemon. She was purchased last summer from a local greenhouse in a pot along with a bunch of others "rescued" from a greenhouse that went belly-up and had left plants to die. Looked pretty good compared to the others, so took her home.
Planted in ground and wintered over fine. Imperial Lemon has three huge fans with scapes starting now and wide, tall foliage. Hope the flowers deliver! The scoop:

IMPERIAL LEMON - Harris-Benz 1985. 7" flower, 36" tall, SEV, described as a lemon yellow self, heavily ruffled, sunfast, reblooming Tetraploid, early to mid-season.

Maybe others can comment on their bloom time.

How bout Debary Canary? I just remembered I have that in a pot in the back of my garden, and it towers over everything, even the weeds....

I'm near you and here is what does best for me, all of these rebloom and all are very tall. Sherry Lane Carr blooms late, the others are probably mid but you can look them up.

Dot

Florida's Garden Light
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Frequent Flyer

America's Most Wanted

Sherry Lane Carr
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avonlady - Shoot!! I wish a nursery around here would go belly up and leave inventory behind!! What a lucky dog you were!! Thanks for the info!

Ed - Some History: I recently moved to Texas, so I am having to learn all my gardening rules over again. Man, what crazy weather we have here! I was not looking for dormants because I have been reading (on the Texas Gardening form here and elsewhere) that dormants don't do so well in this area. There are quite a few posts about them dying off after a few years, and I don't want that!

It sure would be nice if things stayed green all year, but with an inch of snow on them, I am not surprised when things go dormant. We actually got three cold periods this past winter (cold = 20-25ish), and all the natives said that was very cold and three drops were a lot for this area.

My understanding is that it has something to do with the root system - but I am very new to daylilies. Any more info on some yellow, 36"+ dormants that are proven winners in my area?? Thanks for bringing this up, and geesh... I hope I could use some dormants, because this is where all the yellows are!

Anyone have experience growing dormant daylilies in 7b for more than 3 years? Please shout out and let me know how it is going for you. I would hate to drop some serious $$ (I need ~ 50+ plants) only for the lilies to suffer and die. Then I would be depressed!

SANDRA ELIZABETH for very late

fairysoapgirl,
Cute name! :0)
Being in zone 9, I usually look for evergreens and am cautious about buying dormants. I usually look at the supply sources to decide if they will perform well here or not. If a nursery in zone 9 sells a dormant, then I'm pretty confident it will grow here for me. That is what I would suggest you do. If you see a dormant that appeals to you, look it up on Eureka and see if any nurseries handle it that are located in zones 7 or greater. DaylilySearch.com would be another option.
Good luck,
Ed

I have a lot of yellows and you're right...it does seem that many of them are dormant. Here are some that I grow that are evergreen/semi-evergreen, but do not meet your height requirements. However, they are taller for me than as registered. You'll note some overlap in recommendations...the more, the better.

Evr:

America's Most Wanted
Glory Bright
Fun in the Sunshine
Humdinger
Woodside Commemorative

Sev:

Concrete Blonde
Larry Grace
Life on Bajore
Liquid Sunshine
Macho Macho Man
Mary Todd
Moon Dazzle
Ram*
Top Honors
Trail Boss
Yazoo Elsie Hintson

If you decide to venture into the dor ones, I certainly can recommend great yellows there, too.

Btw, for me, Sherry Lane Carr, is more orange...although a very beautiful flower...could be my soil, of course.

*New to my garden, but highly recommended by others

P.S. If you do decide to try some dormants, today I have the ffo open on a Jamie Gossard one...Yellow Sledgehammer...gorgeous, sturdy and very tall!