Thank you so much Nancy !!!

Nan

Hi nsalvitti I am a zone 6a(sometimes 6b) depending on the year . We get very hot dry weather for most of the summer and in particular when the daylilies are in bloom in July and August here in S.W. Ontario . I grow a few of your choices here

Blueberry Breakfast,

Ruby Spider

Awesome Blossom

Two Part Harmony

Siloam Double Classic

Femme de Joie

I believe you will LOVE Ruby Spider and it should do quite well for you. All the rest listed above are older daylilies and do not seem to be finicky like some of the newer daylilies .....they all do quite well here in our hot very dry clay soil. Because they are not particularly expensive daylilies they are worth a try . If they don't do well , then you haven't lost a vast fortune.

Thank you so much !!! I love all the daylilies you have too, how about Awesome Blossom? I saw some mixed reviews/comments...

We have similar climates. The only one I've grown from your list is Orange Velvet. The color bleached out to blah by the PM, hence it is gone. Blueberry Breakfast has been on my long list for awhile now. I've seen wonderful pictures of it covered in blooms. What it will actually look like in our strong sun past noon is something that you can find out for me - lol..............Maryl

Awesome Blossom was never a good bloomer here, but you are in a much different climate. Femme de Joie, while beautiful, has leaning scapes.

Thanks so much friends, appreciate your help and have a good night !

Please do not get Spacecoast Surprise Purple. I have it and it blotches badly and the color is never purple. If Texas does not require a phytosanitary certificate, I would gladly send it to you for postage to try.

Thank you Karen, I will keep that in mind...I haven't finalized my order yet.

Unfortunately, I do not know anything about the phytosanitary certificate.

Texas does not require the certificate I don't believe. Places on the west coast usually do, but so far not around here that I am aware........Maryl

Thanks Mary !! Maybe KarenPA can share me her Sp Surprise Purple now ...

According to the Texas DOA website, it says that any live plants coming into Texas must be accompanied with a phytosanitary certificate. I guess if I send you the plants when they are dormant, it maybe ok. I am not sure. Just don't want to get in trouble with any government agencies.

No problem, I dont want you to get in trouble either, I just don't know anything about it... Thank you so much Karen...

I am sorry, nsalvitti. Do you have any relatives in other non restricted states? I would be happy to send it to them and you can acquire from them. I have to make space for other daylily so this one has to go.

Gee Karen: I may have done an oops in the past as I've sent things to Texas without guilt (or a certificate). I contacted one of my major mail order retailers (Bluestone Perennials in Ohio) and they say that aside from the west coast, which I've already mentioned, Utah and Colorado are the only other two places they have down as requiring a Phyto certificate. Makes it kind of confusing. I agree with nsalvitti. Best not chance you getting into trouble in any event.......Maryl

Thank you Maryl and Karen, wish you can send it to me but I really don't know anything about said certificate, I just started getting interested in Daylily because of our fierce Summer, house on the top of limestone bedrock, dry Summer and sometime quite cold Winter, I always manage to loose quite a few of my perrenial but a couple of daylilies from that I planted years ago are still here, so it make sense that I think I shall start try to plant more daylilies in my flower bed this Spring...

Maryl, I was interested in trading with someone from TX a while back. So I looked up its regulations and this was what I found:

"Nursery or floral shipments of plant material originating outside of the state must be
accompanied by a phytosanitary document applicable to the commodity from the origin state's
department of agriculture stating that the plants are free of insect pests and plant diseases."

Link: http://nationalplantboard.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/summaries/texas.pdf

I am not sure whether they mean live plants only or dormants inclusive. I am just as confused as you, Maryl.

Hi friends,

I completely changed my list, after checking out some of your beautiful photos and comments and their respective stats, here are my list:

Lavender Blue Baby

Indian Giver

Druid's Chant

Moses Fire

Wild Horses

Ruby Spider

Bali Watercolor

Francis of Assisi

Red Volunteer (hopefully as my bonus)

Adamas

Wispy Rays

Lies & Lipstick

Hillbily Heart

Malaysian Monarch

Roman Cohort

Peggy Jeffcoat

If you grow any of this please let me know how they are and how do you like them or not, thank you for your help....

In truth, just about all the states in the USA require phyto certificates for plant shipments into each state. I am surprised that this is not common knowledge . The reason I know is, back when ,I bid and won daylilies from the lily auction and had them sent to my aunt in Pennsylvania and then contacted the ag department or the local extention office to get a phyto to bring them to Canada when she returned.

Turns out they all should have had a phyto from all the different states that the sellers were from .

Nearly lost the lot of them however the fact that my aunt had not planted them in the ground was the saving grace . She planted them in boxes of dirt to "hold " them till the testing could be done and she was ready to leave to come back to Canada .

The agents from the state allowed us to have a phyto certificate based on tests they did on the plants . It was touch and go for a while and I almost lost them because the sellers were not aware or didnt care to get a phyto to ship within the USA . All this because I was being honest and wanted to bring the plants back to Canada with the appropriate paperwork !

Also read that back yard sellers on Ebay are being watched and some charged for sending daylilies to various states without the proper paperwork .

Thank you..

Indian Giver is definitely a better purple than Spacecoast Surprise Purple. I love this daylily although it has been in my garden for only a year. It does have the true purple color most of the time and it does not blotch for me. The others on your list that I have are Wild Horses, Francis of Assisi and Red Volunteer. I highly recommend all of them. THey are beautiful as well as vigorous. Wild Horses is my favorite eye daylily! Francis of Assissi looks best when the it is established. The first year blooms will look rather blotchy and a bit deformed. But in the second year, you will be "WOWed"! I don't know the others but perhaps other members grow those and let you know. Good Luck!

Thank you so much Karen, can't wait to have them in my flower beds and see their blooms...