To me they are not particularly large, nor small - kind of in the middle. Most of my blooms tend to be one extreme or the other - large or small - but I have at least two (Joan Senior and Janice Brown) which I would call mid-sized.

I don't know what impact water - or the lack thereof - would have on bloom size.

BTW, I have seen "_gw" appended to several screen names - what does that mean?

I don't have Chicago Apache any more but it looks like the age - no edge - fairly good color, yellow throat. It could be 100 other ones too.

Hi there

thanks fpr your answers,

I think I got the classification wrong, it seems there are

largeflowered,

small

miniature

(sorry didn`t bookmark and can`t find again page relating to size classification )

what I`m not sure about is, how the sizes are divided

so I thought the flowers of my red H looked too small to be classified as "large" (so can`t be Cihcago A. which is large flowered)

apart from that I collect Dahlias and know about the difficulties to identify some NoIDs

agree that it is in a positiv sense an older cultivar, I like its resilience/ vigor and am going to keep them

they don`t fade in the bad heat which is another plus

thanks, Lin

@ DaveinVA: I joined the Garden Web before Houzze took over, and when renewing my registration, my old username "linaria" didn`t work anymore/ was already taken, so I added "gw" and it worked

The American Hemerocallis Society says that any daylily registered under 3 inches across is a miniature. Size of the plant does not matter in these classifications--just the flower. The flower should be measured as it appears, not spread out if the petals recurve. Large flowered is 4.5 inches and above. Small flowered is between those two.

Nancy

Thanks Nancy, that's very helpful, now I know how to measure

so probably mid sized :-),

bye, Lin