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8 years ago

I the beginning (circa 2011) I was buying plants one at a time from local garden centers. Soon I was hooked and started mail-ordering them in sets of three plants, and supplementing (by mail-order) what I already had into bunches of three. Faced with the inevitable space problem, last fall and this spring I "cut back" to buying one plant at a time.

So it is that, except for recent purchases, all the varieties I have (only 37 at the end of 2017) are in sets of three plants, with the occasional pair of two (redundant, I know!) One such set is the oft mentioned Clementella. Prior to Clementella, my earliest bloom date was June 5th - last year Clementella bloomed on May 6th, a full month earlier. This year it bloomed on May 22nd. Last year the largest number of blooms was eight, but today that clump has 18 blooms. (See the photo.)

It is the only daylily blooming right now, and will be for some time, so I am in the hunt for some companions for it. I mail-ordered three extra-early bloomers, and yesterday drove to a daylily farm here in Virginia (same zone as me) that has some already in bloom, and bought two from them. So the passion continues unabated, even while I (like many of my brethren) am trying to "cut back".

Cutting back just means moving stuff out to make room for more new stuff. Speaking of that, in the past month I have given 19 plants to my neighbors who, to my surprise and delight, have a surprisingly high interest in daylilies - a fertile field for daylily disposal.

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shive

8 years ago

I always love giving plants to neighbors and family because then I can still see them bloom!

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organic_kitten
8 years ago
All right, Dave! Cultivate those neighbors! It is an addiction, pure and simple. In case you haven't noticed it yet, you can catch a more expensive form of that addiction right here on the forum. Someone posts a gorgeous bloom, I see it a few times, fall in love, decide where it could go in my garden, and buy it. Of course I am lying. I rarely bother with the step of where to plant it....that is what pots are designed to do. And a pot ghetto is formed.
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signet_gw(6b)
8 years ago
Dave is it possible for you to get a close up photo of Clementella . I have an early bloomer that is the exact same color . It is a noid here but sure looks like your Clementella . A close up photo would sure be a big help in iding mine.
DaveinVA (7a)
Original Author
8 years ago
I'll see what I can do.
DaveinVA (7a)
Original Author
8 years ago
Here they are:
DaveinVA (7a)
Original Author
8 years ago
In my garden, zone 7a in Northern Virginia where it is usually warm and humid, they bloom EARLY and PROFUSELY! Both this year (May 22nd) and last (May 6th), they were the first to bloom by a couple weeks.
signet_gw(6b)
8 years ago
Thanks so much Dave !!!!! I really appreciate you doing this .

I will be using these pictures to compare to my blooms. I am hopeful with the bloom time being the same and from your first image the height looks about right that I may be able to id this plant .

Oh by the way , I had a good giggle at your statement " trying to cut back " I gotta tell you .....it isnt possible once you are hooked you are hooked. I started out with 6 ......and now 10 years later am (including those ordered this spring) up to 1286 varieties .....

Organickitten ........love your philosopy ......