It is based on how it performed where the hybridizer lives. I don't take much stock in the season listed. I wait and see what mine do. My Becky Lynn is mid season too, by the way.

I find the majority of daylilies are registered with accurate bloom times. But I've never gotten a late hybridized in Florida or Texas that was truly a late bloomer here. And a lot of the extra earlies aren't extra early here. But most of my 600 daylilies do match their registrations.

Debra

Debra, my experience with late bloomers hybridized in the south is similar to yours.

As hybridizers, we do the best we can to label the blooming season, but there are just so many variables. For example, we have some Lava Flow in the lineout bed that will be in bloom in a couple of days, but the one up near the house is just putting up scapes. In addition to that, Lava Flow is supposedly a midseason bloomer, but it has always been one of our first to bloom.

Nancy

I experience a bit of the same. Last season I moved half of my Moonlit Masquerade to a new place. The plants that did not get moved are close to the foundation of my home and have scapes, should be blooming in a week or so. The ones that got moved, no sign of scapes, so, soil temperature makes a difference here. My Stella’s are just starting to scape, everything is still 2-3 weeks late this season.

Sherry

Thanks, all, for the replies - very informative as usual. I love this forum!

BTW, my blooms are running about two weeks later than last year also.

Sherry: Moving daylilies will often slow the bloom time. There are others that don't bloom at all after being moved. The best don't care.

Celeste - I think some early/mids you mention that bloom late probably need extra time to recover from winter. Some years Fighting Fire blooms late for me, especially if it's been knocked back hard by winter.

Debra

You may be on to something, Debra. It's a harsh life out there for some of those less-rugged daylilies. I don't mulch for winter protection so some of them do take awhile to get going. I actually prefer the later bloom time since they bloom when not much else is and I can appreciate them more. But it is kind of comical to me to see frilly purple Frank's Star of Bethlehem blooming along with my hardy plain-jane Olallie latebloomers....lol.