Hooray! So glad your season has started, NancyI actually like your Lambertson best today.

kay

It’s great to see your first blooms. Lambertson daylilies are usually failures here, i ditched another one last season, have one left. I’d keep Little Rosy Clouds too, a lovely early season bonus.

Sherry

I like Little Rosy Cloud. It's a small one I'm not familiar with. I love the look of the Lambertsons, but most do not do well for us here. I like the pattern on Complex Complexities, but I don't love the color either. I prefer a pattern on a yellow daylily.

Nancy

Hooray! Your season has started. Little Rosy Cloud is cute, and I like the pattern on Complex Complexities.

Debra

Glad your season has begun! It will really pick up now!! I wonder where Lambertsons actually perform well! I think I have one that looks pretty good-the others tend to dwindle away.

I like that Little Rosy Cloud. I tend to like single color daylilies anyway, and it's nice for one of the first spring blooms to not always be yellow.................Maryl

Nice start to your season Nancy. That is a good increase on your Lambertson.

Julia

Kate, I looked, and I do have 4 Lambertsons that do well. Ada Mae Musick, Titanic Tower and Dr Jules Michael Vinckman have bloomed and increased significantly in the time I have had them. Subtle Knife has increased only modestly and is against a rock wall, but at least had not died. Memory of Morning started off badly, almost dying its 1st year, then taking 2 years to bloom last year, it is now 3 fans and has 4 scapes. I have hope for it. Sorry to have gone on about it, but I don't know how many Lambertsons that died before it finally dawned on me, there was a pattern, LOL. I do tend to like the look of many of his.

Thought I would add today's photo of Blue Throated Hummingbird, did not want to start a new thread just for 1. New this year, so Ffe, not too good a background with all the dying daff foliage

that is a pretty bloom, Nancy!

I like Blue-Throated Hummingbird. I thought the discussion you and Kate were having about Lambertsons was interesting. The older ones do fine here - Ada May Musick, Blue-Eyed Butterfly, Turn Turn Turn, Metallic Blue Eyes and Razor Eyes. Feathered Fingers, Blue Over You and Stinger multiply very slowly for me. I've lost dozens of Lambertsons over the years, and I used to think it was bad winters. Now I think the culprit was grubs, both for those in the ground and in pots. By the way, Dr. Jules Michael Vinkman was hybridized by Faulkner.

Debra

Thanks Debra, I thought when I saw my notes with Dr Jules, Lambertson did not seem right, but I did not look it up. I might have grubs too, although I don't see many, but if so, they really like Lambertsons, at least newer ones.

The color on Blue throated Hummingbird is much more vivid than many pictures I see, hope it continues to stay

I forgot about two more Lambertsons I still have: Violet Sabrewing and Purple Peace. Violet Sabrewing, which I'm sure has been attacked by grubs for several years, multiplies slowly and has never been its registered height. Purple Peace hangs on, but hasn't multiplied since I got it four years ago. Grubs here seem to do the most damage to evergreeens and semi-evergreens that are more tender. Over the years, I've lost entire clumps of Lambertson intros to grubs: Asian Fairy Bluebird, Cerulean Warbler, Jenny Butterfield, Magnificent Hummingbird and Dust Be Diamonds. All of those clumps were fairly large, and I had grown them in ground for 4 to 6 years before the grubs devoured them.

Since you are farther north than me and you get a little colder in the winter, it could be winter temps that get yours. Lambertsons are notoriously tender. The only Lambertson I've ever grown in a pot that has made it through multiple winters is Purple Peace. One thing I've learned about Japanese beetles and Junebugs is that they like to lay their eggs in the same soil from which they were born. So even if you only have a few areas where you have a few grubs, in a few years those areas will be overrun with many grubs.

Debra