I prefer to take in the moment when in the garden, and to record the number of flowers I have, would use up time that I'd rather spend gardening. Being not into daylilies, I had to look up references to understand what plants you were talking about. I absolutely abhor daylilies, but my friend John Kulpa the master has been doing some serious breeding and his new selections are out of this world.

I don't count blooms David, but I do keep a record on if a daylily is blooming or not on a certain date in June and also how it looks (dormant etc.) towards the end of January. I'm sure breeders will keep better records then I do for obvious reasons.......Jay in Chicago. I'm sorry you don't like daylilies at all. Everyone has their own taste when it comes to plants. Some people devote their entire garden solely to vegetables. Something that doesn't do it for me, but each to their own.................Maryl

I just keep date of first bloom and the best date, I do keep a record of which bed I have them planted in and which season (early, mi, or late) as well as the color of each daylily, and I keep a record of each bed separately as I have 350 of them.

kay

I only keep track of the number of buds on the ones that have a lot of buds. I used to record the date each started blooming and the date they stopped, but I don't do that anymore. I keep track of buds and branching on seedlings.

Debra

I keep the date of first and last bloom, my impression for the season of how they did generally [not quite so scientific] and count the buds of the top 5-10 bloomers as well as my seedlings. I pay little to no attention to the leaves & plant: for me it is all about the flowers.

Brad

We must be slackers, but we don't keep any info on our named varieties. We used to do that when we grew hybrid roses, but soon found it too time consuming. At present we have about 1070 +/- named varieties including the 17 we have registered. We do keep a master list of the named varieties and where they are planted and have maps of most of the beds.

At any given time, we might have 3000-5000 seedlings on the property. We take stats on those only after their third bloom and if we are going to grow them on. Occasionally a superb seedling will be moved after its second bloom. All the other seedlings are mowed off and plowed under. I maintain a spreadsheet of seedlings which contains the number of a particular cross and where they are planted. Another spreadsheet contains the same type info on the selected seedlings--about 400-500 of those. (We keep too many.)

One thing that I really value is that with digital photography, I have a record of when a picture was taken. I use that to determine bloom season for our intros.

Nancy

I have 100+ daylilies and the only thing i write down is the date the first one blooms. I am also somewhat of a fanatic deadheader, which I do daily. i like to count how many i deadhead each day, but don't keep a record.

Sheesh! I’m happy if I can just keep the right label with the right plant!

I'm just happy if things are thriving and producing a good decent bloom display.

dont count but been a slow year so far in williamsburg va where in Va are you?

Fairfax County, a few miles south of DC