That is a pretty one, Maryl.

kay

Thank you Kay. You know I have a penchant towards the deeper oranges, and this was a nice Daryl Apps daylily. Apps daylilies usually have solid hybridizing behind them and can do well here...........Mantis: I'll have to think about the "look" part as I haven't noticed that difference in the past. A nice face usually stays a nice face given the same exposure when planted in ground. I'd say growing a weaker daylily in a pot for a year or so would actually be of benefit to it and it's certainly easier then digging it up if you end up not liking it. But there are pluses and minuses to each way of growing...........Maryl

I grew Game Day in a pot for a year and it just sat there, no increase. I put it in the ground a month ago and it has put up another fan. My pots are doubtlessly not large enough to grow plants well, and I always pot them and let them fill the pot with roots before I plant them. I have never lost one I did that way no matter when I planted it.

Maryl, those deeper oranges are favorites of mine too.

kay

I have never grown a daylily in a pot, never considered it until I started reading posts here…I buy them and they go in the ground. To expect them to survive winter they would have to be in my shed or garage. I have grown hosta in pots for about a decade, they get stored in my shed with a 90% survival rate. Shed room is limited. Maryl, It would tear me up to lose daylilies every year because of limited space. The expense also puts me off.

It is a pain to dig up and remove the poor performers, I have waited too long to do that. I finally got around to it this season and we have removed about a dozen established daylilies the past two weeks. My back problems over the past two seasons made me put off a lot of gardening chores. Those darn self seeded phlox may be my undoing, what a pain to remove. We got 2” of rain last night and more to come tonight along with predicted flooding and bad thunderstorms. If all is well after that maybe those garden chores will be a bit easier to accomplish……..I am done rattling on ; )

Maryl, I hope you never lose another daylily.

Sherry

I think it's the taller cultivars that may tend to look different in the ground. As for height, there are so many cultivars that never reach registered height that it would be difficult to determine the effects of pot culture.

That is one bright daylily.

I have never done daylilies in a pot nor would I so I can't really comment on them. As to height, I have noticed that some are tall in one area of the yard but shorter in another sometimes. Some of mine are taller than registered but most are shorter than registered.

Actually, I only have a few pots that are only for annuals since I have no ground space for them. I find it a pain to have to keep them watered so I actually have only had potted flowers a few years. Watering is expensive too.

Glad to hear about rain for you Sherry, I hope it doesn't flood. We are supposed to get some the next 2 or 3 days.

Brad

Sherry: In your zone I would probably not have as many pots as I do because it would be futile to try and leave them outside over winter and my garage space is so limited.......BTW, So sorry to hear about your back. It can certainly be debilitating when you have to dig up plants. One of the advantages to my pot culture is that if I need to remove a plant I just tip it into the garbage can and I'm done. Weeding is no problem at all either. I simply pluck the weeds out of the loose potting mix. And loosing daylilies is a forced control method on how many I have. Like your hostas, I try and keep the special ones in the garage....Brad: I remember Fred Manning, another hybridizer, would grow his seedlings on in pots over winter. He dug holes in his beds and plopped them down in it to protect them over winter.....Mantis: I think in a large pot a daylily could achieve the same stats as in ground. I used to grow roses in pots when I was a rosarian. I had some of them in 26-28 inch pots and they grew well. For daylilies though I can't see devoting that much room in my small garden to big pots considering their limited blooming season. There was a daylily grower from back in the day that did just that though and I think she achieved similar stats to in ground growers...........Kay: We both like our Muy Caliente muy mucho.........Maryl

Beautiful intense color on Bridgeton Intense Flame with a nice backdrop of other flowers.

I've grown daylilies in pots when I moved since the new house needed to have new garden spaces set up.

Julia