Fighting Fire Rebloom

12 months ago

Fighting Fire started reblooming this week. This rebloom scape has the most buds - 20 - that FF has ever shown for me. In Nashville the highest bud count was 17.

Fighting Fire

The only other daylily I have with buds is Steven Scott Derrow, and its scape will be the first one for this cultivar this year. It probably won't bloom until the end of Sept. or early October.

Debra

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sherrygirl zone5 N il
12 months ago
Lovely bloom! Glad you have some rebloom. Nancy says it has been dry, how has rainfall been for you?

Sherry
shive
Original Author
12 months ago
Sherry - August and September have been very dry here. The grass is browning in patches and dying, but the daylily foliage looks pretty good. It looks like there are a lot of chances for rain this weekend and next week.

Debra
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Brad KY 6b
12 months ago
Looks good!! Great color and that is a lot of buds!

Brad
Julia WV (7a)
12 months ago
Pretty color and edge on it. Lots of buds to go and I hope you get to see them all open.

Julia
shive
Original Author
12 months ago
Julia - I hope to see a lot of those buds bloom properly. The average first frost here is Oct. 16th. But in the past few years the first frost has come in late October or early November. Fighting Fire doesn't open well in night temps in the 50s, so I'm not sure how flat some of the future flowers will open.

Debra
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
12 months ago
That is a very pretty bloom, made more so by the lack of competition this late in the season. I'm geared up for fall myself. Last week it was hovering around 100, so the low 90's today were at least headed towards cooler weather to come.........How odd it will be to me Debra if you have daylilies blooming next to a bowl of pansies. That would be kind of neato........Maryl
shive
Original Author
11 months ago
Maryl - So sorry you are still having very hot temps. It's been pretty nice here in late August and September with lots of days with highs in the 70s and lower 80s.

Debra
lilykate7a
11 months ago
Beautiful color for a September bloom. And lots of buds on it as well. As I mentioned in Sherry’s post, no rebloom here due to no rain. I have some daylilies to dig and cannot get a shovel in the ground! Your temps sound wonderful!!
shive
Original Author
11 months ago
Kate - I know what you mean about the dry ground. I'm trying to get daylilies planted that I got in the Spring, but the ground is so dry from lack of rain that it's very slow going. I'm hoping we do get some of the rain that is forecasted for this week.

Debra
mantis__oh
11 months ago
Ground is extremely hard. We got a nice rain, but need much more to break the drought.
shive
Original Author
11 months ago
Mantis - We got more than an inch of rain yesterday, and I'm hoping for more today through Thursday. We're in a moderate drought here now.

Debra