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I read on the SRQ Website that this one smells like butterscotch--how intriguing!

This plant has a lovely fragrance that is hard to describe. A little along the lines of honey, but also slightly muskier. And what a gorgeous bloom!

I just bought two Firefighter roses from a nursery today (Sept 5) because they were blooming SO well at the nursery and the scent was so STRONG and intoxicating. I wanted a red rose and they had about 10-15 varieties of red rose, but none of the others were as perfect. Firefighter has scent, form, and good-for-cut-flower-arrangements all going for it!

It also seemed less susceptible to black spot than some of the other varieties. The nursery top-waters with automatic sprinklers on tall poles, so it is fairly evident which roses succumbed more than others and, while Firefighter had some spots, it wasn't many and the leaves were still very dark (making the spots less noticeable) unlike other roses whose leaves yellowed.

On RockHavenDaylilies.com, it says that this cultivar will also set pods on a tet.

Are these two pictures of the same flower? One has an eye and the other doesn't. ::confused::

Lyonnesse has nice, strong scapes, and this is one of her best attributes. The blooms aren't very big, but they are of a decent size and have nice color (near-white with something of a light yellow to peachy undertone) and good substance. Bud/branch count could be improved upon.

Almost all of my daylilies, including Lyonnesse, were purchased/transplanted this year but Lyonnesse seems to have the hardest time setting pods. I'm watching it to see whether she is truly a difficult pod parent or just fussy about being divided and transplanted. Almost all of my daylilies had an adjustment period before they would set pods for me, and Lyonnesse IS one of my newer ones, but the others I purchased the same day as her have already begun setting pods whereas she has not...not yet, anyway.

Lyonnesse is one of my latest-blooming varieties this year (2015) and she also takes awhile to open with nearly every bloom (the bloom begins mid-day and doesn't fully open until the following day). This is a lazy Lyonnesse, but still a strong, beautiful queen of the jungle. I really like this flower so far and I look forward to crossing her with cultivars that have larger blooms.

Titan of Ice is brand new for me this year, but its petals have REALLY good substance to them and the scape has a nice thickness. This is my FAVORITE daylily in my garden as of right now! (I think I like it even better than my Ruby Spider!) When I knew it was going to bloom on a particular day, the first thing I would do each morning was look out my window to see it with the giddy excitement of a kid at Christmas. It's hard to believe I *won* this beautiful daylily! It is definitely a valuable and extremely important cultivar to me.

Update on 8/24/15: I wish I'd had my second garden bed installed before I received Titan of Ice, because it is my favorite daylily so far and deserved a home in better soil than I gave it. I had planned to move it, but days after I got it and it started blooming, I watched in misery as a stiff wind--we get very high winds here!--from a rainstorm blew over the only scape I had, cracking the stem beneath the soil surface somewhere and it didn't bounce back up. (It has nice, thick scapes that didn't break at or above the ground level, but the huge, thick bloom caught the brunt of the wind and it probably cracked right at the crown, just below the soil. I stared at it out my window, willing it to bounce back up for several minutes before I ran out in the pouring rain, tied it to a stake in the ground, and crossed my fingers...and, fortunately, Titan pulled through like a champ and all of it's remaining buds bloomed out beautifully! But, as a result, I couldn't move it to better soil. It has been bloomed out for a couple of weeks now, but has a seedpod on it, so it'll have to stay in the less-than-ideal, clay-like soil for a little while longer. It isn't increasing, presumably as a result of the poor soil condition. As soon as the seedpods come off, though, I'm putting my beloved Titan of Ice in a garden bed with a nice compost/peat/topsoil blend that I hope it will love and use to take off.

This appears to have a green throat, not a white one like the description says. I LOVE the scapes and branching on this cultivar! Such strong scapes and 5-way branching are what sold me on this one.

The three pictures shown here look like they are three completely different daylilies. How strange! Does Damascus Road really have that much variation, or are there a couple of incorrect photo submissions?

Gentle Shepherd is probably my whitest white (I purchased it the day I took this photo). It starts out a little creamier in the morning and bleaches nicely into a whiter color. Its scapes aren't particularly strong, but are strong enough to support it standing straight up without bending or waving around too much.

Very strong scapes on this cultivar!

Edited to add: This daylily has nice, thick petals to its blooms and SUPER thick scapes, too. Its scapes may be the thickest in my garden. So far, marking it for hybridizing has been easy because the thick scapes allow for me to easily write on the scapes with permanent marker. The color of the blooms isn't my personal favorite since I don't typically care for pastels, but it's pleasing enough, a near-white with a light, peachy color to it and a yellow, bubbly edge. I'm looking forward to using it to improve the thickness of scapes and petals in my white (or even other color) crosses.

It's a nice, late-season variety that extends the bloom season in my garden, which helps delay the end-of-season sadness for a bit.

A comment that is on one of the photos but that bears repeating is that this cultivar has very unusual stamens! The stamens (that hold the anthers, or pollen), are actually attached to the petals!

This may make it more difficult to use as a pollen parent since you can't just pluck the stamen to dab on other plants. I don't know whether the pollen is actually fertile or not, but if you attempt to pollinate with this, you'll need to either rip a whole petal off (to which a stamen is attached) or use something else (like a Q-tip) to collect the pollen for dabbing.

Edited to add: This was my first blooming daylily (by far) in my garden for 2016. I've had 5 blooms on it for the early 2016 season and they have all been beautiful. Holds up VERY well, even after rain or long hot days. In 2015 (first year in my garden), it was a tough pod parent--although it did take multiple pods from a very particular pollen parent which it seemed to prefer over others (Starman's Quest)--and an average pollen parent.

This is a pretty light near-white. I saw it in 90+ degree heat on a very sunny day, but I compared it to other near-whites and it looked good. I almost purchased it, but Gentle Shepherd and Lyonnesse were whiter, so it didn't make the cut. (It's possible that Gentle Shepherd, because it's so thin, bleaches more quickly than this one.) If you're looking for whites, I definitely recommend looking into this one, especially if you love "oldies but goodies."

Appears to fade to a beautiful orange color after a sunny day.

(This is a new plant for me, but the first bloom yesterday was definitely a color changer.)

Edited to add: this is the only plant that poly'ed for me this first year (except those that are supposed to, like Give Me Eight...). After the first several blooms, the color became much clearer and didn't seem to fade anymore.

This is easily one of my favorite--maybe my favorite--daylilies! It is very cheery, doesn't fade in the sun, and doesn't wither in the rain. When it's blooming, it's really blooming! The flowers are so huge that they create a LOT of color. I'm considering moving it from where it currently is because it's so beautiful and showy, it's detracting from all of my other daylilies! It needs its own spot, where it can be the star of the show.

I recently took home a "fan" of this and it was more like a sprig of grass. The garden (in SE Michigan, zone 5b/6a) that I received this from said it is a very tender plant and has not flowered or grown at all.

So Many Stars is fragrant in my garden (zone 5b/6a).

This is very fragrant in my garden (5b/6a).