"What other daylilies do you have that are blooming now?"
None at present. The prior record holder for earliest daylily in my garden had been Earlybird Orangeade, which bloomed May 22 in 2023.
"Is there a possibility that Orangeman has been there all along and accidentally gotten split up and this just happened to be the perfect trifecta year for all of them to bloom??"
It's possible. Thought I was more careful, but if I'm saying that I thought it was lost, it might indeed have been moved. I keep a database of 450 daylilies in my garden, with location, date of bloom, source of purchase, photograph, AHS links. Take some pride in keeping it up to date, but sometimes the trip from the garden to the computer is interrupted. So perhaps it 'fell through the cracks."
Wondering if it was wedged between two other daylilies, which were also moved.
"As a side note, I live in the same town as Bloomingfields, but the one time I went there, no one was around and then they closed down."
When my daylily hobby took off, about ten years ago, very happy to find Bloomingfields website. One of the best websites for heirloom type daylilies I've ever visited. Made many purchases from them, and while ordering, would have pleasant gardening discussions with Diana Bristol, wife of daylily hybridizer Lee Bristol.
These are the daylilies I purchased from Bloomingfields, along with some height ratings:
Autumn Minaret 72 In.
Late Adagio 52 In.
Fall Fancy
Postlude 52 In.
Challenger
Upland Gold
Carol Sing
Flava Major
Princess Irene
Jolly White Giant
Early Evelyn
Orangeman
Dark Star
Firecracker Stars
Upland Canary
Autumn King 72 In.
Late Embers
Olallie Mack
Late Pompeii
Late Cream
Their website was fantastic. Too bad it wasn't maintained as an historical archive.