Daylily 'Morrie Otte'

Mauve with silver frost eyezone and green throat.

I have been very impressed with MORRIE OTTE. I knew I would like the flower, I'd seen enough photos to know. But you can't tell what the ...Read Moreplant will be like until you grow it. This one has proven to be a joy. The leaves are a good clear green, no yellowness. The flowers are held above the foliage. The scapes are loaded with buds, so the bloom time is pretty long. And, it reblooms! The only problem I have is that I planted it too far from the path!

11/7 -- I just discovered that MORRIE OTTE has rotted away to nothing, when all the daylilies around it are doing fine to great. How disappointing! Rot is caused by several pathogens, the kind I usually 'see' in daylilies is rapid and leaves no trace of the plant. It can happen within a week. I have a big garden, and a family, and a life outside gardening, so there are times that I don't see part of the garden for that long. I have not examined this particular area closely since the daylilies got done blooming in July. The mulch is deep, the weeds are not abundant there, grin.

Unless others down here have experienced this same event, my tale of woe means only that my particular plant suffered some injury which allowed the soil-bourne fungus entry to its crown. There are a few daylilies reported to rot often, in several areas. MORRIE OTTE isn't one of those, to my knowledge. I don't use chemicals unless forced to, so if I have a susceptible plant, it isn't long for this world. It's very sad in this case. MORRIE OTTE is truely a striking little flower.