I'm in zone 2b; I've heard that SQ isn't nearly as aggressive in colder climates. Thanks for the help, Donna, but I'm afraid it's already a gonner. I dug it up, cleaned off all the dirt, and put it in a very dilute bleach solution. After about half an hour, I inspected the roots again...even though many of the roots still look white and healthy, and the plant itself still looks fairly healthy, the crown/base of roots is all black. I guess the rest of the plant is living on stored energy and will die soon. *sigh* So I threw it out.

Chris - I haven't had the problem with white daylilies with blue or purple eyes appearing more peach, but I don't have too many of those. Mystic Mariner aerries and Cream come to mind, and I never have a peach problem with them. Here the cream daylilies usually appear more yellow.My seedling above and the other round seedling of mine with with a blue violet eye and edge have pink undertones. It could be Lambertson's looked that way because of your cool nights. I know a lot of his blues look purple farther north. Purple Eyed Dragonfly is a light cream yellow. Debra

I tried to rescue a few plants several years ago, when they were growing in an empty lot where an apartment building was going up. (I know several, if not most of the Florida scrub lupines are on the endangered native plant list, but sure enough, the rest of those beautiful plants were bulldozed under several weeks later) Like you, I was careful to dig the long tap root and took a bucket of surrounding soil to use in the new planting hole. Even with careful watering, they died promptly and never returned. I've read that the only way to propagate them is by seed and even that is usually unsuccessful, with some seeds sprouting 2-3 years after planting, but most never sprout.

Whoo hoo! What a beautiful flower. I love it! I forgot where you said you got the vine to start with. Remember -- I saw something similar at the S. A. Zoo. I go there to look at the plants more than the animals