Margaret and Christine, I really enjoyed the photos you posted. It is nice to see others with lots of blooms. Mine are about finished blooming, just a very few each day.
This bloom should be called Almost Open Hearth! Please post a picture if it opens like is should. I can't imagine it being prettier, but it probably is!
I collect late daylilies. In fact made a bed of some of them since seeing one or two blooms in a bed of just foliage and old scapes was depressing to me. It's a failure though. It is inside several other beds under a lilac tree and can't really be seen unless one walks around all the other 'dead' beds to go look!
I'll share a few that are late to very late blooms.
FAREWELL PARTY - Hibbard was a small hybridizer on Long Island and introduced several lates.
JOANNA LEE AHRENS - Hanson produces several late bloomers. He says its because by the time he had time to start selecting it was late in the season, and one year led to another of lates! Named for his sister
About 1/4 of my daylilies are midlates, lates or very lates. I too try to purchase lates because I too hate the dead beds. The problem I am havingis that many of the lates are blooming mid to midlate for me. I had pretty good blooms in July - same as last year, and very little now, although I am seeing some scapes & reblooms.
Last year I attributed it to the majority of the daylilies being new & their seasons screwed up. This year it's the hot summer, many things have bloomed up to 3 weeks earlier than normal.
I have a few lates that haven't bloomed yet, and am not yet seeing scapes on, so I am crossing my fingers. I also have reblooms coming because of the extended season so I shouldn't complain too loudly. I still have about 4 blooming on any given day right now. Hopefully things will continue to improve over the next few years.
I was hoping some of my seedlings would be lates, but they are all bloomed out already. ~Jan
Name: stephanie king cut bank, MT z 3a-4b Life is what you make it, so make i
Love all these blooms. Have not been posting much as R. hand still bad also am selling a bunch of seedlings I cannot get planted. Will try again next year.
sdlg # 84-11-1 FEAR NOT X ALAN LANE AGIN
sdlg 84-11-2 FEAR NOT X ALAN LANE AGIN-a little more pink than #1.
SDLG A3210-1-VIVACIOUS PAM X ORANGE GROVE
SDLG 44-1 SWEET OLE MAN X FRINGY-will hold 1 yr and see if it improves. Small but did try to poly on 2nd. bloom. and a little more ruffle but pretty sad still.
Later photo 
My daylilies loved the 90 -100 F weather ! 
