More blooming here.


Absolute Treasure


At Sunset


Big Bang Theory


Bordello Queen this one has lots of bloom


Butter Cream

Still blooming:

DREAM QUEEN



SUZY CREAM CHEESE



FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS

Had to resize some photos, here are more.


Diddley Squat with Echinacea Leilani love them both.


Diva In Diamonds lots of diamond dusting.


Blue Pink Beauty


Follow Your Dreams


Itzan Ex Sixteen


Jamie Dockery


Khorassan


Lemon Fringed Pastel


Malcolm David Brooker Sr


Mary Frances Ragain


Nordic Night


Persian Ruby


Respighi


Sassy Shannon


Smuggler's Bounty lots of bloom


Upper Echelon


Webster's Pastel Beauty

Lemon Fringed Pastel is lovely!!!

I love Lemon Fringed Pastel too. Today I planted a seedling (Searstower X Lemon Fringed Pastel), unfortunately only one.

Flowers from today














the last rose flower - called Heidi Klump


















a seedling, I call it Hannelore








Autumn Minaret, Citralt, Ed Brown, Flames Of Fortune, Gold Embroidery, Jay Faquar, Pico De Gallo, Sammy Russel?, Spanish Fort (solt as Ed Murrar - def. not), Yuma

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Beautiful pictures everyone!

As always - gorgeous photos - from all across the world! Thanks for posting everyone.

I finally "caught up" and got my photos out of the camera. These cooler temps and all that rain have sure made my daylilies go like crazy this year - and some of my earlies are still blooming 5-6 weeks later. It has never been so good here.

Spider To The Fly and Wayside Red Chief


Easy Ned - growing among my asparagus and Westbourne Blackberry Cobbler


I am pretty sure this is Proudly We Hail - this scape looks like a leek! It's HUGE! I also can't verify this - because I can't find a photo to compare it to anywhere, even the hybridizers website. I never have gotten around to asking him if it is or not. I love this flower no matter what it is, so I don't mind.


Small Carbon Footprint. and August Flame


Steve's Corn Rows - this large flower is on a very short scape - but I just got it a few months ago. Love it


Westbourne Valentine's Day and Lilting Belle - the best it has ever looked.


Sparkling Orange + Fire King + Small Carbon Footprint in the upper corner


And look at this gorgeous little FFO today - Little Surfer Girl, a mini. The photo does NOT do it justice, the colors are more vivid than this - and I just LOVE it. Now it needs to increase a bit (OK, I AM pushing it's zone)


Even though I am past peak, I still have a lot blooming. The cooler weather and excess moisture has helped, but I will admit that some of my ones with teeth - are missing them.I wish I had taken a toothless photo of Tooth Tower today to compare it with ones from several weeks ago

And I have to admit, that at this point, I have to say the absolute best bloomer this summer has been Holly Dancer. There is something to be said for some of these older ones. The color is SO gorgeous, and the number of buds STILL waiting to bloom this year is outstanding. Wish my camera could capture the color and substance of this flower better - I have been trying to get a better picture since it started blooming 5 weeks or so ago.


My Indian Giver, which outdid itself last year, still doesn't have any scapes - I am not sure I will see any blooms on it this season - bummer.

~Jan

My Indian Giver did not bloom well this year. I think I only had one scape on a 6 fan clump.

Beautiful daylilies and pics everyone!

The wild rabbits (Eastern Cottontails) have chewed off some of the stems that had buds on them, so I would have had more flowers blooming. Guess they were tasting the stems, didn't like them and left them on the ground.

Cindy, sounds like my Indian giver, it's not doing well at all.

Jan- HOLLY DANCER has been a standout here for many, many years. I think most of Jamie Gossard's lovely reds go back to HOLLY. I wish it would have stood a chance at a Stout Medal for Dottie. It really is an outstanding red. It does "canoe" a bit, but it's got good branching, nice scapes, good budcount. And, it's a really good parent. I have it in the tet conversion also.

Juli I agree with your comments on Holly Dancer. It has always been great for me - but this year... WOW. And it does deserve the Stout Medal in my opinion

As for Indian Giver - I wonder if it doesn't like all the rain we had earlier this season - or if it is an every other year type of flower. It bloomed like crazy last year for me- then rebloomed. But we did have a ton of snow also this past winter too.

Thank goodness rabbits aren't too major of a problem here, usually. They do tend to migrate to my blueberry bushes, which I now have fenced. And I have dogs, which love to chase them. Are you sure they aren't having jousting matches with your scapes instead? ~Jan

Rabbit jousting matches with DL scapes! My Mom used to HATE rabbits because they always did that to her plants - chop off a stem of whatever with loads of unopened buds, and then not even eat it! At least they don't damage the entire plant that way. I want Holly Dancer. I have a few of Jamie Gossard's reds that I need to check to see if it's in their backgrounds...

Lisa

Jan: Just to confirm what you said about 'Indian Giver'. It was the top 'underperformer' in my garden this summer with just 1 scape and 2 buds. It definitely must have something to do with the abundance of rain this year.

Lisa, I have a clump of HD that needs dividing.....

Well that makes 4 of us that had an underperforming Indian Giver. It must not have liked all the rain.

Just as a matter of interest, I just counted up those plants that did not bloom this summer. Not counting the seedlings, I had 28 plants that did not bloom at all. Some are new to the garden this Spring, so I can't fault that, I do have older plants that still have never bloomed for me, but have increased in fan size, which is good. I was disappointed that 'Bridey Greeson', which bloomed last year, had no blooms at all this year. The same with Trimmer's, 'Florence Denny', bloomed last year, but not this summer. I amended the soil around 'Dovelicious' a SF which produced another new fan this summer. I have learned which hybridizers or LA sellers which state SF usually send DF's and triple fans, or at the least give you the plant increases. I do keep a list of LA sellers that I would not purchase any more plants from. I do realize that some plants are slow to increase. For my zone 4b garden, with such a shortened growing season, this info is invaluable to me.

Hemlady said:Well that makes 4 of us that had an underperforming Indian Giver. It must not have liked all the rain.

I was sure Indian Giver would be a good bloomer but It did nothing. I think one small flower was all I saw and it was not photogenic.

I usually don't have any problems with Indian Giver. I usually get nice bloom with it but this year was entirely different.

Wet, warm, humid so different from the chilly dry weather we were having last week. Hope to get some more images tomorrow of the later bloomers. For now we will have to make do with images of the past few weeks - I'm still getting caught up!

Aegean Wind



Black Falcon Ritual



Owl Ears



Round Midnight



Soft Hearted Mother



Sugar Plum Jam



Substanial Evidence



Unconditional Love



and a few sculpted forms

Clear Fork



Delta Phase



Ghost Dragon



Jean Hamilton Memorial



Parting the Red Sea



Song of the Empire



Supreme Empire