Yellow Bouquet is blooming today - March 18.
It's a pretty little double, but not a prolific bloomer. If it didn't provide some much needed color early in the season, I'd have disposed of it long ago.
I lost my Pearl Harbors last year so I ordered more and planted in the fall. They are full of scapes!
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
And so it begins....I'm particularly partial to yellow daylilies, and the shade of yellow on Yellow Bouquet is so sunshiney yellow, that I'd be pleased to see it too........Pearl Harbor is another nice one....Waiting for more to come.......Maryl
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly" South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b) "The mountains are calling..."
These aren't the "First" blooms for 2015 (those were earlier this month, I believe, but I wasn't paying much attention), but "today" (March 18) I had blooms on 'Raspberry Banana Cheesecake' and 'Ballerina on Ice'. The latter did not fully open, but at least the two blooms gave some interest to the garden. I have one scape with buds on each of 'Steller's Jay', 'Full Moon Magic', and 'Because of You'; SJ looks like it might have FFO tomorrow or the day after.
Yellow Bouquet has always bloomed heavily for me and reblooms again also. It is the first to bloom-Memorial Day wkend here. John, maybe it doesn't like zone 9? I had it in zone 5.
Frillylily said:Yellow Bouquet has always bloomed heavily for me and reblooms again also. It is the first to bloom-Memorial Day wkend here. John, maybe it doesn't like zone 9? I had it in zone 5.
It rebloomed here last year in 9a. However, it seems to put more energy into increasing like rabbits than it does into blooming.
It's good to see blooms from two of you. So pretty! Winter was too long for most of us, and it's great to see flowers again. All I have blooming here are daffodils.
'Steller's Jay' did have FFO today, but someone, in his crazed defense of the garden (from critters great and small), apparently ran through the clump and broke the scape.
Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom
Love beautiful daylilies with great rust resistant ratings, may have to add that one to my increasing want list, plus it is extra early it seems! Not many like that to be found.
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly" South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b) "The mountains are calling..."
The bud count and branching are not high (at least, not where I have it, where it gets a lot of shade), but if the drought here gets to a severe mandatory rationing state, this will be one of the last daylilies standing.
Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom