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Very easy to layer and often does it without human intervention.

The plant hated the full sun. I moved it to a shadier spot and it still wasn't happy. For a time I was sure it was dead. Once I planted it in a spot with only morning sun it resumed growth. I hope to get some blooms in 2014.

This daylily never disappoints. It blooms in sun, shade or anything in between. A pleasure to own.

I found this one very disappointing. I haven't seen a perfect bloom in all the time I've owned it.

Forms many proliferations and each one will develop into an identical duplicate of the mother plant.

Fancy Face was one of the biggest disappointments I've had with buying daylilies. The colors on mine hardly resemble the photo of cream and blue but it's a horrid gold and orangey brown instead.

Becky Lynn is so very reliable. Never disappoints, always opens beautifully.

It measures 41" high here.

Purchased at Eartheart Gardens, Maine, from owner/hybridizer Sharon Whitney. Strong performer and reliable rebloomer.

So very slow to expand. Still not a robust plant after seven years!

Ocean Mist is our favorite of all the Japanese irises we have. We bought it in '95 and despite the purchase of hundreds more JI's, it remains our favorite one. Some years the bloom has grown to 12" wide.

This is a very small flower.

Normally it is a great orange but got pale fast - maybe the heat.

This dahlia had more flowers than any other in the garden. At one point there were more than 100 blooms open at once.

Much more beautiful than the picture shows it to be.

American Dream is a wonderful dahlia and probably my favorite or at least a tie with Vancouver.

At the end of the season I made the mistake of not dividing the plant. The tubers had grown into several plants and should have been divided. It grew itself to death (sounds silly, I know) the following year. Unless dahlias are divided, regardless of the growing zone, the ball of tubers can't get sufficient nutrients to survive. People will notice fewer and fewer blooms and attribute it to something other than the true cause - they do need to divide dahlias.

Did not develop any mildew while other dahlias did.

Not subject to powdery mildew here.

When I moved them from one garden to another they did not grow large the following year. They took the entire year off and did not bloom at all.