shive1 said:Dana and Betty - Picasso's Intrigue has gorgeous blooms, but it is not a good performer for me. My highest bud count over the years is 10 on a scape - most scapes have only 8. It does seem a bit tender here, so Dana I hope it makes it for you in Ohio.

I'm not buying many southern daylilies because they just don't perform very well for me.

@shive1 Debra, I am curious how Mister Mayor does for you. I have had for a few years and it is rather pathetic.

shive1 said:Dana and Betty - Picasso's Intrigue has gorgeous blooms, but it is not a good performer for me. My highest bud count over the years is 10 on a scape - most scapes have only 8. It does seem a bit tender here, so Dana I hope it makes it for you in Ohio.

Oh boy! I did "shop" for her DL in the late month threads. I was sure I saw it blooming late in the same zone as mine 🤷 🤷 I've dangled the carrot already but I think she'll understand if it changes to a different cultivar, as long as it's just as jawdropping.

Any suggestions for an extended bloomer (nearly all season ) with the same deep or, better yet, black purple color, and preferably a chartreuse throat and ruffled or tooth edges? Not too tall though.....

I'm looking at my collection first to gift to my Counselor. The only other two I have are: Halloween Effect (new this year) Black to The Future (new last year in) Obviously I haven't had them long enough to know how well they perform. Any thoughts or other suggestions?

Celeste - Princess Syndrome is gorgeous!
Jill - I just got Mister Mayor this Spring as a single fan, so I don't have a performance report on it yet. I hope it will perform as well for me as most other Davissons. The only one that hasn't done well here is Confessions of a Hemaholic, and it just may be in a bad spot.

Wow, superb blooms everybody!

Jill and Celeste, you both sure have the prettiest purple blooms! Can't wait to see more purple blooms from both of your gardens.

Debra, Boundless Beauty looks wonderful!

My nicest one today is Transitions



Free Wheelin


Alabama Swing


Buddy's Shaun

WAYAH VALLEY
Hensley 2007
Zone 4a
31 inches
FFO

Charley

EMERALD SPLENDOR
Wilson 1993
Zone 5a
24 inches
A favorite from a while back. I had to have it in our garden.


MARAUDER
Maryott 2005
Zone 4a
32 inches


'LIL' RED WAGON
Kinnebrew 2003
Zone 4a
25 inches
A.T.G. 2009
Great little red, the color is very rich and deep here.

Charley

I goofed--put these two on the June page, so making the correction here:


The Food Channel--FFE-surprise bloom, didn't expect it to flower so soon.

Pointed Perfection-FFO--it's very showy

July is really coming on with all the beautiful pictures being posted, an absolute treat for the eyes.

A star always finds her spotlight. WIGGLY PIGGLY in a random shaft of sunlight just before sunset.

Charley

Life has calmed down a bit, so I went outside around noon to take some daylily pics. Not the best light for sure.

I know this is a lot of pics. I'm just starting to get excited about my daylilies again, after coming to the realization that a large percentage of them have rust.

Opting Out:


Irving Shulman:


Special Moment:


Rock Me Baby:


Woodside Amethyst:


Grape Velvet:


Flight of the Raven:


Tall Dark Stranger:


Galactic Center:


Vision Seeker:


Sultry Song:


Atlas Shrugged:


Sunday Gloves:

Beautiful blooms everyone!

Avedon, the Food Channel is very nice! I haven't seen a bad pic of this one yet.

Charley, great shot of Wiggly Piggly against the light of the sunset. It is perfect!

Ken, you have a lot of pretty lavenders! I also like Sunday Gloves very much. I am so sorry to hear that you have rust. It is inevitable if you get daylilies from a warmer zone. I tried to prevent the rust by doing as follows: First I strip all the outer leaves until only the white part is shown. Next, I cut back the foliage down to about 2-3". Place all the cut and stripped off foliage into a bag and disposed of it in the trash. Then I plant the daylilies. After the daylilies are planted and watered, I sprayed the part above ground generously with Daconil. I sprayed it again 2 more times every other day. So far I have not seen rust on my new purchases for this year yet. I did buy some from vendors who told me that they got rust in their gardens for this year. You only need to do this extreme treatment for purchases of daylilies grown in zones where winters are not cold enough to kill it.

Don't you just love SUNDAY GLOVES? I do.

Charley

Me too, Charley. I just got Sinday Gloves last Fall, and it is blooming very nicely now.

Today's FFOs

MEAN GREEN



DOCTOR HANDSOME



CHRISTMAS IN OZ



SILVER SWORD



DIVAS IN DIAMONDS



CAT DANCER



Also..
LOVE N LOUJEAN



SOLI DEO GLORIA



and a poly on SWEET ISABELA

'Europa' FFO today in the ditch as well as in the isolated garden clump.

BAFFIN BAY BEAUTY
Carpenter 2003
Zone 5a
26"


BETTY FORD
Kirchhoff 2002
Zone 4a
30 inches
AM 2010



LAVENDER STARDUST
Carpenter 1991
Zone 3
26 inches



LINDA SIERRA
Peat 2006
Zone 4a
27 inches

Low bud count, short scapes, small blooms. Water?

Charley



Much truer photo of BETTY FORD. This was taken after some clouds rolled in and this is what BETTY FORD looks like to my eyes. I don't know what I did on the first version but it was not good camera craft.

Charley

Two FFES on Margo Reed's Sand Witch--some of the prettiest sand I have ever seen.



Here is bloom #2 of The Food Channel


Blue Viper put up two new scapes and this is the first bloom


Little Witching Hour--four new scapes on rebloom. Beautiful pattern and green throat on this one.

Lovely blooms, everyone!

Jeanne Deaver's Dream


Angels Bow Down ffo


Carolina Cool Down ffo


There's A Place

FFE on Bam
AM:

PM - I like its PM color better:


FFE on another of the no-name daylilies from Wild, and I think it's adorable. It has a lot of buds for something planted only a few months back. I've nicknamed it "Mini-bagel" because of its size and shape.
AM:

PM - not too much fading and it holds its shape nicely.

Wow!! Which I had the space for everyone of them.


Mandolin