Thank you everyone - you are magnificent.

First time ever flowering in the garden - another of Bron's gifts. TROPICAL HEATWAVE.



I am a sucker for orange and yellow. I know people of the Northern Hemisphere think such colours are common because these hues run wild. But they are fetching down here and unfamiliar.

Two clumps of SPACECOAST RUFFLES up and running today.




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COOL RUNNINGS is a substantial and imposing bloom



PICCADILLY PRINCESS


BRAVE KEMO SABE


HIGH ENDEAVOUR


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The gladies are coming. Run away.


It is interesting, Donald, about the first blooms. I suppose it is like learning to drive or something. The gears don't go into place easily but with a bit of practice you get it right it is easy sailing from then on.

(added later: was that a mixed metaphor?)

Gorgeous, Glen! Keep 'em comin'!

You have great oranges Still loving Cool Runnings!

Nice blooms Glen.

A lovely feast Glen. No blooms on my THW or PP. They should both keep blooming lots.

Scapes n buds everywhere but taking a long while to mature. We are still having cool nights, about 9 deg F cooler than the nearby airport right on the coast. I like it cooler.

Last bloom on BLACKBERRY JACK for a while. It is not a dark yellow, but it was today only a tiny bit deeper than the pics. Also was larger bloom last year. Tomorrow I will cut off the scape which has rust on it. Visible in second pic.


2 clumps of MARCIA FAY were blooming. I shld have nipped off the old bloom, but wanted to show the bigger clump is blooming every day now. no rust on it. It really is a clear mid/deep pink. Think it got me hooked on daylilies.

Nice blooms gentlemen!
Glen all your daylilies look like they have good substance to them! The coloring is very nice! Good job! Do you grow your glads for the garden or for cutting?
Bron Blackberry Jack is so dreamy looking with a good eye! That Marcia Fay is simply gorgeous! I can see why she hooked you on daylilies! Good job! Glad it is cooler for you!
May you have joy and peace as your constant companion !

I do the gladies mainly for the garden, Rose. But if it is windy I will cut them for the vase.

LOVE that Cool Runnings and Brave Kemo Sabe! I think I will have to add those to my want list if they are available here. Love the Tropical Heat Wave and Linden Belle as well!! Nice yellow seedling as well.............

So, how big are these scrub turkeys??? Are they edible ...... Thanksgiving is coming up! He could do some down under celebrating just because the turkeys were handy! Sounds like big birds if they make nests that large!!

My niece lived in Australia for a couple of years and know that they have a lot of import restrictions. Are you able to import daylilies?

Hello Gen, they are very large. About the size of a smallish turkey. The nests can get to 20X7 feet. Gardeners can go crazy when they go to work and come home to find the garden, including the contents of pot plants, heaped up down the back of the house. A friend of mine uses mirrors at the chosen nest sites so the birds think a turkey is already there.

Alas, restrictions are tight for importing seeds and plants into Oz. Since rust, there has been a slowing of importing because of these restrictions and costs.

Here is another BRAVE KEMO SABE for you from this morning.

It is saying it wants to move to your house.

Flowering for the first time this season SPACECOAST COLOUR SCHEME

I moved it this year and the fingers are crossed it gets another fan after 3 seasons.

Last night, I accidentally set the alarm to 5.30pm instead of AM. My bees had ran off with most of the pollen before I made it down to the garden.

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ASH ROSIE is actually quite a beautiful blossom.




ROSE is a large, thick, veined bloom.


RETRO AFTERNOON


CROWNING FIRE


OKLAHOMA SAND BURR


SPINEFELD


FULL OF TREASURE I quite like but it might be too rusty for me.

I'm having a hard time picking favorites lately!

Bron, I love the custard coloring on Blackberry Jack and the scapes on Marcia Fay are fantastic. They are holding up those huge blooms!

Brave Kemo Sabe!

Wow! I am certainly taking note of what Glen and Bron are growing! I recently acquired Spacecoast Colour Scheme. Yours is lovely, Glen! I like Ash Rosie, too! Beautiful!!! How are they doing concerning rust?

All those vivid colors are so appealing! I am also having a hard time picking a favorite. That is the issue with daylilies I want them all! Fantastic job! May the month be full of happiness for you!

Becky, I think SC Color Scheme is resistant.
Ash Rosie, alas, is susceptible.

Interestingly, Ash Rose is a defined colour. From Websters:

"Definition of ash rose
:  a variable color averaging a grayish red that is bluer and paler than bois de rose, bluer and less strong than appleblossom or Pompeian red, and bluer, lighter, and stronger than livid brown."

But what attracts me is the graduation of colour from the throat, greenish to yellow to orange and then to an indented, ghostly watermark before ash rose. On the sepals the bases are almost white.

Click on the image. It is like a feather from some exotic parrot species.

Love that throat

Love the description.

DEBBIE MEAD for the first time this season. It failed to flower last season. But putting a shovel next to it has worked wonders. I am chasing its sculptedness not its supposed doubleness.


These two keep on mass blooming.
HIGH ENDEAVOUR


DALRIADA


Not Lavender Blue Baby and I still wonder who you are? First flower for the season.


RETRO AFTERNOON. It has quite a presence.


EMMAUS


PICCADILLY PRINCESS


This seedling is flowering again. Am I warming to it? I know not. It is better than the first bloom but this could be imagined
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First time ever flowering in my garden but not a good beginning bloom. COLLIER

Gleni said:
It is interesting, Donald, about the first blooms. I suppose it is like learning to drive or something. The gears don't go into place easily but with a bit of practice you get it right it is easy sailing from then on.

(added later: was that a mixed metaphor?)

I tend to think variable weather along with maturity cause a lot of it. For that reason I think it's not necessarily always something the plant will outgrow because the factor causing it is not really in the plant. And even maturity is not proof against it either. A week of really cold weather or a week of really hot weather while the scapes and buds are growing wouldn't exempt a plant because of its age. Would it? Easy sailing might not be the case then. Just because you drive well on a paved highway in late spring doesn't mean you would be able to drive equally well when the roads get iced over. Or washed out. Or on muddy unpaved surfaces. A plant that could shift all those gears would be nice, but there may not be all that many that can manage it. A new seedling, unfortunately, has little to no experience.

Glen you're putting me in daylily heaven again. Great blooms