Stan, most of my daylilies are growing in pots on tables so that I can move them into shade when I pollenate, and I can also move them out to my back lawn for pictures. And I use those circle stakes to make sure the scapes don't flop around and break during moves. For the black backgrounds, I have discovered that if I take a picture of a bloom in sunlight and the background is my lawn in the morning shade of the house, the background appears totally black.
