Here on the beach, spring was long and cool. Delightful for people, not so much for daylilies.
For my daylilies, this year has been a mixed bag . Some plants look robust and big while others whimper and look like it's mid-August. The most disturbing part of this is that 4 and 5 months of rebloom isn't going to happen. So far, there has been "instant" rebloom on a limited number of plants, but on the south side of the house, the daylilies have bloomed and are done. Unheard of!! In the backyard, which has more shade, very few daylilies are showing rebloom scapes. I told my husband last night not to expect blooms in August, September, October and November. That's normal. This isn't. Also it's very difficult to judge plants--what to remove and what stays. For instance, Grand Pacific had 4- and 5-way scapes last year. This year it's only the top two branches with no rebloom showing. Big difference
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This has been uber depressing and would be devastating to a gardener first starting with daylilies. Usually the season here is from March to November. This year, first bloom was 3/26 on a new plant that came from Michelle last fall. Last bloom will probably be sometime in July. Blooms on the EE, E, and EMRe, have been a month late, but the late bloomers are on time.
It's been fairly dry, but in the last four days we've had rain everyday. Guess I'll have to busy myself with cutting spent scapes and weeding beds. Put the camera away and try not to get royally annoyed with the expensive plants that are really, really confused.
Hope everyone else is having a much prettier, productive bloom season!!
