Jason - Thank you for all your very helpful advice. I still have quite a few daylilies that have not bloomed yet. In March (Spring here), I added time-released fertilizer to all my daylily beds. But that fertilizer is probably gone by now, so I want to get blooms from the ones that may be mid-season and late-season. All of mine are hybrids and most are blooming for the first time this year. I have 3 raised beds in partial shade which they all look great! There is one raised 3-tiered bed full of seedlings as well as all along my front garden where many many more seedlings are. Quite a few have put up scapes and some are reblooming currently. But some have yet to bloom and I am thinking they may be late-season bloomers. I think the fertilizer helped to get them to bloom this year.
I do use a soaker hose along my entire front garden border. And the rest of the daylily gardens have micro-irrigation in each bed. The partial shade daylilies have the best looking folliage of all of my daylilies. I think the intense heat and sun literally fries some of the full sun daylily leaves. I can actually feel what may be a 10 degree difference in the partial shade gardens vs the full sun. It is brutally hot here this time of year up until about the end of October. Rainfall is also needed. Rainy season is in June and July typically. So I am hoping that if I use a time-released fertilizer and then the rains start coming each afternoon, then that will promote the rest of the daylilies to bloom and maybe get some more reblooms. What do you think?
