Louise, I have DLs Purple D'Oro, Little Business, Little Bumble Bee, Custard Candy, Lavender Tonic, 1 fan of Coach's Pride, Pandora's Box, Duke of Durham, Raspberry Pixie and Siloam New Toy. I would be interested in trading fan for fan for: Get Set  1 Lavender Doll  1 Rose Veil  1 Fairy Tale Pink  1 Prairie Blue Eyes  1 If this interests you, PLMK. Thanks, Pat

I have a commercial Strawberry called' Honeyo', Latham Red Raspberry, 'Lemon Drop' Daylily, Hardy Geranium, Lily of the Valley, Red Bee Balm, Pink Phlox, Silver Lanium, Adjuga (purple flower) Hosta Honeybelles and Undual Marginata.

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All my daylilies are planted in mixed borders of trees, shrubs, grasses and perennials, some areas being more heavily daylilies than others. Through the years I have tried all kinds of combinations. However, I'm so far north of you that it is hard for me to make really specific perennial plant suggestions. Here are some ideas that may be somewhat helpful for you. I like catmints and salvias with my daylilies, both for their contrasting overall shapes and leaf textures, and for their colors. The soft blues of catmints or deep blues of salvias can be matched with almost any color scheme, & where you live you can use lots of salvias in many colors that I cannot. I also like things like gaura and knautia around daylilies. They act as sort of see-through plants and also move in the wind (daylilies can be sort of static looking). Their small flowers are also a neat contrast to the big daylily blooms. I also use quite a few yarrows. Their flat flowers contrast with the daylily flower and can be used to make nice color echoes to the daylily color, or even sometimes to the eyes of daylilies. Sedums, with their long season and thickish foliage, also can be used near daylilies, providing just a bit of architectural effect to a planting of mostly so so strappy daylily foliage. In addition to the above kinds of plants I also like to interplant bulbs that bloom before & after the daylilies bloom. This can be a bit of a problem, if you move things a lot! You might also want to consider adding a small amount of late blooming perennials or grasses to the area. I find that after the big explosion of daylily color that I am quite satisfied with a smaller display & a more monochromatic soothing palette later in the season. A couple of nice clusters of late blooming perennials also helps pull the eye away from the declining daylily foliage. As for overall design and layout of the beds, I was wondering if you plan on putting paths through the area. I would plan out how you want to move yourself and wheel barrows & do maintenance through the area. Do you need a large walkway to the ranch gate with other paths leading out from there? Once the traffic flow is determined, it becomes much easier to plan the bed layout. When I looked at your drawing I immediately thought of a swirl pattern through and around various trees, with large pennisular areas in open spaces, and smaller areas with special collections here and there. You could move the color through the beds in various ways as well, in a rainbow type way or in the high contrast way I prefer. It just depends what you want. BTW, the paths you make (whether formal or just places you can step into the beds to work) do not need to be formal or necessarily wide (at least not everywhere). Mowed meadow paths look wonderful around daylilies, & mulch or stepping stones can also be used with or without larger paths. If you do decide to make winding paths through the area, you may find that some of the beds will become almost island beds and you can plant them as such, with taller plants in the middle and shorter ones to the front. This mix of heights can add an extra bit of interest to daylily beds, and both the island style and the more graduated pattern of short to tall planting of one-sided beds can be used effectively in different parts of the same garden. You can also use something large like a big tall grass (or two) to mark a bend in the road, or as I tend to do, use it to hide small plants in secret areas, often changing the path texture or narrowing one part & continuing the rest of the path in another direction. If you want to see everything in my garden, sometimes you have to hunt. LOL. Sorry, this got so long...but you asked a big question! Have fun with your new gardens.