Hi Sunnyterrace, I have lots of pepper seeds I would love to trade for some of your daylily seeds. Please check my list and let me know if you are interested. thanks, Linda

Like this one? this is not white swan but I cannot remember the name! I have a yellow and Pow wow Wild berry just starting to bloom. This post was edited by aquawise on Wed, Jul 23, 14 at 17:46

If you research daylilies via online sellers, there are those that bloom early, mid-season or late. I've not found any (other than Stella d'Oro) that bloom throughout the season. Echinacea/coneflowers generally bloom later in the growing season and the blooms are long-lasting. Shasta daisy is stunning in bloom but its bloom period is typically mid-summer and not especially long (3-4 weeks). It may be extended with dead-heading but that hasn't been my experience. My Walkers Low catmint generally blooms from early summer until fall and daily attracts pollinators. I have it growing beside Baptisia australis/false indigo which blooms late spring and retains its foliage elegance until it goes dormant in fall. I have a part shade bed where I grow Spirea, Buddleia/butterfly bush, Solomon's seal, astilbe, primula/primrose, hosta, euphorbia, columbine, Montauk daisy, Maltese cross & cranesbill, among others. I've been gardening 40+ years and have yet to find any perennials that bloom from early summer and into fall.

Hi everyone, Well, I am double posting this in 2 forums - I hope nobody minds. As promised, here I am posting about what in the world I've been doing all summer while traveling to & fro Wisconsin. As some of you already know, I work with fish-eating birds: cormorants, pelicans, herons, egrets, gulls, wood storks, etc. My husband and I have been working in Wisconsin for the past 3 years, but we also regularly work in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Ontario, and a few other places. Yes, we are a husband + wife team, working together out of the same office. Many people are surprised that we work together, but it is great. We make a fantastic team, and are often at our best under challenging field conditions. Great minds think alike, and being dear friends & in love sure helps too. (ok, enough with the mushy stuff). So now for a few photos from the vegetation surveys we did this month. Background: We are working on remote islands in Lake Michigan, around the Door Co. Peninsula area. All the islands have nesting double-crested cormorants and herring gulls. Some also have nesting Am. white pelicans and Canada geese. Back in April, we put up some 6 ft x 6 ft pens (we call them exclosures) to exclude the cormorants because they damage vegetation with their nesting activities (too much POOP!). So then we went back in August to catalog everything that grew in the pens, by plant species, and weighed it to also determine biomass. That meant breaking out the field guides, studying up on botany and the flora of Wisconsin, and bringing the plant presses for species we couldn't identify on the island. We compareed the exclosure plots to some "control" plots, which had nothing but 4 wooden stakes at the corners. We had 45 plots to do on 3 islands, plus another 3 islands down by the city of Green Bay that we did simple vegetation surveys on (no pens). It was alot of work, but very interesting. The bottom line: there are lots of nonnative species on those islands, like motherwort, catnip, pigweed, common mallow, stinging nettle and sow thistle. The native vegetation was primarily lambsquarter and smartweed species. Almost done clipping this 1-meter plot: Looking for small plants beneath the lambsquarter The finished, sampled 1-meter subplot Who would even know what this was?!?! I saved seeds to winter sow and see if I can't figure it out. The very last veg plot to measure. You can tell, because we look so happy! A friend found crawling across the plant press The stinging nettle I hacked through to make us a nice trail to get to the center of the island. At least its not poison ivy! Ok, that's all for now. Have a great evening. Katie (heh - I've been working on this post for days!)