Hi Ted and welcome to the daylily forum. :) Reblooming dl's are not like reblooming iris (I've got both also). Most of the time, but not always, your dl's will begin to grow new bloom scapes immediately after the first ones are finished blooming. Some will even begin to put up new scapes before the old ones have finished, this is called continuous rebloom. However, you do not always have rebloom. I think a lot of it depends on the weather, the amount of water they get, etc. For instance...this year was not a good one weather wise for my dl's. We've been in terrible drought conditions and I've had to water constantly. I had a lot of bud drop and not nearly as many scapes as ususal, but now that we've begun to get some rains, I've got dl's putting up rebloom scapes that have never done so previously. One think I do that may or may not promote rebloom is to cut off the old scapes when all the blooms have finished, and also I don't allow seed pods to form on dl's that I haven't purposely hybridized. I hope this answers some of your questions, and again, welcome. Jan

Weird - I responded to RH yesterday, saw the response, and it's gone! Let's try this again, LOL. Spartan is lovely - great pic! I don't think it's a match for mine, as I don't remember yellow or orange on the hafts and shoulders, and no white below the beards. But I'll keep it in mind, and have another look when mine blooms again. Thanks! Iris Gal, one of these years I'll get around to organizing my photos - I still have pics from the 2003 National I need to organize. Yikes. I have a good excuse, though - since then, we've moved twice (well, 3 times if you count a temporary apartment) - from VA to OH (2004) to IL (2006). For DH's job. I told him if I have to move my irises again, I might be forced to shoot him! I am pretty excited about this red NOID - obviously, it's not RED, but as red irises go, this one is pretty nice, and it seems to grow well, too. Any bearded iris that can survive the conditions down by the creek for a few years is a keeper! (I planted some JIs down there last summer and they croaked!) And a red to boot? Amazing - my other reds don't grow that well. Am I going to go into business? Well, maybe, someday. It'd be fun to make this addiction pay for itself, that's for sure! For now, I'll trade or give away the extras, and have thought of selling some in a garage sale or at the local farmer's market. Sadly, the number used to be over 500, but I lost more in the moves than I've added. But that number will go back up, I'm sure! Mostly I have a lot because I'm an addict - belong to AIS, HIPS and TBIS (need to join the other sections, too) and just finished the last of my apprentice judge's requirements last month, so next year I'll be an accredited judge. And as a judge, one is "required" to grow new cultivars for evaluation. Oh, darn. ;-) Diana

Thanks Altorama! :-) Kim might know if "May Queen" is the same as "Edmond Proust"..... This is interesting, under May Queen on HMF http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.35316.0 "See References to track the mixup about the breeder of this rose. Brent Dickerson's The Old Rose Adventurer debunks the existence of a 'May Queen' bred by W.A. Manda. The 1898 catalog of Conard & Jones accurately describes 'May Queen' as bred by Dr. W. Van Fleet.The American Rose Annual in 1916 lists it among Dr. Van Fleet's roses, while no such rose is listed for W. A. Manda. However, by Modern Roses V in 1958, 'May Queen' was attributed to Manda, an error subsequently perpetuated and corrected in Modern Roses 12 in 2007. The September 2007 issue of The New Zealand Heritage Rose Journal reports how New Zealand rosarians compared the rose in commerce there as May Queen to Edmond Proust in Sangerhausen and la Roseraie de l'Häy. It appears the rose called May Queen in New Zealand is actually Edmond Proust."

Thank you Anna-Lyssa and Carol for reassuring me that I made a good decision choosing Lamarque. Ann-Lyssa, Carol was right about your pictures they say it all! I am even more excited now than I was before. I ordered two Lamarque where they will be placed on separate ends of a huge arbor at the end of my porch and a Sombreuil will be placed at the back of the arbor on the opposite side. My hope is that the Lamarque will meet in the middle and completely cover that end of the arbor with Sombreuil taking care of the back end. Thank you ladies for your encouragement and beautiful photos!