WOOOOO HOOOOOOO Rita!!!!!!! Goody goody!!!! That means we get to see more pics........right? please, please.

Lrae

You have already seen pics of everything on the pateau but it just means there will be more blooms.

Well,Rita,no law about not seeing these blooms again,so more pictures,Please??You take such wonderful beautiful pictures,and we never get tired of seeing your blooms.

Jean

Thank you Jean! I love to take pictures of my daylilies so you know I will just keep right on posting.

Today I found a rebloom scape on Brian Culvers TIKAL MAID. It's listed as one of those instant rebloomers were the rebloom comes out of a currently blooming fan. Sure enough, that is exactly whats happening. So the original scape is just about done but I will be continueing to have flowers.

I just love this rebloom concept!!!!

By now I have poosted a rebloom picture of WISEST OF WIZARDS so obviously that one had a rebloom scape too and I just had not seen it the other day.

I found a rebloom scape on STRAWBERRY CANDY and on BRIAN CULVERS DIAMOND EXECUTIVE. Hurray!

Sure does help to get some of those northern bred daylilies that are listed as rebloomers. I found a rebloom scape coming up on Karrol Emmerich's ENDURING FREEDOM today while out peering at my daylilies. Now, this is a newly planted this spring daylily that already bloomed for me this year. Can't beat that!

You know that I am out there twice a day looking for rebloom scapes up on that daylily plateau. Its probably too early for the regular rebloom type, the bloom then rest then rebloom, but I am just obsessed with it. Just like I was obsessed with whether my evergreens would make it thru the winter all this past winter. Well, they all did. Now I know I just have to wait to see about the rebloom but I never have been one for much patience.

We had rain overnight (quite abit of it) again last night. Same as we did afew nights ago. I am hoping the rain makes the daylilies rebloom. Out there peering at them again this morning but of course nothing yet new going on at the plateau. I did find a rebloom scape on another of my Karrol Emmerich daylilies, one of the late bloomers in the back garden.

I know that many of you have said they had rebloom where they normally don't or more rebloom than than normal. So I am hoping that this will be a great year for rebloom and for rebloom here in my garden especially.

Yesrterday I wrote a long post to the AHS e-mail robin about my Dalily Madness and one of the things I was talking about was that I am now going for August bloomers to take away the dead spot between regular bloom time in July and when ever rebloom comes.

One of our local club members, also a member of the robin, wrote me back privately and told me that if I do not have rebloom scapes showing by now then thats it, I will not be getting them. He grows about 800 different daylilies, all fancy southern flowers and many of the newest and fanciest. He said he had had his rebloom already and it was about done too.

Now that would go with some I had like PRETTY GAUDY and WISEST OF WIZARDS which rebloomed really quickly, instant rebloom. But if a daylily needs to rest before sending up rebloom scapes, there has not been that much time passed between end of bloom here. So I find this very confusing. I guess I want the rebloom so badly that I just will not accept no rebloom until its too late in the year :-((

Plus I have not even had rebloom yet on most of my instant rebloomers. They are new this year and did bloom so they might need to settle in or they might bloom later. I also have lots of rebloomers from Karoll Emmerich and Don Herr this spring. One from Karol is reblooming so far. I don't believe this means that the others will not. Or possibly they might not this first year.

This rebloom thing is so confusing and of course I am obsessed with it and obsessed with my daylilies. So what else is new?

There is an old saying that really does pertain.....
First year sleep
Second Year Creep
Third year Leap

A daylily like any other plant needs to start growing..setting root
Feed itself...and store energy for growth
This won't happen if they don't get about 3 years to establish themselves. You also might not see any re-bloom or true scape height, bud count or even true blooms till they get established. Even moving them with good root mass and soil incased root balls, will still set them back some. I think if you want to really get to see the "Real" plant, patience is a must. Blooms won't open fully for many reasons...as you know be it location, moisture or lack of, hours of sun, soil temp...well you get the idea you can go on and on about the things that effect the plant. You can get some "Southern re-bloom up here in the North"...but yes ideal conditions help as does the care the plants are given.
The key is let them get settled in and established....then see what the real deal is....:) Ain't nuttin wrong with a good Daylily obsession....least not in my book Rita....Most imortant thing is to set back and enjoy them for the amazing things they do....:)
Give them some time Rita.....:)

Rick

I know my daylily plants are all relatively new so I am trying to have patience. And I do know that even an easy move for the plant with rootball intact with lots of soil like I am doing now on some of my daylilies still involves stress for the plant.

Unfortunately I am a person that always has something to move because I don't get it all right the first time. Can't tell you how many roses I have moved, mostly In the spring but just moved some afew days ago.

Walking around today I see a first scape coming up on Jim Murphy's LAST CHANCE FOR ROMANCE which is listed as late or very late, right now I can't remember which.

Then two new rebloom scapes coming up. One on Karol Emmerich's fabulous MAN OF SORROWS and one on another of my Emmerich intros. I see I need more of them. They obviously really want to rebloom, being new plants just put in this spring.

Traditionally August on Long Island is hot and humid. At least hot! This year and last year August has been cool. I don't know how much of a difference it makes but I do remember this spring when it was time for daylily scapes to show up and there was nothing spowing in the garden. Then we got that blasted hot, hot heat wave and within days scapes just poped up all over the place.

Now I keep looking and looking hoping to see rebloom scapes on the evergreens but so far nothing. The longer it goes with nothing, maybe the worst my chances are of getting any rebloom.

Rita, you sound just like me.I am outside a couple times a day looking for some rebloom scapes, too. So far,I only see some rebloom scapes on my Buttered Popcorn,It just finished up with one rebloom scape,and now it has 3 more scapes coming.I use to do that with Roses,but now the roses is pushed to the back burner.I have gotten obcessed with daylilies andlove them blooms.

Jean

Hi Rita, is there any sign of rebloom on Belle of Ashwood? My division is definitely too small to be reblooming but I was wondering if I could be hopeful for next year. So far there are no rebloom scapes on Faithful and True. That is my only established northern rebloomer.

Edward - I have that 3 instant rebloom collection from Richard of BELLE OF ASHWOOD, NO BLUE OXFORDS and CLARITY OF VISION. NO sign of rebloom on any of them.

I also have instant rebloomers from Brian Culver. Except for one scape on TIKAL MAID which was only one fan, I have no rebloom on any of them either. And TIKAL MAID had plently of scapes from plenty of fans. Besides that I have plenty of rebloomers (non instant from Brian), nothing yet on rebloom.

I have plenty of rebloomers from Don Herr, nothing yet on rebloom.

I had a rebloom scape on SUMMER RE-RUN from Melanie Mason. Other than that ALL my rebloom on new stuff was on Karol Emmerich intros.

I don't consider the fact that these other northern rebloomers have not rebloomed a bad thing. New plants planted this year and they did bloom. I feel that they need time to get established and will rebloom for me next year. However, the fact that the ones from Karol are reblooming is a big plus and I see that hers, at least in my garden, have the strongest tendency to rebloom. Therefore I will be ordering heavily from Karol again for next spring.

Jean- Good for you having reblom on BUTTERED POPCORN. Plus I know exactly what you mean about the roses. Roses are 2nd to daylilies in my garden too!

I did manage to find a rebloom scape coming up on INNER VISION when I was fussing around up in the daylily plateau today. So maybe its not too late and maybe those rebloom scapes are still coming.

Oh Rita,I sure hope you will have lots of reblooms,so we can have more photos to drool over.

Jean