Newbie, Yes he is one good hubby most of the time, but, there are those days when his 'engineer brain" takes over and that can try even the patience of a Saint. BUT after 34 years, as of Monday, one just rolls with it. The candylily is actually more of an iris and not a true lily. They start to bloom in the second year and multiply in fans very quickly. OK DAWIFF, that's it, there is something in the air out there in Seattle. We WS some salpiglossis Chocolate royale a couple of years ago and your words where "I don't really like it, don't want them next year." Now she says "chocolate royale this year that I just love." And guess what? I got some old seeds of them saved from the year we sowed them. Seed pods for them are right where the flower was, but it takes quite a while for them to form and then ripen. give them time and they will get there for you. My seeds where from Kmart, martha stuart brand. She seems to be the only one that puts them out on the shelves in packages to buy and K-mart sells the commercial seeds for 40% off the package price. I only have a couple of plants though. Germinated beautifully and planted out but that's as far as they made it. Watched the groundhog gourge on them, and what was left went down the throat of the chipmunk except for a couple of them. Will save some seeds for you of these and whatever else blooms and will send you the chocolate royale too. Nancy, Mine are candylily and some of the blackberry lily look almost the same, but there are some blackberry lily that TM seeds sells that are supposed to be pastel colors of pink, lavender and yellow. I sowed them this year and expect them to bloom next year. The first year my candy lily bloomed it was a bit of display of bloom, about 10 flowers and the one fan had become 3 fans. From the next year on, they just bloomed and bloomed and multiplied in fans to now I have 14 fans and plan to separate them in the fall. Fran

The companions are really pretty.I like them.I love TOSS OF THE DICE.its gorgeous, but mine has had a hard time opening all the way.It gets "Almost" but, not quite.I have had from 2 to 4 blooms every day for a month on it,and every bloom has not quite gotten to fully open.I love it anyway. WILD CHERRY ROUNDUP is a pretty one, too.Did your CLOWN'S PARADE finally take a rest? its a gorgeous one, too. Jean

For a change this year we had a very wet spring through mid summer then it all stopped. The ones in the front yard are in sandy loam but I keep them watered. Back in the spring I had a lot of aphids and some of the leaves were deformed and they bloomed very late where other peoples daylilies were blooming. I caved in a gave them a shot of fertilizer that has something it to keep aphids off after that they bloomed. Where I try to be organic the aphids just would not leave. In the back yard the soil is clay but I've added compost, this bed had not had any daylilies in it till this year and one's I'd gotten from a local swap only one tiny fan bloomed twice this summer. Some of the other daylilies I got in the trade have not bloomed but the fans are really getting big and healthy looking so next year I hope to see what they are cause the person that gave them to me had no name on them. I'm blaming some of the lack of blooms on very little sun in the spring up into July it was cloudy most days or partly cloudy and by the time the sun came out it was past the bed where the daylilies are. I've never had the lack of blooms before like I have this year and some are new but still my stella O'dor has been in the bed for four years and it looks like it's getting smaller instead of larger, not spreading. The Banana daylilies I have spread like wildfire but little bloom this year. It's only their second year but I'm wondering if they need to be thinned out? Barb

Same here with Immortality. This is my second year with it. Last year was the first full season, so they were still young. I was sceptical that it was some garden catalog hype, and that I'd get maybe a few half hearted small blooms if anything, but it's going full bore. I'm impressed. What other varieties are reliable rebloomers?