JUAVA JELLY is a sweetheart...

But I'm partial to CITRIX, I bought it this year and I loved the blooms. Pure sunshine in my heart!

How Lovely You Are is gorgeous! I'm so glad I got Apache War Dance. I almost didn't recognize it because mine is blooming redder and yours is more orange.

Lovely! Nothing like having a decent bloom going on. If I could get a few to rebloom like South Seas has, it would be great!

I don't know how they would do for you, but Final Touch and delayed Arrival bot started very late, and are still blooming very well along with my rebloomers. I need to move some around, but the stupid wrist is a problem and I just counted up and I have bought a "few" more than I realized, so I have got to remove a little grass...DH will die. Tough.
kay

nymomma- As its just the FFO, the rest may change color some. Plus mine was bare root only planted this spring. Yours bought potted is sure to be more settled than mine.

kay - But who knows if they would bloom late here. Grass is overrated anyway but you have to be careful and no digging until you heal.

Wow, Rita...that driveway bed is most impressive. You deserve a lot of credit for having a vision/idea and making it happen.

Think about the AHS National in 2012 as it will be in Ohio...There will be a lot of northern bred daylilies on display, I'm sure...

I think all of my lates have now begun to bloom, including Sandra Elizabeth and After AWhile Crocodile... That's a good idea, too, about putting the lates together....one day, I may have to try that (too much work now to try to move them all around!)...as it would make for a better show than one or two here and there...

Rita,

You still have some very nice blooms going on! Been off line for a week due to high temps requiring watering for hours every day, but am trying to catch up and see what has been going on in the gardens that are still blooming.

SELLSATION FRIENDSHIP is wonderful, and CITRIX is a must have! CONDILLA is beautiful as well, and thanks to your pics amongst others here last year, I added it last fall. It is in a bed that had lots of slug damage this spring, so will probably have to wait until next year to see it bloom, but I can't wait.

Looks like your Olallie additions are doing what they are supposed to for you, and they are very pretty. My well established OLALLIE GOLD RIM just started blooming this week, and looks like it has a long run ahead of it. Late bloomers are great!

Julie

Wow! You really have a lot of blooms there. Your gardens look very impressive and your norther rebloomers have really paid off big. I was excited to have 5 blooms in my new "late bed." Most of the other beds were just full of naked scapes.

Debra

See, I think visiting northern mecca and Ohio would be more interesting to me than to go to Florida and see the daylilies down there. Not that I would not enjoy seeing those Florida daylilies, its just that I already know that they are not for me and my vision of my garden. Too bad that I DIDN'T have that vision until I had filled up the daylily plateau in the backyard with deep south and warm western hybridized daylilies that I only realized later would not rebloom and often have low budcounts. Of course, there are always exceptions.

The driveway bed picture is only that one section that I have gotten nearly perfect. I do have one lovely large clump in there of Mike Derrows fantastic PRELUDE TO PANOPLY which, while is a fabulous daylily, blooms too early for that grouping.

Really nice. I do like that driveway bed of the late bloomers. Of course Lime Frost and Bold Tiger look great together. That was clever the way you tied your lilies to the fence in the driveway bed, sure is better than staking.
Cindy

Debra- I have sections of the garden with naked scapes too or I would if I had not cut the scapes back. The plateau has one corner in full bloom which is big groupings of China Bride, which really blooms for a long time for me, and Susan Weber, which starts late and also goes for a long time. Other than that there's a clump of something red up there in full bloom and thats it. I will have to check on the red one and see where it should move it as nothing that was in those back two rows is staying there.

I don't know if you remember but two winters ago I was asking about the best way to set up lates in the garden. You know, do a late bed or mix them up. I finially did alittle of each but that bed in back of the garage is all late bloomers. Most just started and two or three are not even close to bloom yet. Then there also the three rows of hibbard lates that end the Snapgragon garden which lok good but gioven time, I fell will look really great. Most were small fans last year and need time.

Beautiful pics again. Sellstation Friendship really caught my eye.

I'll have to get some more info for the AHS 2012. That would be something to see. Maybe one of these years I won't be so busy when they have the Northern Mecca and I'll make it to that also.

I did make it out to Ashwood Gardens, Richard Norris' place. It is amazing. His seedling beds are out of this world. I didn't buy anything as his are one's I have to save for and he doesn't sell his seedlings.

After speaking with Richard, I definately look at my dl's differently. I think everyone who plans on Hybridizing should visit a hybridizer in their area. It really was a great learning experience and Richard was very nice.

So Rita save some money cause Richard has a very nice sculpted yellow, with instant rebloom and foliage that doesn't get nasty after it blooms, that he plans on introducing next spring. He didn't have a name or price yet but it is amazing.

Andrea

Cindy - I had planned to tie them to the fence if I needed too so that I would not have to have stakes messing up the look of my garden. I think they all leaned so much because the nieghbors hedges were growing over my side over the top of the fence. When I realised that I cut them back so that they ended on his side of the fence, not hanging over mine.

Julie- I hope the heat out your way ends soon. I always though it was fairly COOL in the summer in the Pacific Northwest.

CONDILLA is a trooper, I remember it was about the latest blooming in my garden last year. It started pretty much average, it just kept going forever. I love the looks of its blooms and I rarely love doubles.

Hey, glad to hear your OLALLIE GOLD RIM started blooming. I am truely pleased with the Olallie late bloomers I got last year, in fact I had definately decided to get MORE from Olallie this year. They are really late which I really like. I might get OLALLIE GOLD RIM this time around. I remember debating last year as to whether I should get it or not but didn't have to many spaces so passed on it. I do have room to add a front row in the Olallie section back there and I have decided to add more in that section I am doing called daylily row. You missed that post while you were absent here, I was going on about all the moving projects (complete with pictures) going on here.

Andrea- There is a world of difference between daylilies hybridized in the deep south and warm west and those being introduced by more northern hybriders. Rebloom for us here is only one of the differences. It usually means great plant habit under those pretty faces. I never knew what branching actually looked like, at least not in person, until I started getting northern intros.

I don't even want to think of more 2010 intros because I know I will see ones that I want!

WOW!!! Rita, you have some more beauties blooming.That JUAVA JELLY is a gorgeous bloom,Don't like its name, b ut that bloom is gorgeous.LIME FROST IS GORGEOUS, TOO. and just love that APACHE WAR DANCE, but my favorite one in this bunch is HOW LOVELY YOU ARE.wow,it looks a lot like BEAUTIFUL EDGINGS which I think is just beautiful.Been having my eye on that one a long time.

Jean

Nice job Rita. Looks like its all pulling together the way you want it. Keep us posted on your lates and very lates. I'd like to hear your experiences with them.

Julia

Love the diamond dusting on Paul Owen seedling 495! That is my favorite of the bunch.

Your late blooming bed is so nice. I am really watching mine this year to see what is blooming late. I have learned so much this year and have found that you really can't go by what the hybridizer's bloom season says.

Rita, you are so right about CONDILLA. This was a NOID in my garden until this year and it has been blooming for six weeks now under my old oak tree. Condilla is not my favorite color, but it sure does put on a good show.

Vickie

I love the driveway bed, and of course everything else. Putting the Ls and VLs together really works as it presents another 'peak' bloom area. It's a beautiful and effective plan that you have implemented. Now, I am looking at setting up early, mid and late season beds in the yard so that there is a way to look at peak bloom period at different times.

Bj

Vickie- Don't plan to buy deep south hybridized daylilies and have then bloom late here. They usually bloom midseason when brought up north. But there are exceptions.

As Julie C has suggested in other threads, look into some of the Margo Reed and Jime Murphy intros instead of the deep south ones. They have lots of lates and some VLs. Now, I do NOT like spiders but even I was able to find some UFOs and just others more to my taste there. For instance, I just love RED HILL and its its only a very open form, not even a UFO. Blooms late. RED HILL is in that driveway bed section picture. JIM Murphys LAST CHANCE FOR ROMANCE is in the late blooming bed in back of the garage and not even close to blooming yet. Registered as VL.

CONDILLA is one of those oldies but goodies that I would never be without.

Bj- The section in back of the garage is done with late and very late bloomers. That driveway section in the picture above is a combination of late bloomers and midseason northern hybridized daylilies that have a long bloomtime. That means while they start off at the normal time, they end late as they have lots of buds that don't open all at once. They also have lots of scapes and that makes for lots of flowers.

A good example is Melanie Masons MABOU in the front row there. This is one of those daylilies that just seems to bloom forever.

My hope last year was to have peak bloom here in July as normal and then anothyer peak bloom time after that with the lates and very lates. I had hoped for peak in August but everythings too new to know when that might be.