Your a lucky ducky Jan. I have to many newbies to see any blooms but hope to next year. I got ones that start very early to late so I'd have them for a long time. Most of my long time daylilies have seen the last of their blooms for the year...... they didn't do as well this year due to to much rain and not enough sunshine. So it can go both ways not enough rain or to much :/ but is wasn't just daylilies that suffered roses lost leaves, some plants came up very late in the year. Now we're back to no rain for over a month but promise of rain this weekend YEAH.

Want a real color trend breaker? Hydrangea macrophylla 'Wedding Gown' is it! This rebloomer starts as an amazing bright white lacecap with very double florets. So most people figure it is a pigmentless white and treat it that way. The sales ads do say that it has very nice fall leaf color. Boy do those words minimize one's expectations. Once the initial lacecap forms more florets of smaller size open centrally to make a flat mophead. Most people cut the flowers off at this stage to use in long lasting table arrangements. The name alone gets them sent off to friend and family weddings. The flowers seem to last forever. However, finally in the late summer to fall the flowers become peppered with light pink to red blood like spots. I suspect that the majority of people cut them off now because the amazing pristine white color is now gone I got lazy and left mine on last year. The flower spots darken and fill in over time and the leaves begin developing an amazing fall color. The flowers eventually turn an even deep cranberry red color and hold their form. Thus, a pigmentless flower developed pigment over time, and a lot if it! At this stage the flowers dry well for dry flower arrangements (good Christmas color). Finally the florets invert in late fall as the leaves reach their peak fall color. I don't expect the red flower pigment to be shiftable towards a purplish or bluish black color. Mine was growing at a soil pH shifting blue hydrangea to pink. Anyone try growing 'Wedding Gown' on very acidic soil or with Alumminum Sulphate addition? Being a white it might not yet have been tried. Since current marketing materials focus only on the Wedding White lacecap aspects, do not be surprized if you see it re-trade marked then also sold as 'WhiteFire' or 'Drama Queen' (favorite ideas) 'Ice & Cranberry', 'Iced Fire', 'Blood in Ice', 'Ice Flare' or some other name.

OMAR ! Wish you were coming to the swap, but I do have multiple white phil violets for ya !! Katherine.... keep those obedient plants and you'll have a whole huge crop of them later! They spread wonderfully! You can always put your questions on the forum for ID'ing plants, too....(I think there's one). But sometimes, especially if it's a Texas weed, it's probably most identifiable by other Texans! I have one plant in my garden that I can't ID. It looks like a dill or fennel, but I don't grow them so I don't know them. I had the same thing come up last year, but it didn't live. If it grew larger I might be able to figure it out, and welcome it, since butterflies like both. It was planted by a bird or a seed blew in on a wind, I don't know. But I like it. For now. :-)

I ordered one for a client last year but it came in with some damage. Surprised to not be able to find them ANYWHERE! We ended up getting a Karran farmsink instead. My installers commented on how beautiful it was...and the homeowner likes it too. Looking for pics now!