Still have a lot more! Tempt me even if its not daylily. Thanks, Erin

I can't help you with zone info since my area is so much colder, but thought I would respond anyway since you have only gotten one response so far. My three Bowles Golden grow in a wet area in the far right corner of my backyard on very heavy clay. The area is very wet, sometimes lying in water for weeks in spring/early summer, followed by drier conditions later in the season. I never supplement water in this part of the yard, so if summer is dry, the plants there go dry too. Never had much of a problem with the GBs, but my soil is very moisture retentive. The soil is alkaline, but this area because of the wet soil (rotting stuff) tends to be a bit more acidic than the rest of my gardens. My GBs grows with things like Itea, Clethra Hummingbird, Variegated red-twig dogwoods, and Japanese candelabra primrose. The area has no tree cover but the shrubs have grown tall enough over the years to provide about 1/2 day shade now to the GBs. The GBs provide season long color (after the early color punch of the primulas is only a memory). The three are planted in a wide triangle (not right next to each other) and can be seen well from the patio near the house. The GBs contrast beautifully with the green shrub foliage, and purely by serendipity, make a beautiful contrast with two large Physocarpus Diablos on a little rise just behind the "wet" garden. My three plants are five years old, and are now about two and a half feet tall and a bit narrower, maybe two feet wide. I have had to move one of them because of shrub growth. The plants stay in clumps which gets somewhat fuller each year. They were about 12-18 inches tall by 6-12 inches wide and a bit wispy by the end of the first season. Growth has been moderate, but they have basically held their own with the "thicketing" type shrubs used in this area. With your longer season and milder winters (perhaps better soil too) yours might grow quicker. Color impact was immediate (shrubs were small too when this area was planted). Color stays well all season, but of course they do get somewhat duller as the season progresses, however they do not green out. But remember our season is very short here, compared to yours, but we can have hot humid summers, it's just that our spring and falls only last a minute! These are beautiful, absolutely no care plants, other than a few chops of the old dead stuff with hedge sheers in spring.

I'd consider blue wheatgrass/magellan grass, Elymus magellanicus. Evergreen (everblue), good for rocky conditions, salt tolerant and will tolerate some wide variations in soil moisture conditions. Blue lyme or dune grass, Elymus arenarius, would work as well, but it's a lot more aggressive and can become rather weedy - depends on how tough your planting situation is. And it's also good to remember that drought tolerance is not immediate, even with plants that are reputed to be very DT - you may need to provide supplemental irrigation now and again the first summer. But in the PNW, that too is extremely variable...wouldn't have needed much this year!

I'd bring it indoors. Give it a sunny spot and keep it watered, including misting it once or twice a week, and it'll do just fine. Take it back out after last frost.