Congratulations on your new baby! Nothing like the music of a houseful of kids giggling and playing! I have 5 also. Well I just started collecting this year, I was having problems with my on again/off again lantana that I decided I was removing most of it and replacing with a different perennial. Well as you can guess the rest is history...lol Oh my goodness daylilies sure are addicting (however that's what I say about whatever "new" plant I'm into that year.) lol Anyway here goes... Absolute Treasure All Fired Up Awesome Blossom Atlanta Irish Heart Apricot Jade Autumn Jewels (Thanks Sue G.!) Alabama Jubilee Asymmetry (Thanks Sue G.) American Doll Autumn Wood Amethyst Art Black Eyed Stella Big Kiss Blueberry Candy Beautiful Edgings Bibbity Bobbity Boo Barbara Mitchell Baron Frederick Bookmark Bombay Bliss (Thanks Sue G.) Blueberry Baroque (Thanks Sue G.) Bela Lugosi Bright Sunset Black Fathom Depths Brave World Beautiful Daydream Curly Pink Ribbons Cosmopolitan Crimson Pirate Custard Candy Carolina Ruffles (Thanks Sue G.) Citrix Cerulean Warbler Cape Coral Choral Fantasy Cosmic Odyssey (has a scape!) Coming Up Roses Carol Todd Calming Effect Dream Legacy Dragon King Desperado Love Ezekiel El Desperado Ebony Pools Eternal Warrior Elegant Candy English Cameo Egyptian Pearl Fiesta Fling Fuschia Four Fragrant Treasure Flore Peno Fires Of Fuji Fiji Fairy Firecracker Fire King Forever Lovely Gordon Biggs God Save The Queen Grandma's Smile Garden Goddess Gingham Maid Groovy Chic Highland Lord Hawaiian Swirls Happy Returns Having Fun Harbor Mist Hidden Rainbow Hyperion Heavenly Mansions Hot Lava Heavens Declaring How Beautiful Heaven Must Be Ida's Magic Irish Envy Ice Carnival Island Hospitality Inherited Wealth Indian Giver Just So Jolyene Nichols J.T. Davis King Creole Kindly Light Kathleen Salter Lacy Doily Little Business Little Wart Lavender Stardust Long Stocking Lavender Arrowhead Light Motiff Lake Norman Sunset Lime Frost Little Red Warbler Laura Harwood (Thanks Shirley S.) Lava Flow Lullaby Baby Ledgewood's Firecracker Majestic Pink Marked By Lydia Malaysian Monarch Malaysian Marketplace Mystical Rainbow Ming Toy Merry Moppet Magnificent Rainbow Moonlit Caress Mandalay Bay Music (Thanks Sue G.) Moonlit Masquerade Mardi Gras Parade Mildred Mitchell Mexican Magic Miami Mood Memories Remain Magic Lace Mini Pearl Mississippi Blues Monkey Giggles Navajo Princess Neon Rainbow Night Beacon New Paradigm Outrageous Fortune Omumuki Petite Ballet Pumpkin Kid Pineapple Moon Prickled Petals Purple Maze Plum Line Pleasant Edging Promised Day Rainbow Candy Roses & Gold Rocket City Route 66 Rock Solid South Seas Sabine Bauer Siloam Double Classic Silent Thunder Stenciled Impressions Suzie Wong Shimmering Elegance Sugar Mountain (Thanks Sue G.) Sparks Cool Mountain Mist (Thanks Sue G.) Spiritual Corridor Sunday Gloves Spellbinder Siloam Ury Winniford Strutter's Ball Screen Pattern Sense Of Wonder Secret Agent Spacecoast Picotee Prince (Thanks Sue G.) Sculptured Wax Small World Looney Tunes Song In My Heart Spanish Glow Sensory Perception Thanks A Bunch Two Part Harmony Two To Tango Trahylta Tuscawilla Tigress Thunder & Blazes Tropical Experience Thisby Upper Crust Society Violet Osborn Variegated Kwanso Vino Di Notte Wild Wookie Wonder Of It All (Thanks Sue G.) Wild Horses (Thanks Sue G.) Wild & Wonderful Yasmin And a few more I'm bidding on also... hopefully I win them. Rena'

Well I had a lot of favorites until I saw that clump of Mary's Baby, and it just blows all the others out of the water. Spectacular! I can see I need to add that one, even though the bloom size is smaller than I like. Kingdom Without End is my second favorite. Evermore Greatful looks like a good performer for you, and White Eyes Pink Dragon seems to hold up well in the heat. Debra

I quite like Thomas Tew. Its first year, it was winter damaged, but has grown well since then. Heavenly Hidden Treasure is a nice one, though the picture it takes sometimes surpasses reality. Rosie with a Ring is smaller than I like, though it is still relatively new. As for Stenciled Infusion, it has added one fan in three years, has low bud count, and is more like 5 rather than six inches. Laura recently posted a clump of hers. She has gotten multiplication, but I see that hers also has low bud count. SI will get one more year here; I have little patience with cultivars that don't clump or have low bud count. Gavin Petit shows well in the garden, though it has a somewhat sprawling plant habit. I am wondering how progeny Mayan Warrior grows; its color is certainly fetching. (Don't think that Nan reads later posts.) Warmer Climes is upfacing like parent Clarity of Vision. Too soon to evaluate further. Point of Divergence has an eye that contrasts nicely with the cream segments. Lonesome Jaguar has done well here, though could stand a few inches in height. Fabulous Black Pearl throws nice blooms, but bud count and vigor are limited. Is above the foliage. Here is Vertical Horizon. Here are Ruby Lipstick and Light of the World. Sam Abell. Striking, though not the height I saw it at Ashwood. Remembered Kisses. One of the best in this color range. Chico Tim --wonderful this past year. Thanks to Nan for recommending this one.

I believe the heat has a lot to do with it , maybe in combination with less rain, but my season is rapidly winding down at the end of June. Last year, I actually still had blooms all the way into December (unprecedented I might add). This year the explosion began early and lasted for a couple of weeks. Since I remove blooms each day, I know the height was 770 blooms and yesterday it was 238. Just as well, I have some changes to put into effect in my garden (as always...it is never finished) I particularly like Night Flight, Ruby Storm, Quasar Cutie, and Here Lies Butch (like the name too). kay