very nice. love this last one. Self Determination, its a beauty.Towel of Babel is a very pretty one, too.

Nice photo of the fawn! Have the deer been nipping your daylilies yet? I love the bed shot with the blue, orange, purples and red. Winter Treasure looks so pristine. Mine didn't do as well this year as in the past. Your Coyote Moon clump looks fantastic. I used to grow that one but made a decision at one point to move out the smaller flowered cultivars in favor of larger blooms. It was always a terrific rebloomer here.

Debra

Thanks, Jean and Debra! Yeah, I thought the fawn photo turned out pretty good, considering I took it through the doorwall and zoomed. The deer have been eating some flowers and buds. Most of my daylilies that are planted in the ground are inside of a wildlife netting perimeter (and others are in pots on my deck), but I noticed a few days ago that they got to one outside of the perimeter - munched most of the blooms and buds off one and last night they took just a few blooms off of the other - I'm thinking last night was the fawn, just trying/tasting them. I have been using milorganite and also periodically spraying the daylilies outside of the perimeter - I better spray again tonight and put out more milorganite and hope it helps. I also have a 'predator guard' on one side of the outside of the bed and the daylilies in front of that have not been eaten. Or not yet anyway!

What is a wildlife netting perimeter? Can you show us a photo? Sparkling picture of Winter Treasure!

It's just a 'fence' put up surrounding my daylilies, it and the deck surround them. It's stakes and wildlife netting. Here is a picture I just took, the first stake is right behind the pot of petunias. Don't laugh! :o) It's not exactly pretty, but it has been effective so far. My husband and I put it up a 2-3 years ago. The deer have not busted through yet.

You can see the netting and/or stakes in some of the pictures I've posted previously.

I agree, your garden photos are just wonderful, like a magazine. You really got a nice pic of the fawn, I don't think I've ever seen a fawn close up. We have deer close by, but they have never bothered my plants. Up until the last couple of years we had dogs & I thought that was why the deer stayed away. Apparently not. Better forage elsewhere, thankfully, but I do enjoy watching them when they go into the field next door. Winter treasure is really pretty, reminds me a bit of a seedling I have. Self Determination is really nice too, you know how I love that look.

I would really be torn if Bambi showed up in my yard. Bad enough I've got my garden cat Yardley getting rid of Thumper. Your netting is invisible in your pictures.... Love your landscaping. So many flowers competing for attention.... I was interested to see Ashwood Still Night. That dark purple was highly recommended to me by a daylily grower up north. How does it grow for you?...............Maryl

I love your garden shots, so pretty! My favorite today is your clump of Winter Treasure, all perfect blooms.

Sherry

Thank you Debra, Nancy, Nancy, Maryl and Sherry. Regarding the deer, we have two dogs, but they are only outside when I am and they go out on tie outs. There are way too many critters around they might chase after, plus there are coyotes around and I sure wouldn't want anything to happen to my pups. So, the deer are accustomed to the dogs being out and near the house, but it doesn't keep the deer away when the dogs aren't out there. There used to be a lot more deer, but since the coyotes have been in the area for the past couple of years, there don't seem to be as many deer.

Maryl, Ashwood Still Night grows well here... it's supposed to be a rebloomer, but I don't think it has rebloomed for me. It is a nice dark purple. I think I've had it since 2012, it is a pretty big clump now and needs to be divided. The flowers are one of the purples that can take on a grayish/frosted look on cold mornings. The flowers seem to hold up well in the heat and hold their color pretty well here, but I don't think we get as much heat or for as long as you do. Here is a pic from yesterday of one of the scapes on the outside of the clump.

Wow! That is one pretty scape! We definitely want to see bloom pictures on that one.

Debra