Brad: Maui Sunrise will be put to the test tomorrow when we go back to 90 degree weather to see how it holds up, ie will it fade out. It is now in full sun from sunrise to sunset.

The purple flower is lavender behind Blue Eyed Butterfly. I also use Salvia Victoria Blue which is a deep blue and still a small plant just peeking behind Open Door. I don't have a good eye, I just plant and hope for the best.

Japanese Beetles are here and I caught quite a few on my Hibiscus (Rose Of Sharon) and they are in the Beetle bags as well. Yuck.

Maui Sunrise is my favorite too. Chances are it would fade in my 100 degree heat, but it's absolutely a knockout in your picture. I like all the background plants as well........... Salvia Victoria used to be a staple when I started gardening many decades ago, but became subject to the southern pink moth larvae which eat all the buds. Nurseries continued to sell it year after year, until the moth became so invasive that they couldn't even keep their young plants free of it long enough to sell it on to the uninformed. It's a shame, because it was such a great plant for hot season gardeners and looks gorgeous in your garden. Knock on wood, no JB's in my garden- yet. They are close I hear. Didn't know they ate Rose of Sharon's.....Maryl

My favorite photo is Blue Eyed Butterfly with the rudbeckia. I especially like the chocolate eyed rudbeckia. I didn't get any like that this year with my self-sown ones. I may have to buy one to get those going again. I wish Maui Sunrise looked like that here. It always blooms early in my garden and is a light orange.

Debra

I have had Lavender Cream Cascades for three years, and it basically does nothing. A few blooms. I think you said in a recent year that you were considering deleting it. Do you think it worth keeping? Your companion plants are a nice background. I like Pattern Evolution, which seems to have many buds. I also have Boss Lady, but it is rather sparsely budded, and I am not sure I like it. It is from Webster's Pink Wonder, and I do like it better than WPW.

It is obviously THE Boss Lady :-)

If you like Webster's Pink Wonder, you will love Pretty Desirable - bigger flowers and more of them.

Maui Sunrise ad Boss Lady are my favorites today. I, too, like the other plants with them that you have.

kay

Such nice photos, I really enjoy seeing the daylilies with the other varieties of flowers. I do a bit of that in my gardens, gives the eye a rest from the daylilies.

Sherry

Maryl: The hibiscus is budded but not open yet. They ruin the blooms, as they did last year, so hopefully putting the bags out now, will entice them to go to the lure. Caught quite a few in the bags yesterday.

Debra: Too bad your Maui Sunrise does not deepen like mine. Today is going to be hot again so we shall see what the color is by the end of the day. I never bought, as far as I can recall, those chocolate eyed rudbeckia. Surprised me this year when they opened with that color.

mantis: I don't recall saying I planned to get rid of Lavender Cream Cascades but I am moving it to the back smaller garden space which I was suppose to do last year but ran out of time for transplanting. I'm surprised that Boss Lady doesn't give you more buds. I like that the openings are well placed and not bunched up so they fully open. Pattern Evolution has consistently been well scaped and budded. I've had it a few years now.

Dick: I have Pretty Desirable but not impressed with it this year. I got it in a trade. The petals and sepals when opening are curling during our cooler temps days. Maybe on warmer days it would open better. We shall see.

Many of the daylilies are not bothered by cool mornings while others take a few hours to open fully and by then the sun is higher and harder to photograph. Another reason I Iike to do a mix bed.

mantis: Some of Boss Lady branching and buds.

Julia

Lovely collection of blooms. Pattern Evolution and Lavender Cream Cascades catch my eye. I enjoy seeing photos of daylilies with companion plants. Very pretty!

Lori