I actually planted several cosmos over the last week. When do you think they will come up? Any other suggestions? :)

This is a great thread and it is one I have been following earnestly since it began. Here is what is still blooming in my garden as of August 13, in no particular order: Lycoris chinensis Patrinia scabiosifolia Verbena bonariensis Echinacea 'PowWow Wild Berry' Calamintha nepetoides Allium 'Millenium' Allium 'Summer Beauty' Allium nutans 'Pam Harper' Agastache 'Blue Blazes' Agastache 'Blue Fortune' Agastache 'Golden Jubilee' Agastache 'Purple Haze' Hibiscus 'Summer Storm' Hibiscus 'Plum Crazy' Lilium speciosum album Lilium speciosum rubrum Phlox 'David' Phlox 'Old Cellarhole' Phlox 'Jeana' Phlox 'Caspian' Phlox 'Peppermint Twist' Phlox 'Mile High Pink' Helenium 'Mardi Gras' Geranium 'Rozanne' Geranium wlassovianum Rosa 'Quietness' Rosa 'Jude the Obscure' Rosa 'Rose de Rescht' Silphium perfoliatum Gladiolus 'Carolina Primrose' Gladiolus 'Bolivian Peach' Gladiolus 'Boone' Thalictrum 'Splendide' Thalictrum 'Hewitt's Double' Perovskia 'Blue Spires' Eupatorium 'Little Red' Nepeta 'Joanna Reed' Geranium 'A.T. Johnson' Knautia macedonica Solidago 'Little Lemon' Salvia 'Black and Blue' Geranium 'Blue Sunrise' Scabiosa ochroleuca Angelica gigas I have included plants in the above list whether they are in full bloom or have just a smattering of blossoms. We finally have pleasant temperatures and rain in my neck of the woods, and I think I can hear my garden sighing in relief. Here is a list of plants I have that still have not bloomed and/or are currently forming buds: Various sedums Helianthus 'Lemon Queen' Solidago 'Fireworks' Various asters Various Korean mums Aconitum 'Barker's Variety' Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' Artemisia lactiflora 'Guizhou' Various colchicums Various autumn crocus Helianthus 'First Light' Salvia azurea 'Nekan' Allium 'Sugar Melt' Allium tuberosum Allium thunbergii 'Ozawa' Allium thunbergii 'White Form' Scilla autumnalis Lycoris squamigera For the past couple of weeks, I have been putting in as many late blooming hardy chrysanthemums and asters as I can find and afford. Without a doubt, gardening will become more challenging in coming years due to climate change. Included below is a photo of the stunning Lycoris chinensis:

Thanks Twix&Dud....It's nice to know folks appreciate the pic's...:) I took a nice vacation to the beautiful state of New Hampshire...spent a few weeks in the Great North Woods....looking for Moose..It was a blast. Thanks so much Jan....Maybe they will be less stressed next season....us too...LOL LOL..;) Thank Ya Jen...It;s nice to still have a little beauty and colour...this time of year...:) Appreciate it Debra...:) I have to get Chartered Course....I have heard nothing but great things about it..:) Thanks Again Betsy...:) Thanks you Tom...I hope to have a few more bloom yet...they made it through a crazy growing season....again...LOL Hey Jane....All I do is place the pots close together...they are on slabs of concrete..allows for good steady drainage....and holds some warmth during the night hours. I have a small border of bricks to block the wind. I used to always use straw bales around the pots, all the way around (Wrapped with plastic twine) This keep them warm and the wind off them too. I use the leaves that I mulch up after the first hard frost and scatter them over the pots, allowing the spaces between the pots to fill in with the finely chopped leaves. Thats it...let Mother Nature do her thing and in Spring as they start to pop up I pull the pots out and let them get sun and air...:) Last Year I didn't even do anything special for them and even the little one gallon pots made it fine...I think blocking the cold north winds/cold and stopping the wind from drying out the pots totally is the key. I think stablized and constant temps seem to be the key too. I believe the temps going up and down all the time do the most harm. I think if you stabilize the temps they are and do, fine...IMHO I found this to be true with most perennials...not just daylilies. Hope that helps Jane...Good Luck with yours...I'll be doing about 150 pots this Winter and hopefully they will all be ok...again..:) Rick

Last bloom today on THUNDER DRAGON (Gossard 10). It's been a great season for this one. Also, rebloom on CHIEF DAN GEORGE (Dickerson 92). This daylily, registered as a mauve bitone, is probably the scariest plant I've ever grown. I picked it up maybe two years ago from a club event with no idea what it was like. It's currently an enormous clump, just huge. I'm afraid of what it'll be like next year! Even though it's supposedly just a bitone, mine has shown pattern almost every day. The color is not good, but I've loaded it down with pods, with the pollen from every patterned dip I've got here. I don't necessarily expect great seedlings (although I am curious), but maybe all those pods will slow this monster down! If that doesn't work, I could always plant it outside the deer fence. I had a last bloom yesterday on CANDY APPLE VELVET (Kirchhoff-Schindler 11). What a red! If you like red daylilies, please let me recommend this one to you. Picture on the Daylily World website fails to capture the intensity of color. It's an evergreen, but hardy, and like the description says, not only did it bloom early, it was a true extended bloomer, and it rebloomed. Also yesterday was last bloom on the late-blooming THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE (Bachman 09). Very bright, clean color. Not as tall as its registered 40", but it's newer and could use another year to settle in. It would probably help if I gave it more space as well. That means redoing that bed. Who has the time??? !!! And I have a very nice rebloom scape on EXTEMPORANEOUS VIRTUES (Hanson 07), with at least four more buds still to go. A very pretty daylily. Now that it's reblooming, I like it even better!