Thank you, Nancy. I do indeed like Extreme Tangerine even though my phone rarely actually handles, orange well. I have had a few unexpected reblooms this year. along with Yumph!, even Rose F Kennedy and Rosemarie Louise have rebloomed.

kay

Someone should post a pic of Extreme Tangerine in the NGA database. "Quite a year"! I am seeing a lot of cultivars on short scapes that seldom have this problem. There are exceptions. Thomas Tew is on taller than usual scapes and now multiplying. Also, the weather fluctuation has caused a lot of splotchiness. We will see: the season is just now gaining steam, but there are plenty of cautionary indications that suggest less than a stellar season.

Kay: The garden pic is wonderful. A lots of color with the foliage looking so lush. What is the tall clump near the lower right of the photo? I think today my favorite is White Eyes Pink Dragon with Two And A Half Cats running second.

Like mantis, we too are experiencing in the last couple of days cool temps overnight. I can't say the scapes are short but they are above the foliage, plenty of them on each planting here but it is a first season, newly planted so won't know till next year how they actually will do. Spring Mystique would not open fully two days ago with 49 degree overnight temps and today another bud is trying to open on it and we had overnight temps in the low 50's. I'm sure it will not open fully today again. Suppose to go to 90 this weekend. Glad I got the lawn mowed in the last 2 days. Yes, it takes me 2 days to do all the mowing and weedwacking done. Am I crazy or what LOL.

Julia

Kay, you still have lots of pretty clumps. White Eyes Pink Dragon looks wonderful! I need to move mine, it is not in a good place. Two and a Half Cats did put on a show this year! I like Yumph! How large is the bloom? Now you get ready for rebloom!

White Eyes Pink Dragon is my favorite, with Yumph a close second. Extreme Tangerine is looking good too! You still have lots of color in the side bed.

Julia - It's been taking me two days to mow my lawn for several years. This year it's taking three. The older I get, the more days it takes to accomplish the task.

Debra

Thank you for looking and commenting.

Mantis we have had an awful lot of rain, and maybe that has contributed tall scapes this year. Several of them are tall enough for me to be unable to get pictures from the top down without getting feet in the photo too.

Julia, The taller clump is fried Green Tomatoes. Those cooler temps are so hard on buds opening.

Kate, Yumph! is a little larger here than the 6.5 inches. IT is 7 and sometimes a bit more. The clumps, of course, are from the later ones blooming and as the ML plants finish blooming, I will be left with very few late blooms and some rebloom. I already as having a good bit of rebloom.

kay

Yumph! My favorite, with WEPD and then Two and a Half Cats just behind that. I look forward to my Fried Green Tomatoes looking as good as yours.

I love the clump shots and the garden shot. It’s hard to believe your season is coming yo an end, seems it just startef. Hoping for more rebloom.

Sherry

Thanks y'all for looking and commenting. Debra, White Eyes Pink Dragon has done very well this year. I am pleased to see such a large bloom on Yumph! such a pretty one as well.

Nancy, All three of the ones you commented on have done quite well this year. It just tasks some time and Fried Green Tomatoes should do well for you too.

Well, Sherry I still have a couple of hundred blooms but it is definitely over peak although it seemed to stay there for so long. Most of the side bed plants are a little later to bloom than most plants in the front bed, but there are still many blooming in all areas and I had another nice fellow to stop by when I was working in the garden and tell me how pretty my flowers are and that he enjoyed seeing them when he drove by.