At our old house, Old Blush bloomed in flushes. With several of them, it should always be in bloom. It starts blooming early and continues repeating very late into the season -- often the first and last rose (of only a dozen) to be in bloom, as late as December depending on how many good freezes we got. It did get BS a few times, but it just dropped the leaves and put out new ones. There was a gorgeous picture of a row of Old Blush along a fence in an old Antique Rose Emporium catalog, which was why I got it. Somehow, I wasn't as impressed with the real thing, but pictures are usually taken at peak performance. I've always wanted to plant a long row of them, but I don't have the space. :(

Casey- This time of year each year around the forth of July is always lots and lots of bloom. I don't even get pictures of everything. mantis- Back in 2007 when I started with my daylily crazies I bought all my daylilies from Maryotts. Gift From Heaven is one of them. I have no idea if it's an evergreen or not, I just bought them because I liked the pretty flowers. Since then I have gotten rid of any poor doers that I started out with and the rest are all troopers. No problems with winter and good increasers.

Thank you so much. I will copy that and send it to my DD, who has two little girls. One is 3 years old, and one is 10 months old. She feels this way often, these days. This was great.

I think it depends massively on the rules for the particular parade, and how things are "done" in your area. Sometimes, if everybody is just throwing up a parade home, yes, they can be cheap. In other areas, parade homes are homes that were already being built that are opened up as a marketing tool for the builders and subs. In that case, you might not gain much. One local parade only allows advertisement within homes by companies who are members of the local HBA. (Meaning, if you used a kitchen company who isn't a member, they can't put out materials and likely won't discount.) Some parades are free to tour, but charge fees for the builder to put the home on the parade, others charge to view, but don't charge the builder. Our builder isn't too into it, as it's a huge time commitment for him and doesn't really gain him much in useful contracts. YMMV. It really depends on which segment of the market you're in, as well.