Well now, have mercy! All those lilies were so pretty but then I saw that photo of Clown Parade and nearly fell off my chair. When you're that drop-dead gorgeous how can you not show off? Where oh where can I buy myself a Clown Parade? My next favorite would be the first one, the Westbourne one. I am enjoying all your postings and can never get enough so keep them coming! Celeste

Kay and Julia--I love Hello Screamer too. I'm a sucker for the ones with really big eyes. Kay and Renee--Serena Sunburst is a great plant one of those I will always have. Great parent too. Nancy--Rose Emily is another that will always be here. Every bloom seems to be perfect. Rita--Buttercup Eyes is one of those that I think should be better known. It performs way better for me than some of the ones with the same color combination that are well known.

I just looked up Sheer Ecstasy on the Schreiners gardens site and while it looked ok, no way does it look like the stop you in your tracks gorgeous bloom that your garden shot shows. Thats why its so difficult to pick them just from the catalog photos. I love to see garden shots whenever possible. kay- About expending the bloom season. I did just about everything that could possibly be done last year to extend my daylily season. You know I went very heavily into proven late season bloomers for my area and really hope I have finially gotten real rebloomers, again for my area. I also tried some early bloomers although I was not sure this was really the way to go. The early bloomers mostly were not that exciting a flower and there were lots of plain yellow and yellow and more yellow choices. So as far as that goes, I have what I have. I will continue to work on getting more rebloom and true August blooming late bloom in my daylilies. But for the earlier bloom, I have given up on daylilies and am turning to Iris instead for my spring blooms. I have 28 Siberian Iris planted now and 8 more on order for this week. I am trying to figgure out what I will order for my Tall Bearded and maybe can get something that blooms before the TB. My garden is so heavily mulched (it looks like a woodland with the thick carpet of leaves between my shrubs and roses) and the Siberians can take the same conditions as the daylilies. So it was a challenge to me to figgure out how and were I was going to add bearded iris, which can not take my preferred mulching routine. Its always a work in progress.

Thanks to all of you. We have been fortunate to have the daylilies do so well this year. I love clump shots, like to see all those flowers, I also like your comments on how your daylilies perform for you. So, here are some from me: Zip Boom Bah is a small plant. It has suffered as many of ours do from moles running underneath and tearing up the roots. However, this year,small or not, it has been doing wonderfully well, just love seeing those bright flowers. Mystical Rainbow has been a stellar performer since it arrived about five years ago, same for Sm. World Snow Owl. In fact every one of these has done well since we acquired them H. Tiger Tails is starting its third year here, and I have told you the story of Star Child. Julia, it's just too bad Star Child needs the heat, for it is just so lovely. We marvel at the intricacies of the colors of that one. Miss Tinkerbell has been with us for a lot of years but it seems we finally found the right home for it, this is the best it has ever been. Fairy Tale PInk was a $2 buy from a city park. They were removing daylilies and this was one I bought without a name, finally found out what it was.