zone five, west michigan. the very earlies start around the last week of june here, by the middle july we peak and then it's downhill from there.

I have a 'Little Cadet' with scapes a few inches taller than the foliage. I don't find any scapes on any of my others.

Earliest bloom is first part of May, beginning of bloom season is mid to late May. Peak bloom is early June. Zone 7b Fort Worth Texas

I am 7a. I have a couple of scapes from new dls but it probably will be mid may before I see blooms. Maybe later since I have no scapes on established plants.

my scapes are on fiery Moment and Bird Talk.. I can't wait..Ellie

Well I'll be DANG, Shucks, I swear, ole Wade is in Foat Wuth too. Hey we are zone 8a ROFL. Well anyway somewhere I typed in my zip code and thats what it came up. I have some bloom, and it ain't even May yet. So there!!

not sayin my name either

The earliest bloom I've ever had was Stella D'oro, on June 7.

I have a few blooming the last week of June, just like Cody in MI, and most peaking in mid-July. I have ordered a bunch of late bloomers to last into Aug. and Sept.

Julie

My season started TODAY!! with My Darling Clementine. She beat out the Stellas which usually begin around 4/21. They're a little late this year. Howdy, neighbors!

Southeastern AL. My first bloom was April 21 with only a few blooms each day so far.

Stella started blooming here about a month ago. This last week Graham Memorial, Sea Swept Dreams, Fortune's Dearest, and Siloam Double Classic have all bloomed. And I've had 6 or 7 seedlings bloom for the very first time. It's an exciting time in my garden!
Kathy

I will try to post a few pics tomorrow. It looks like Princess Diana, Precious Candy, and Iwanna Piranha are going to bloom. Not sure about Precious...first bloom it started opening the morning before it bloomed. If it does it again, it should have been named Princess. Dot, I'm in Watauga. We are probably in different zones...in Texas zones don't span beyond city boundaries.

As far as Stella is concerned, bloom season started weeks ago, LOL! As for everyone else, I'm expecting blooms by this weekend on Leprechaun's Wealth & Jolyene Nichole--both are loaded with buds and are just about ready to go. Have scapes on almost everyone else. I'm really too new to know peak bloom down here in the Houston area, but I believe it's around mid- May??

In the PNW most start blooming around Memorial Day, end of May, except the lemon lily which starts earlier in May, H. citrina. They peak sometime in July to early August and I don't get much rebloom or late bloomers.

I've had blooms on Cast A Spell, new for me last fall, and yesterday the first bloom on an established dl, Cosmic Hummingbird. It was my first to bloom last year also. I've got tons of scapes, so should be seeing lots of bloom by mid May.
I'm in south central AL, zone 8.
Jan

Zone 6a peak bloom is usually the third and fourth week of June.

Brooke

I'm right on the border of zone 4/5 Canada, I'm surrounded by lakes and we're just at a narrows that divides two lakes. Zone 5 this side of the causeway/bridge, If I cross the causeway ( which is a 2 minute walk from my house) I'm in zone 4 (so they say) I think that is like 3/4 by the states zoning.
My lemon lilies usually start blooming late may, followed by Stella in early to mid June then the rest follow. Peak bloom is mid July to early August. I get bloom right thru august and if I'm lucky some in sept. Stella keeps going until October.

Same time as Brooke's

Janet

Looks like we're about a week or so away from first bloom here. Discovered about a dozen scapes coming up from what is probably Stella De Oro. I've had this clump for probably 25 years, from before I kept any records. There is a real nice chart at http://www.bloomingfieldsfarm.com/seasearl.html#first%20early which separates their daylilies into growing seasons. Full disclosure -- I've never ordered from them, just find the chart helpful at times.
Larry in Springfield, VA

Here is a link that might be useful: Seasons Chart

In this part of Upstate NY, I might see my first bloom by the last week of June, a week earlier if I'm lucky. I can't remember what bloomed first last year. I'm just happy to see daylily FOLIAGE at this point! My late risers are just poking through the mulch now. I'm relying on all of you to provide pictures of your blooms for me to admire until mine finally start. . . .

Laurel

Well hello neighbor Random, actually I have 2 blooming today which I will post the pics on the other thread "Pictures as promised"
And OMGGGGG Wade (Simplton), I could throw a stone and hit your house ROFL, I'm in Summerfields off of North Beach St.
My Princess Diana has a bloom stalk also but it is small, it has split into three fans now. I also have a small stalk on Goldenzelle from F Smith.

Dot

Last year first bloom was Siloam Double Classic on July 6th or 8th. I can't remember which. Peak bloom is last week of July or first week of August depending on the year. This has been a slow spring to start so it wouldn't suprise me if it was an August peak this year.

Edward

I'm in Central California, and I have had a couple of blooms - started at the beginning of this week - of Raspberry Pixie. They don't look all that pretty, but I'm thrilled to see ANYTHING, as I'm new to all this, and I thought I had killed all three of the ones I ordered and planted in containers last September. They all look healthy and GREAT now, and Addie Branch Smith has a scape coming. Nothing on the third one, May May, yet, but I'm not worried - it looks like a happy plant. I don't know if these would ordinarily be blooming at this time - I ordered them from Olallie Daylily Nursery in Vermont (organic), and the catalog has what are no doubt Vermont bloom-time expectations.

I live in Maryland (suburb north of DC) and my daylilies start blooming in mid June with peak in early July. I'm so jealous of you who have blooms already!

Juliet

Had my first bloom last week on Miss Mary Mary. Have scapes on a few others. I expect peak bloom mid-may here in my zone northwest of Houston.

Juliet-

I guess you are close to me... what city do you live in?

Christine

My bloom season varies with the spring temps, and it has not been consistent for the last three years. The earliest I've ever had blooms was in mid-May. The latest was the second week in June. Most years the main bloom season starts the last week of May here and continues through the first week of July, with peak coming in mid-June. I get a bit a rebloom in August, September and October.

Shive

As far as Zone is concerned, I am in a small area that starts on the shore of Lake Erie and goes west from there. This means that we have flowers blooming earlier than people just a few miles away. This puts us in Zone 6.

My daylilies start the first week of June - Bitsy always has that honor - and continues into September. Here again, Bitsy is always the last. Also, she has flowers ALL through the blooming season.

Not too many bloom into September but I have a few late ones.

Kay

Christine,

I live in Silver Spring, near Olney. Is that close to you?

Juliet

Juliet -

I am just up 270 in Frederick. Not too far.

Christine

Christine, I live in Harford county in MD. We get a lot of sun here, so my earliest lilies start blooming at the very end of May around here. My husband and I just took a trip to Cumberland last week, we probably drove right past were you live! Lots of Mountains out that way, My kids like driving through sidling hill. Your probably not quite that far west, but know what im talking about. Anyway, back on subject, hope your lilies do well. I think we are in a good area for daylilies, I have DOR, SEV, and Evergreens, and they all seem to do fine every year.

My Little Cadet opened its first flower on April 30, so the season is underway!

I'm in the Hudson River Valley of New York, and we usually see our first bloom during the last week of June.

jkunkel - No, we aren't that far west. We are Southeast of Hagerstown. But we camp at Rocky Gap and we go through sidling hill on our way. My kids love it too. Hopefully my blooms won't be far behind yours!

Christine

Here in England, in the last 5 years we have been getting very mild winters and exceptionally hot and dry summers resulting in a much longer flowering season (May-October most years now).
The scapes on Cosmic Hummingbird are getting taller by the day and I am hoping that it will bloom within the next 2 weeks (about a month earlier than it would have done a few years ago).
In some respects we are lucky in England weather-wise but the lack of rainfall nowadays means we are having to recycle water where we can.

I forgot to write down when my Black Eyed Stells started bloming this year as I think they were the first. Then my yellows that I have had for many, many years. I think they are Mary Todd.

Next spring I intend to keep a record in my computer of my bloom season and what daylily does what. This way I will be sure to ID the great bloomers and any that rebloom.

I live in Central Florida 40 miles from Tampa and 60 miles from Orlando on the I 4 corridor. My bloom season can start as early as March or as late as the end of April as it did this year. One year I had blooms in Feb on Valentines Day. If the temps get back down to normal range temps I can say that blooms will start popping up by the end of March with the scapes appearing and then the blooms themselves will be in towards the end of April or the begining of May.

As I write these words tonight, I have a scape that is up about 8-9 inches on EYE CATCHING. I will let it grow on and if bad weather is threatening, I will protect it.