AMEN!!! You nailed that right on the head. :-)

Linda

You are so right Rita. I can't grow roses to save my... well you know. I have tried and tried, spent lots of money on them. But, since I can't grow them I don't go crazy for them. I am envious of your roses, wish I didn't kill everyone I touched.

I hate plants that I have to dig up every fall. Gladolis, Freesia, Dahlia, Calla Lilies, Cannas. Not that I hate them I think they are beautiful. I just never remember to dig them up. If they can't make it thru the winter I don't want them.

I, like you, have gotten on the Oriental Lily crazies,the Asiatic Lily crazies, and the iris crazies. Oh,and the Hosta's and Fern Crazies got me as well.

But, with all those crazies, my daylily addiction is the worst.

Hopefully one of these days my yard will look as beautiful as yours....minus the roses of course. ;-)

Andrea

You hit the nail on the head, Rita.

My garden is a testament to easy-to-grow flowering plants for a California garden. A few tough roses, irises, daylilies, pelargoniums and calla lilies.

The anticipation of seeing a new daylily or iris in bloom is especially addictive, though. I can see how people end up with so many!

Renee

You got that right! A few successes and THEN add the enablers and watch out dl addiction!

I was into roses when I lived in a climate where they were easy to grow. Now I still love them but have scaled way back to a few that will perform OK without pampering. I'm sticking mostly to hardy vintage & OGR this time around because I most love the quartered look & strong fragrance.

I hate to grow anything that I have to pamper. Don't want to spray every few weeks or lift them out of the ground before frost or other such mucking around in order to keep them alive & looking decent.

If I give them good soil, plenty of water, a little fertizer once in awhile- well I want blooms for my trouble. That's not too much to ask and daylilies don't really ask for any more. Iris too for that matter, though I wish they bloomed longer.

Amen here too! I think you nailed it. :)

I feel the same as a lot of you here about finicky plants. I want plants that will not wilt if I don't water them every day, that will return year after year without lifting or dividing, and will bloom their little heads off for as long as possible! I had the iris crazies last year :) But it was not as bad as the daylily crazies this year. Whoa! I think it's all you guys pretty pictures and everyone being so friendly and open to talking about which ones are best for this or that.

I can totally see getting hooked on them. Easy to grow, and so much variation in colors and types of blooms. I don't know if I'll ever have hundreds (famous last words, right?), but I will say it is looking like the perennial garden this fall is going to be very dl-heavy. ;)

I can go to Swan Island Dahlias every year and be wowed by how fabulous they are but there aren't any in my garden. I'm not planting something you have to dig up. I don't have time for that. I barely manage to put the cannas that tropicalize my hot tub in the greenhouse....

Well, thats the best part about daylilies. Compaired to lots of other plants, they are truely easy :-))

As soon as bloom season draws near, its no wonder my daylily crazies just get worse. The scapes! The anticipation! Plus they are starting to bloom here and there. Nothing that much yet but enough so that I want to go out each morning with camera in hand to see what might be blooming today.

I know some of you have had lots of clumps of daylilies for many years. But not me. I only started the daylily crazies in 2007. So seeing all these scapes this year is just awesome to me. I didn't have this show last year, at least not this much that I will have this year.