Lovely photos Kay. I just love that Fernstone clump shot. It is spotless and the color is so rich.

The temps took an upward swing yesterday with humidity on the rise followed by more rain. I think I pulled just a smidge of weeds yesterday before I had to retreat from the humidity and rain. Suppose to get more later with severe thunderstorms/strong winds predicted for Monday and then another cool down by mid week.

Our son had been here for a couple of days helping with some brush removal and tree cutting down by where we once had an old barn. We hope to have it cleaned up by the fall and the last of the stones from the wall moved up to the house area. Still have a lot of brush to move to the brush pile but at least it is progress.

Kay, glad to see some blooms from you. I am liking Purple Mask, is it peachy like the picture shows?

Sherry

Glad some one else is getting rain, too. Its all its done here almost every day for 2 weeks and they say rain some more all this week, too through Saturday.I am sick of rain, but will probably wish for some in August.

jean

The Fern Stone clump is really lovely and so nice to have multiple blooms this early. The other two are very pretty too!

Thank you for the comments. Fernstone has clumps everyday now...a magnificent bloomer and I've had it a few years in that spot. Julia, you are right, the blooms are much better than last year....I need to get slug repellant out though. Yes, Sherry. that is a very accurate representation of the colors of Purple Mask. Debra, I am always glad when the first few start because I know the show will start soon.Jean, I am hoping for rain. It has been over two weeks here, but the much has kept the moisture in the ground. Happily.
kay

How beautiful your daylilies look, those first pictures of the season really make me drool. I had a bloom yesterday on Web of Intrigue, a new one for my garden. I was just commenting on another thread that I walked through the garden yesterday morning & there were a few scapes, maybe on 5 or 6 plants. We got a good rain mid day, & when I walked outside late afternoon, I know there were scapes that weren't there that morning. Lots of them too! Won't be long now. We got more rain today, & more expected tomorrow. We were getting really dry.

Thanks, Nancy. We are really dry, Nancy, and so far the scattered rains have mainly missed us, but we had so much for a while, and my season starts early, so I have any, many scapes all over the garden. a rain would speed the opening up, but that is out of my hands, of course.

We too finally got rain; very welcome, even though the unsettled weather has made me sick for several days (fibromyalgia). Fernstone seems to be one of those daylilies that gets a lot of scapes, even if the bud count isn't spectacular. Your plants look very healthy.

I'm with Jean on the rain. Can't we get it in July or August? I'm sitting with my feet in a puddle of water potting daylilies and we've got more storms coming the rest of the week. BUT this is about those gorgeous daylilies of yours. That Fernstone is really showing off and I've always liked Colorado Moonstone. The colors on Purple Mask are very nice too. Sometimes that paler peachy orange color can come across as just looking dull and muddy, but Purple Mask is lovely..........Maryl

Send it to me, Maryl. It's been a couple weeks since we had a goo rain
kay

Could that be Colorado Moon Fire?

The second one is Colorado Moonfire,Dick
I have three more now, will put up phtos later today
kay

You must have got rain today,since I don't have rain, today, hooray for a dry day, finally.

jean