Your pictures are wonderful. I wonder if I could get Fighting Fire and Baja California somewhere in Southern Ontario. I NEEEEED them!

These are my runners up for Top 10. All had wonderful runs this summer.

Queen of Narnia

Spacecoast Francis Busby

Cool Hand Luke

Kentucky Lucky

I had to edit this to add American Doll, my best performing pink. It bloomed for a long time, and for the first time ever acted as a bud builder.

Debra

If I could only have one of those daylilies it would be your former Valentine Sweetheart. A pretty face is one thing (especially if it's pink) but it had such a marvelous performance to go along with that. You really had a killer season in my view.........Maryl

Keswick and Signet - I hope those two would be hardy in Ontario. One never knows how far north those Florida bred daylilies will thrive.l

Maryl - I've never put a seedling on my Top 10 before, but the former VS has certainly earned its place there. It's still blooming today.

Debra

Baja California looks a lot like Spanish Fiesta - well duh - S.F. is one of its parents. S.F. did so well for me as a first-year plant. Rebloomed nicely, overlapping first bloom.

Linda Beck did well here too, though scapes were short. I've become habituated to its perfect flowers. I always look forward to your "favorite" wrap-up. Of course, different years produce different results.

Wow Debra! Your top ten are so nice I can't begin to pick a favorite. And great statistics on top of beauty. I have been slowly getting rid of poor and mediocre performers and adding good performers. This is good info for the future.

Brad

I love most of them and like the rest. You do a great job of growing some awesome daylilies.

I always look forward to your posts debra, so many beauties.Thatt WILLOW DEAN SMITH is such a beauty.I just have to get that one, then save up for Fighting Fire. just beautiful...

All so pretty. I think Integrated Logistics may be the next addition to my garden...

When I see the name Integrated Logistics, I just think of all the trucks I have to encounter whenever I use I-70 in the Columbus area. It may never make it to my garden.

Funny, Dick.

Spectacular daylilies and photography of the flowers. Not as easy as it looks. Are you using focus stacking to get the depth of field for these clumps?

Barb - I don't know what focus stacking is. In fact, I know very little technical info about cameras, settings, etc. I use a long zoom lens on my very old Nikon to get the the depth of field. I don't even know what size the lens is. My hubby is a photographer and lets me use his lenses. He can't believe I get such good photos. I just look for the flowers that are posing in good light.

Debra

Debra - you do amazingly well. Focus stacking involves putting your camera on a tripod, then taking a series of photos with the focus on the front to the back of the field of daylilies (or birds). Using software, you can do layers to get a full focus across the entire field of view (or just the area you want in focus). This is tedious and really only practical with digital cameras but man it does make a normal lens photo look a lot like yours with the telephoto!

If you are going to put the camera on a tripod why not just stop down to f/16 or f/22?

That definitely does add the depth of field necessary.

Fighting Fire I such a beauty,i come to look at all thee beauties seveea;imes a weekThey they are all so pretty. swow, don't type in the dark.

Great photos, well grown plants. Super! Thanks!

wow.