As usual it's hard to pick favorites! On the list for me is Beyond the Sea such a great lavender. Next is Forty days and Forty Night with a white edge on purple. Pink Aloha is a great pink and I love the ruffled edge.i love the complex edge on Royal Cypher. I'm glad the deer have ignored your blooms, let's hope they stay away. My Stella's and Moonlit Masquerade are blooming here and it seems I have earwigs plaguing my gardens for the first time ever, got a plan to start tonight to get rid of them.

Sherry

Sherry - So sorry to read you and Mantis have to battle those nasty earwigs. I use Captain Jack's Bug Dead or Ortho Insect Spay on my pests.

Oh, I wondered when the Dominator would appear!! Looking good! And I knew I liked Old Time Italian the first time around. All these are looking great and the bed shot shows a lot of blooms AND some height!!

Kate

Bounce strips??

Wow, what a bunch. If I had to pick a favorite, I'd pick The Dominator.

The Barbara Mandrells look quite splotch free. Flower held high too. Great scape on Insider Trader. I think you said that you have had trouble before with Entwined in the Vine. Forty Days and Forty Nights did not impress me last year, but will see this year. It took better pictures than reality.

Kate - The Dominator is not doing as well as I had hoped. It lost a fan over the winter and then got shaded out on three sides by larger more vigorous clumps. I'm going to have to move it this fall. The flower is gorgeous and large, but it has fewer buds than last year.

Woodsidequeen - Deer hate the smell of Bounce Fabric Softener sheets. I cut them into strips and tied them on scapes. The smell lasts through several rains, and I haven't had any deer eating since I put them on. I read about it in an article about 20 ways to keep deer from devouring your plants. They also hate the smell of liquid Gain Fabric Softener. I sprayed a lot of my plants with that, but it does wash off after a hard rain.

Mantis - The Barbara Mandrell blooms have really improved over the past two days. It has taken three rounds of spaying to get the thrips out of the red bed. Insider Trading and Barbara Mandrell are both about the right height. I lost Entwined in Vine once in a pot. The place where it is now was shaded by bigger clumps last year. But luckily I sold four divisions of Sangria With Mia, so it gets more light now.

So many lovely blooms! The Dominator is my favorite. After seeing your pictures last year, I added it to my garden last fall. I am very happy with it (and will eventually get around to posting a picture)! Pink Aloha is my second choice, very pretty color!

Lori

Lori - I look forward to hearing how The Dominator does for you. Pink Aloha is a lovely shade of pink - very different from my other pinks.

Debra

Kate - Old Time Italian keeps its color in 90-degree temps better than any of my other pinks. So the color, the edge, and its sunfastness are impressing me.

Debra

I am dying of zone envy right now....lol. I am just barely seeing the first scapes appearing deep down in the foliage so seeing all these beauties is making me antsy for July. As always your daylilies are ravishing. My favorites are Barbara Mandrell (wow) and Pretty Desirable (aptly named!).

Celeste, yours is one of the gardens I envy! When others are over and done, yours will still be going strong.

Gorgeous. Hard to pick a favorite from so many beauties, but the ones that really stand out to me are Barbara Mandrell, Joan Derifield, Forty Days and Forty Nights, Insider Trader and Pink Extraordinaire.

Now Debra there is no way to choose one from all of that beauty, but I really like Barbara Mandrell always, and the Dominator is a real beauty. I also am quite taken with Summer Snowball.

kay

Kay - Summer Snowball was new last fall, and I just love it. Just wish it were really blooming very late,