No, the mild winter was not a help here. Tons of thrips and other bugs. I think your richer colors are due to the recent cooler temps and not the mild winter.

Debra

You're Right , We have had nice cooler temps. And I have had daylilies bloom that haven't bloomed in a few years. But yes, the bugs. Oh my....

In my case I do think the mild winter helped however we have spread so much Milorganite on them, because of deer, and it is fertilizer. The lilies are loving it. We do need rain though.

Worst season I can remember. Unseasonably warm weather followed by freezes early in the season. Recently a few weeks of cooler than normal temps and high winds. My daylilies are suffering. Splotching and trouble opening, things are starting to improve now.

Sherry

Best season ever - flowers are bigger, scapes are taller and more abundant. I have some daylilies that sulked for several years decide that this was the year to bloom - Clark Gable, Ice Cream Emperor, Picture In A Picture, I could go on. The daylilies I received at the 2016 National Convention bloomed wonderfully - Bloomin Safari, Trenton Derby Hat, and Trenton Peach Filly. TPF is outstanding. Here is a picture - the flower was about 7 inches on a tall scape - great garden presence. Every flower has opened completely - no hangups.

dick_in_ohio(6a)Yes, this is what I am experiencing in KC, and I feel bad for people saying it is a poor year. I saw several daylilies I had not seen in many years.

Although it may go down as a warmer winter here, that's because they do the average. We saw single digit temperatures more then once (unusual) and I lost about a dozen daylilies due to the erratic nature of those temperatures. However, it's so common to have weird weather in Oklahoma that I forget others don't have the ups and downs we do. Now, the winter of 2015/2016 was warm. The ants were so invasive in spring that I finally gave up and had the exterminators do my house. The fleas attacked my cats, and they never have fleas. So all things being relative, this past winter was better for us.............Maryl

Flowers are indeed large, and, as Dick noted, many of the sulkers are showing their stuff. However, we lost almost a week to cold nights. It is getting very dry. And some cultivars did have short-scape syndrome (such as Musical Medley). Although I would not call it the best year in memory, it is a good year, which could have been better with more regular rainfall and less fluctuation in temperature. We should have had the cool nights in early June; instead, we had ninety degrees and weeks without rain.

I was overwhelmed today by the beauty of near-peak bloom.