Moonlit Masquerade is often an early bloomer for us too. Lava Flow is now our earliest bloomer. We should have some in a couple of days.

Nancy

It is very pretty....I was doing some late weeding and managed to break both scapes on mine.,...that is how talented I am, so i enjoyed seeing yours.

kay

Mine has not bloomed yet, very nice bloom.

Kay, I broke off a couple of scapes this morning. One from 1st blooming seedling. Would have opened in a couple of days. I never break scapes off of big plants, just new ones, usually that I am really looking forward.

Always interesting to hear which daylilies are first for people.........Maryl

For many years, Moonlit Masquerade was always my first daylily to open. Yours is beautiful! It looks like mine won't open for at least another week. Isn't this early for your season to be starting?

Debra

I am seeing a lot of scapes which seems to be early but I am not a good record keeper so who knows? Ornamental Focus, Little Pink Cloud, Red Eye Shocker, and My Pet all had FFO today.

On a slightly different note, I received three single divisions of Tiffany Art Glass from Florida last Wednesday. One of the fans is putting up a scape. I will let one flower bloom then I will cut it off, to let the plant put its energy to grow.

Really ? you will cut off the scape? I have not been able to figure out why people do this . It is the plants nature to bloom ........why would you cut off its natural occurring scape. I know you said to allow it to focus its energy on growing but isnt scaping part of growing ? I wonder if it really helps a plant at all to cut scapes off . I can see not letting it set pods but really is unclear to me how cutting a scape off helps the plant .

A plant has only so much leaf area to manufacture food. That food can go to making flowers or growing more leaves or roots. This plant has very little in the way of leaf area so I will let it allocate its production to roots and more leaves.

Little Pink Cloud is a cute bloom!

Lori