Oh wow, that El Desperado! A gorgeous clump so full and lush with striking colors. Thank you for sharing!

eri54, I haven't seen you before, but thank you. El Desperado aways blooms like this for a good period of time...it has many blooms day after day. It and Little Light of Mine seem to think they are weeds because that is how they grow here. glad you enjoyed it.

kay

Love Island Time. The clump of El Desperado is awesome.

Thank you Avedon. I have posted it before, but the way it blooms, you just have to post it again.

kay

That's a beautiful clump of El Desperado. Mine has just started blooming. I love the delicate colors on Island Time. Asian Fairy Bluebird never performed well for me either, but the bloom was so stunning. In years with mild winters, it performed pretty well. But it barely bloomed at all after bad winters. A winter with zero temps finally killed mine. Not all flowers are created equally. Some from a hybridizer might thrive, and others not in your climate. I think Asian Fairy Bluebird is best grown in Florida, or in a greenhouse.

Debra

The clump of El Desperado looks great.

Unfortunately, I am afraid you are right. This winter, I will do my mini greenhouse trick and see if it helps. Thank you both El Desperado has been blooming for a while now, but you just have to post again when it shows out so much.

kay

My favorite is Lucky Streak. I like the dark ground color with the white stripe down the center.....Photon Torpedo is a bicolor that is interesting also.......Maryl

El Desperado can be counted on to be one of the last ones to begin blooming for me. Unfortunately, it was the one the deer found most tasty a couple of weeks ago. It has over thirty scapes on it and they took all but the low ones. I took a picture of those today-just beginning to bloom but what a gorgeous display it would have been!! Yours is lovely, Kay.

Kate

I hate that for you. It is always a dramatic bloomer for me.I have a couple still to begin, and Laura Hawood is covered. with buds...I will show yu what you can see past the bloom, but it is covered with buds underneath it.

Laura Harwood does look very well budded! You should get lots of bloom from that one.

Debra

Didn't see Philistine Champion this year from you. Yes, Laura and El Desperado are signs of the end nearing, but you will have rebloom. Laura blooms for longer than El D, and your Laura looks especially well budded this year.

I posted it several times, Mantis. It has done its usual thing bi=ut I think it is trhough...hard to say. Possession of Obsession has put up re-bloom scapes..as have a lot of others, and they don't always do it just after blooming.

kay

Nice clump of El D, I moved mine, and several other daylilies, by the side of our shop. Most of those have not bloomed nearly as well since, misses morning sun, but gets at least 6 hours. I guess I will move them out and try something else in there. I really like Photon Torpedo, it has a lot going on that I like. The color, histone, and topped off with a watermark, just lovely.

Wow on your El Desperado!!! And while you southerners are looking at things winding down, we northerners are still twiddling our thumbs, waiting for the show to begin! Ha ha! I've got a number of things that just went in last fall that I'm anxious to see bloom in person.

Alex

Your clump of El Desperado is stunning! Island Time also catches my eye.

Lori

My daughter Brianna really likes your El Desperado.