A pink I was all set to not like, but one I've come to respect. From Bob Selman, a steady bloomer which has rebloomed the last two years and has a rebloom scape on it now.

Honky Tonk Barbie taken around 3PM:

This is one of two yellows I swear by in my climate. Sunfast and Colorfast. It has rebloomed before for me too (rebloom is an unusual thing in my garden):

Stroke of Brilliance:

Many of the newer small daylilies just look like another version of an oldie but goodie for me. It's a strange little thing about color. It shifts depending on the heat. Friday when it was very hot one of the blooms went polychrome on me with yellow being the predominant color. I find that interesting:

Addie Branch Smith:

This was from last year but bloomed this year. It was a gift plant, that has had its troubles with thrips this year, but has a nice edge and is a popular one I've heard:

Mia Bella of Gascone:

Finally, one of my true loves that has been with almost from the start.

Coral Corduroy:

Maryl

Maryl, your photos are always lovely! Mia Bella is so nice, love the edge, hope those pesky thrips leave. Honky Tonk Barbie and Linda Beck caught my eye today.

Sherry

Honky Tonk is lovely. A nice shade of pink. And Mia Bella seems to be living up to her name with that pose!! Stay cool in these horrible temps!

Kate

Linda Beck is such a nice one. I always enjoy it here. Honky Tonk Barbie is a beautiful pink, and looking like that 3 p.m. in your temps is highly respectable. Mia Bella of Gascone looks a lot like one of my seedlings that bloomed for the first time this week. It has the same colors and the splotchies. Without the thrips, both would be gorgeous.

Debra

Nice blooms Maryl! Coral Corduroy is a gorgeous color. I also really like Stroke of Brilliance and Addie Branch Smith.

Lori

Nancy: I understand your feelings about pink with yellow edges. But until I get one that is sunfast/colorfast I continue my search. As much as I like, and will keep, Honky Tonk Barbie, she is not colorfast enough for me. This is her at 6PM after mid to upper 90's during the day. You will see she is a paler pink:

Honky Tonk Barbie 6PM

Sherry, Kate, Debra: As soon as I saw how the buds were forming on Mia Bella of Gascone I thought there would be a splotchy problems. I placed the pot under my back porch to protect it from overhead dew/rain, but the Thrips are another problem that even the roof can't solve. Seems like every red with an edge I've ever grown has had a bad Thrips problem......Thanks Lori. I like both of them too.........Maryl

Honky Tonk Barbie looked good in a pot here, but has had problems adjusting to the garden. May have to move it; it is a Shores of Time seedling and S of T can be temperamental here. Linda Beck, which is nearly always nice, has been whammied by the oven here. Like the verbena in the background.

I never looked at Honky Tonk Barbie's background. That is interesting as I could never get Shores of Time to succeed for me. Once I was sent the wrong plant and it took me until next season to find that out. Once it died over winter, once it took two years to bloom and then developed rust so badly that I had to pitch it in full bloom, and this last (and I do mean last) time it died over winter again (in it's pot). By contrast HTB has been a dream, if it had only been a little more colorfast it would rank way up there (Selman's record on the colorfast issue can be spotty)......Has it been winter tender for you?.......Maryl

Very pretty photos, Maryl. Your Coral Corduroy is really prettty, as is Honky Tonk Barbie, but my favorite is Stroke of Brilliance

kay

Good choice Kay. I know you are just starting to feel the need for more yellows, and in your hot garden, Stroke of Brilliance would be nice, not only because it is sunfast/colorfast, but because it blooms so darned well. I'd love to see how it would prosper in your lovely garden released from the confines of a container.............Maryl

Too early to judge winter effects on Barbie.

You can grow the ruffles with all the heat you get each year. I had to laugh at the name "Honky Tonk Barbie". I like the look of Coral Corduroy.