I love yellow. It just pops all the other colors. This is one of my favorites.

Googies:

Adore the color of this, but as usual with Frank Smith daylilies for me, in it's 2nd year the scapes have shrunk.

Apache Sunrise:

One of my favorite girlie girl pinks:

Pink Aloha:

New last year, this Dale Hensley daylily is on it's way to becoming a keeper:

Palmetto Pride:

I think you may suspect why Orange Smoothie is impressing me so much this year. This is the rose it is next to:

Mary Pickersgill (she is of American Flag fame in the war of 1812):

Orange Smoothie next to her:

That's it for now.........Maryl

Maryl, those are truly lovely I adore Googies, Wayah Valley, Apache Sunrise, all of them. Just lovely.

kay

All eye candy today, wonderful pic of Pink Aloha. Your rose and Orange Smoothie are a perfect match!

Believe me Celeste, I was thinking of you when I saw those colors in our cooler temperatures. "Wow! This must be what Celeste sees all the time." Our heat index is due to go up to 100 Friday, so it's probably back to my "color retention" reports-lol......Thanks Kay. I know you have lots more to share too........Nancy: Pink Aloha is an addictive pink. I lost her once many years ago. After a couple of years without her I just had to have her back. It really is serendipity that the rose and Orange Smoothie ended up next to each other. Works for me.........Maryl

I know you caught Kay’s eye with that gorgeous red but I am a fellow yellow lover so I love Googies. I just got Pink Aloha this year and I hope it looks as good as yours-just beautiful. And so sorry about Apache-I love mine and hope it goes the way of some of Smith’s cultivars for me which is waiting, waiting, and then taking off. No loss on it yet but not multiplying much either. Really like the rose color. All of these combined to make a wonderful bright post!

Maryl, such lovely photos today! I’m so glad you posted Orange Smoothie, I do love it! Hope mine improves this season. Pink Aloha is a perfect daylily to me, luscious pink, I’m not sure it would do well here. If I remember correctly it has been a problem plant for a some. I like your new Palmetto Pride.

Sherry

These are all fabulous! You know I love Pink Aloha, but that photo may be the pinnacle for that daylily. Wayah Valley is a gorgeous intense red. The orangey apricot color of Apache Sunrise with its gold edge is hot perfection. Palmetto Pride looks like a winner, and I love the color echo you have going on with Orange Smoothie and the rose. Googies looks so pretty with it's companion plants! Beautiful post!

Debra

I like Palmetto Pride. Am becoming more interested in Hensley daylilies. Is Orange Smoothie the rebloomer it is touted to be?

I like your picture of Orange Smoothie. I bought it last year - divided three fans and now each is sending up a scape. Looking forward to flowers.

Dick: Interesting report on your Orange Smoothie. Every day here there seem to be more blooms/scapes popping up and the flowers seem to be getting larger too over their size last year.......... Mantis: Unless it's an exceptional year or an unusual daylily, I don't get much rebloom here - even those in the ground. I've tried a number of Dale Hensley daylilies and he's certainly worth exploring. He seems to have taken more effort with color retention then many of the more well known hybridizers..........Kate: Here's good luck with your Apache Sunrise and mine. It's such a gorgeous color. Daylilies that don't have vigor in my climate usually don't last more then a couple of years before they just disappear.........Debra: We are both Pink Aloha fans. Wayah Valley (Hensley hybrid) is not only a good red it's very colorfast here when our heat is in the 90's.....Sherry: I wouldn't recommend Pink Aloha for a zone 5, but you never know. Palmetto Pride is a mauve/lavender color that I've recently taken too. Like many of Dale Hensley's it tolerates higher temperatures too.......Maryl

Palmetto Pride is my favorite of these, but they are all nice.

Pink Aloha and Apache Sunrise are my picks today. Apache Sunrise didn't do much for us so we sent it to a friend in the south. Wayah Valley certainly has intense color.

Nancy

Brad: The heat index today was 105. Palmetto Pride benefited from some afternoon shade in that temperature. So did I.......Nancy: Humm on your Apache Sunrise. Well, if it doesn't give me some taller scapes next year I may have to give her a trip to the Gulf myself. Wayah Valley is always dependable - hot or cold............Maryl