Very simply put , we have experienced the WORST season ever since I started with daylilies over 12 years ago . It continues to be horrendous....... so wet with standing water and freeze and thaws well into April, then rain rain rain ...thought it would never stop . And then it did stop , COMPLETELY ! We have had one decent rain event since the beginning of June . No such thing as a day of rain anymore here . Still waiting and hoping for some rain but weather guesserators are predicting another 7 days of heat and sun . Grass is brown , daylilies are dropping buds and leaves are dying and I am totally discouraged . This season has been a complete waste of time .

In regard to my daylilies the Best word for the season here is, compressed. A cold spring here meant all the earlier Bloomers were late. Some of my daylilies had exceptional seasons and a handful didnt bloom, a First here. A bad hail storm on Memorial Day did so much damage. Most of my hosta still look awful, daylilies had scarred leafs. I’ve had more bud drop the past few weeks than usual. A good note, my Hydrangea have all looked great! The maple trees here are stressed dropping leaves the past few weeks, too dry here the past several weeks. I’m giving my season a 6.5. Hoping for better next year. Hoping my trees survive.

Sherry

Spring did not start off so great, I had bud drop on a few, but not too bad. It was a wet spring, a cool one but no late freezes. Daylilies were a little late through most of the season. We had good rains til the last couple of weeks. Not exceptionally heavy bloom counts, but better than average generally with all of them. Plants that I normally have less than 10 have had closer to 20. I have been very happy with daylilies this year. Hydrangea have done well here too. Iris did well this spring, despite all the rain they still looked good in June through mid July. Rain continued though, and I guess the heat boiled the rhizomes. I see rot in many iris, i have never had much problem with rot before.

After an incredibly wet spring, like 2018, everything started well. I can't speak for all my daylilies as I didn't get out much due to my knee surgery, but from what I could see most did very well. A few were sparse, but that is to be expected. Some were better than ever, so it balanced out. Spring flowers had mixed results, some good, some not at all. Irises were terrible.

I had a few bud drops on one scape for Belle Isle Sentry, my first, but the other scapes were very good. One of my latest, Ollalie Autumn Gold, has bud drops & deformities on all scapes and is doing poorly due to that, but the VTs all around it are amazing in their buds and blooms. We just had 12 days with little to no rain, but the VTs don't seem to notice and almost everything else is done. The VTs are closer to species daylilies in generation, so I think that makes them more hardy.

Rebloom has only happened on Elegant Candy, the least amount ever, though there is still a probability that Belle Isle will rebloom.

To sum up, it was a very good year for daylilies here in central KY.

It's been a terrible year here in west central Indiana. We had quite a few losses during the winter--more than the previous year. The spring was long and rainy, but there were no late freezes. The early ones bloomed later than normal and the lates bloomed at the regular time so the season seems compressed. Then the tap turned off and its been dry and hot. Scapes were shorter on just about everything and bud counts were lower. It's still too early to tell about seeds, but my feeling is that I have fewer pods than last year so I expect seed counts to be down. The funny thing is the seedlings performed better than the named varieties. We are going to do some soil test to see what is going on in some of the beds.

Nancy

An earlier bloom that I labeled as Unconditional Surrender is actually Joy Came Down, reblooming now . Afternoon pic, as I didn't remember to photograph this morning.

It began early, Went along beautifully and refused to stop. Everyday it seems another plant puts up a scape or scapes. I am very happy with this season. It was dry, but I can water, and the plants had the water they needed to bloom very well indeed. the new ones and the fairly new ones that have rebloomed are tall with large blooms so it rate it very very good.

kay

The dry weeks of May brought low bud counts for the earlies. Rain from the last week of May through early July gave good bud counts to mids, and great bud counts to lates. This is the coolest summer here since I began growing daylilies in the early 1990s. That caused darker, more beautiful color on the blooms. more pods to set than normal, and good rebloom. I would rate this season a 7.5

Debra

I'm not sure how to rate it. Winter didn't want to leave, late spring, lots of rain, bloom season started late and many scapes this year with a great amount of blooms on many. No losses.

Japanese Beetles invaded, weeds continue to be a prolific, grass continues to be mowed and I'm ready to start moving plants before the alert of when the first frost will come this fall.

Julia