So many nice clump shots today! I love Heart of Glass. Love seeing your Clown Parade….mine was new to the garden and had first blooms last season.

Sherry

Oh, those clump shots are gorgeous! I guess I would have to say Rose F. Kennedy, Deliver and The Dark Side are my favorites today.

Nancy

Thank y'all for looking and commenting. I had to leave out a lot and didn't show any FFEs or FFOs I just tried to find the best of the lot. Kate, I know you are having the same storms we are having, and I picked 429 wet blooms this morning before the pictures. These aere from the previous two days, so maybe tomorrow I will post today's shots.

Sherry, you will probably really like Clown Parade. It seems to do well everywhere, and I do hope it does well there.

Nancy, I can't seem to choose a favorite...they all are favorites and they aren'tt the only ones. which seems weird. Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee is new and I always love Frsancis Busby too, so each day right now is a lot of fun. I have a good many Judy Davisson plants that are new this year, so they will not show out too much probably but sometimes they do better than I expect them to do. New ones opening are like opening a present and I can't imagine how it must be to see one of your own bloom for the efirst time.

kay

Wowzer on the photos Kay. Stunning clumps and pairing of blooms.

Julia

What beautiful clumps! My favorites are the pairings of Citrix and SC Francis Busby and Mr. Butters and Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee. Others that stood out to me are The Dark Side and Life Unlimited. The Emmerichs - Deliverer and Intelligent Design - seem very prolific in your garden. Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos!

Debra

Thank you so much Julia and Debra. Y'all are so sweet to look and give such sweet comments.This has been a lot of fun but I am constantly having too many to post all of the good ones. but maybe I will pull out some good ones later. Those pairings just fitted together so I had to post them as a pair. I am pulling a bit more than 450 blooms a day now, and with so much rain I sometimes have to pull them in the morning before photos. I do have a lot of new ones this years thanks to Debra and to a group of Davisson pant buys.

kay

very pretty all of them. I particularly like Spoken in Parables. It was on my list a few years back. I don't have any room now, but will remember how pretty it looked in your garden if you like the way it grows for you in your heat........I know we both like the hot colors and SC Francis Busby and Citrix shout out Hello! when placed together............Maryl

Thank you, Maryl. Spoken in Parables totally ignores heat. It has a lot of substance and it typically reblooms twice here after a very good initial bloom. Indeed yes, the brights do appeal to me and Debra provided SC Francis Busby to me several years a go and it is a favorite.

kay

Francis Busby looks very good in your garden. So good to see branching, bud placement, scape height on all these cultivars.

Mantis after a very, very dry winter, this spring has been overabundant with rains which have greatly helped. Thank you for your kind comment.

kay

Gimme and Deliverer are the standouts in this posting. But they are all gorgeous.

Brad

Thank you Brad.

kay