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Barb & Jack Kramer: It is a great adventure every morning to see which daylilies are open that day and see how the same garden can change from day to day in coloring and depth. Our favorite part of this time of year is having friends and family come to the yard and ooh and aah, and then to be able to say to them "Would you like some of that to take home?" We love to share the beauty and fun of it all.
Doris Simonson: The July Garden Walk went well with over 100 visitors. Interesting comments came from many people. The Plume Poppy in my Shakespeare Garden ( at least 8 feet tall this summer) drew tons of comments with many people requesting the botanical name for it (Bocconia cordata or Macleaya cordata). Special daylilies this year included H. 'Shores of Time' (Stamile 2002), H. 'Spacecoast Cranberry Kid' (Kinnebrew 2001) and H. 'Shantih' (Stamile 2001). I did some hybridizing this summer and plan to register a few seedlings this fall.
Barbara Nickel: In my garden star performers were H. 'Ruby Spider' (Stamile 1991) , H. 'Persian Ruby' (Trimmer 1998) and H. 'Zella Virginia' (Kropf 1982). I've made the difficult decision this year to get rid of some of my "old friends" plants to make room for new ones and am not doing at all well with this effort.
Zannah Crowe: Summer's gone...and July with its floral abundance almost a distant memory. What will hold our interest in the autumn garden? A few of my favorites are Aster sedifolius 'Nana', Rudbeckia 'Autumn Sun', Lycoris squamigera, Calamintha nepetoides and Ornamental Grasses.
Harold Steen: Weird weather during the winter of 2005-06 brought too many "no-shows" to my daylily garden. Old favorites such as H. 'Sabra Salina' (Wilson '91) and 'Bold Butterfly' (Benz 2000) did not bloom and several new purchases of last year showed they were also too tender. Some sent up scapes without buds. The warm January 2006 stimulated bud formation which was then frozen with the return of winter temperatures. However, there were many garden successes. Longevity was great with 'Tar & Feather' (Kaskell '99) showing its large yellow and black eye flowers for 55 days, 'Street Urchin' (Kirchoff '92) bloomed for 53 days and 'Lavender Blue Baby' (Carpenter J, '96) bloomed over a 54 day period.