Beautiful, great pictures too, I especially like the shot of Red Rampage. sharon

You have a lot of pretty blooms. My favorites are Malaysian Marketplace and Dark Reflection. Red Rampage looks like a nice large red.

Debra

Nate they are all beautiful but I would have to say Missippi Blues and Screen Pattern are my favorites love those patterns and colors. Keep those photos coming.
Linda

They are beautiful blooms! All of the photos are lovely. I especially love the red ones, and the photo of New Paradigm is beautifuul too.
ky

Great pictures Nate! DARK REFLECTIONS MALAYSIAN and MARKETPLACE are very showy, might have to visit late at nite. ;0) Ed

Malalysian Marketplace is my pick out of this impressive bunch.
Christine

OH WOW!!!!You have some beauties there.MALAYSIAN MARKETPLACE is my favorite of them all, but, they are all so pretty.

Jean

Nice Nate. I like your commentary on them as well.

Julia

I had to look at your post several times to decide on favorites, and it is pretty hard to do with so many to choose from. However, Malaysian Marketplace, Dark Reflections, Mississippi Blues and Screen Pattern have to be my picks this time around. Like Julia, I like your comments--for instance telling us about the spacing on the branching. Look forward to more great pics soon. Avedon

I really like the garden bed shots as I always like to see the daylily setting in the garden. Lovely. Lots and lots of great bloom here to look at. Beautiful Flowers. Of course I do love MALAYSIAN MARKETPLACE. It is a favorite here in my garden also. Really like BODACIOUS BITE too, very pretty.

Thanks for all the compliments. I've been taking more notes this year, trying to figure out what's good and bad about the different ones (since a good daylily is more than a pretty face). None of them have been in my garden longer than 2 years though, so I won't be surprised if buds/branches improve more.

DARK REFLECTION was a great performer right out of the box, but it was also disappointing because it wasn't white and near-black like the hybridizer photo (in fact, I had a hard time getting it into the flower show last year because the photo and description were designed to sell plants, not describe them accurately). I've learned to like it a lot though, and I'm really digging the branches.

I have a feeling MALAYSIAN MARKETPLACE is destined to be a pop poll favorite before long, if not an award winner.

Nate

Nate, What a pretty group! If I had MS BLUES, I'd be spreading its' pollen all over SCREEN PATTERN. I have a thing for big red spiders, so I was glad to see SERGEANT MAJOR. Do you like it better than THIN MAN? I've been wanting to buy SKINWALKER for some time (love the form) ...but something else always takes precedence. Maybe this will be the year?!
Kathy

I am thinking to maybe do some longer crosses involving MISS BLUES and SCREEN PATTERN.

SERGEANT MAJOR is definitely different from THIN MAN -- SM is more serious, and TM is more carefree. THIN MAN was one of my favorites last year. Each of them had one early scape this year, and both have a lot more to come, so I'll reserve judgment until I see them with multiple blooms open. But I'll gladly report back!

Nate

I like them all but Red Chili Rendevoux has a nice form with ruffles, so it "edges" out the others. I like your narrative too. Informative....Maryl

I like the garden shots; it gives us some idea of the size of the flower and the scape presentation.

You have some great looking flowers and I really appreciate your comments. So nice to know how a plant performs. My favorites here are Screen Pattern and Free Wheelin.
Val

if this is round one, where is round two? I couldnt find it

jean

Round 2 will be in a few weeks after a bunch more things have bloomed.

So far, it will have RED VOLUNTEER, FIRE AGATE, WALKING STICK, WHEEL OF TIME, and probably also JUDY FARQUHAR, BROADWAY REVIEW, BLUSH OF SPRING, SOUTHERN WIND, STRAWBERRY CANDY, CITRIX, BECAUSE OF YOU, and my weird "BELA LUGOSIs."

Keep tuned to this channel!

Nate

Well Nate my favorite is Malaysian Marketplace and I got excited thinking yay I have that one on order. But alas as
I went to look at my order it is Malaysian Monarch not Marketplace. And BTW you have so many blooms I saw no weeds!
;) That's what I tell my husband when he comments on my weeds. "What weeds honey?" "All I see is flowers!"
Your gardens and flowers are beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Rena'

Hah, yeah, some low weeds don't bother me much as long as the non-weeds look good. Most people don't see the garden up close anyway.

Nate

With all those beauties its hard to pick a favorite. I've always loved Malaysian Marketplace. Double Down is really nice too. Free Wheelin is always nice to see, but the picture of DARK REFLECTION and MALAYSIAN MARKETPLACE with the white mums behind them is my favorite. Marg

wow that screen pattern is great. I like the malaysian Mrkt plc too.. great bitone effects going there! great pics. thanks, I like all the different views of the garden. :)