Kay, Hopefully Abilne Lillian will improve for you.I don't think it looks bad at all,Looks a lot like hillbilly heart, to me. I like the color of Lucky Stripes, not the form that well, but the color is gorgeous.well, I like Mary Jane's Wild Rose Petals , too. and them dasies are very pretty as well.. I have to soon got out in the heat and water everything again. I waterevery day,and it don't look like they ever get a drink here.its so hot and dry.

jean

I really like Lucky Stripes and Heavenly Angel Ice - I just got HAI a couple of weeks ago, looking forward to seeing it bloom here next year. Your daisies look so fresh and nice! Love them.

Too bad about ABILENE LILLIAN . Sure looks like it would be a pretty bloom.
HEAVENLY ANGEL ICE would be my pick. Seems to do so well in so many different gardens.

Julia

The daiseys are great and Lucky Stripes is my favorite!

You know I love Vulcan Logic, and how nice that it reblooms for you. I need to hear more about Abilene Lillian. I LOVE that eye. I don't know what you call it when the midribs look like they've made the eye streak, but it's beautiful.

I think Abilene Lillian looks fine for a first bloom. I'd give anything if mine would give me a bloom, any bloom. I thought the eye and edge were a rosy red. Vulcan Logic and Lucky Streak are looking great!

Debra

Lucky Stripes and Heavenly Angel Ice are my favorites too. Abilene Lillian looks like it could be beautiful soon. If all my daylilies looked like their first bloom I would have a much easier time downsizing.
Val

Ledgewood's Jumpstart got its picture lost. Something else is there.

Thanks, jean. It is a first bloom, and the plant has put up three scapes, so we'll see how it goes. I hate that you've had to water all summer when so many of us are getting rain galore.
Twixanddud Hope HAI does well for you.
Julia, I expect reds, but was hoping more for the rose on this one.
Chris, it has rebloomed the last two years. It is a pretty bloom when the thrips and slugs leave it alone.
Thanks, Debra. I was surprised since I planted it kind of late this spring.
Val, it will probably improve.
Thanks Mantis. A neighbor had just dropped off a lot of grapes, and I was already set to can pickles, so I was even more discombobulated than usual. I fixed it.
kay

Lucky Stripes is my favorite, a very cheerful, happy daylily. Heavenly Angel Ice still didn't do that well in my garden. I'm going to move it & see if it does better. It is right beside my monsterous kiwi & I keep having to move the kiwi aside so HAI can get plenty of sun. The vine may be sucking all the nutrients from the soil too.
I had to look up Abilene Lillian to see what it is supposed to look like. Personally, I like the more red tone you are getting better, but I know how you feel when that first bloom doesn't look the way you wanted.