I did try to adjust the color on Black Beauty (3rd shot) because the camera didn't capture what I *thought* my eye was seeing (darker purplish burgundy), but maybe I should have left it alone. And there's always monitor calibration which can throw color off on either end.

Black Beauty faces downward, so I had to get down on the ground to capture what I could of that.

Aubade I wish had a little darker yellow streak down the center and a little wider but not as wide and dark as some I've seen, but this is what I got, so I'm keeping it :-). Now that I'm used to it, maybe I like the delicacy of it even better.

Still, I think I have enough of those kind of the oriental types. I think their blooms must take a lot of energy from the bulb and would burn out if they bloomed longer or rebloomed maybe.

I did one foliar watering with diluted kelp earlier, per directions, and not when the sun was bright or hot, may give them one more app after the blooms fade. Someone last year told me about it and swears by it.

At some point I may have to worry about rabbits. So far so good, think the owls cleared them out the last couple of years. And for good measure, I need to give the new sprouts a dose of Liquid Fence if I can work it in. They're certainly easy to grow here, but at some point may get something I have to worry about and see mentioned here.

These, daylilies, and other perennials are certainly more care free compared to roses. Some of the roses do rebloom right along, but only a couple continuously.