My daylilies appear to be blooming a week to 10 days ahead of schedule this year. Usually the eager beavers start in the last week of June, but I’ve had some plants that have been blooming for a week or more already.
The first flowers are usually nothing to write home about, and the plants may only send one or two of them a day in the beginning—almost as if they’re testing things out.
This year the first flowers look even more “dress rehearsal” than usual. I attribute that to our month-long drought. Some are twisted or stippled or even pale.
But by next week most of the kinks should be worked out and I’ll have hundreds and hundreds of fresh, brightly-colored blooms greeting me each day for weeks.
