I spent part of this afternoon with a dirt fork and a shovel, ripping out about 8 sq' of orange daylilies.
Last week the bed in question looked like the picture above. By today the flowers had gone by, so I set to work on getting the daylilies pulled out. I left a couple plants behind the main clump, so there'll be some for next year. Next time I'm up to it, I'll add some cocoa fiber, polymer crystals and a few other amendments to the now-open space. (Just a single shovel-depth this time, no double-digging.) I've got 3 young rose plants that just arrived last week from Heirloom Roses, and they'll go in this newly available space.
I've got one 'Autumn Sunset', which will eventually go by the fence by the side of the house, and two 'Zephirine Drouhin', which will go on each side of the garden arch. But in each case, those beds are still to be dug and amended, so in the meantime they will get tucked into this temporary location while they get a little bigger.
By the time I'd finished pulling out the daylilies (and boy, are their roots ever robust!), I was pretty tired. I probably would have overdone it and kept gardening for another 30-40 minutes and wound up totally wiped out, but Mother Nature told me it was time to go in. I didn't listen at first, but eventually the rain got heavy enough that I was getting too wet to continue. Just as well.
'Autumn Sunset'
and 'Zephirine Drouhin' 
I fell in love with 'Autumn Sunset' when I lived in Boulder, Colorado. It has a wonderful fragrance, and the yellow /peach /apricot shades shift according to the weather, time of day, and/or season. 'Zephirine Drouhin' is an old Bourbon rose, and is said to be nearly thornless, which I thought was a good attribute for a rose that's going to be covering an arch.