Daylily

Daylilies are versatile and very easy to maintain…and they offer a huge diversity of bloom color. For these reasons, daylilies are one of the most popular perennials available. Several varieties such as Happy Returns and Stella D’Oro, are rebloomers and bloom all summer.  Others bloom, take a break then rebloom (South Seas for example). Some varieties feature fragrant blooms. Flowers rise up on leafless stems from the lower growing long strappy foliage. Although each bloom only lasts a day, there are many superior cultivars that have several buds on each stem, extending the bloom time. Deadheading will encourage additional blooms.

• Sun to Part Sun
• Plant size and bloom color are variety specific
• Heat and drought tolerant once established
• Low maintenance
• Reblooming varieties available

June 4, 2025 Notes from the Growers

Because it’s hard to get all the information you may want from just a name! Availability changes fast so we can’t say all of these will be here when you visit, but at this moment, we have most of these in good quantities.

• South Seas (5″ light coral with dark coral ring and gold center and frilly edges, fragrant, midseason, nocturnal! and flowers stay open for an extended time)
• Mose’s Fire (double petal, 6″ cherry red w/ gold ruffled edges, compact)
• Perceptive (compact, pinkish orange w/ darker pink ring and frilly edges, semi evergreen)
• Bella Lugosi (6″ dark purple w/ lime green center, midseason-July, semi evergreen)
• Star of the North (pale yellow w/ wine colored center, triangular shaped flowers, fragrant, midseason) 
• Purple de Oro (2.5″ purple w/ darker veins w/ bright yellow center, compact)
• Blood, Sweat and Tears (fragrant 6″ raspberry red flowers with pink ring and yellow center and white edges, semi evergreen foliage)
• Handwriting on the Wall (6″ peach flowers with wine/lavender ring and yellow/green center and purple ruffled edges, fragrant, semi evergreen foliage, midseason-early July)
• Stella de Oro (2.5″ gold blooms, “world’s most popular”, reblooms best when de-headed, subtly fragrant)
• Hungry Eyes (5″ peach blooms with wine/purple ring and orange center, wine/purple frilly edges, fragrant, semi evergreen, late midseason-late July)
• Happy Returns (3′ canary yellow, fragrant, descendant of Stella but larger blooms and more yellow less orange, blooms early summer and sporadically until frost) 
• Pardon Me (miniature daylily, 2.5″ in cranberry pink w/ light green center and ruffled edges, fragrant, nocturnal!, midseason-July)
• Sirocco (6″ salmon pink with gold center and ruffled edge, midseason-July)
• Sombrero Way (peachy orange blooms, late midseason, vigorous)
• Woodside Amethyst (lavender purple w/ light green center and ruffled edge, semi evergreen, early midseason)
• Island Bonfire (gold flower w/ red ring and ruffled edges, semi evergreen, compact)

• Marque Moon (compact,  5″ cream/pale yellow flowers w/ frilly edges, heavily budded!!!, fragrant, late midseason-late July)
• Ruby Spider (9″ ruby red flowers w/ gold center/veins, early bloom-June, award winning)
• Persian Ruby (8″ deep red/purple, similar to ‘Ruby Spider’, midseason bloom-early July)
• Nosferatu (dark purple w/ yellowish green center, similar to ‘Bella Lugosi’ but shorter, fragrant flowers, semi evergreen foliage, midseason-July)
• Joylene Nichole (6″ light pink w/ yellow center and darker pink veins, frilly edges, evergreen, midseason-July)
• Primal Scream (7-8″ bright orange flowers with long, narrow petals, midseason-early July, taller)