Hemerocallis Janice Brown

Janice Brown was slow to develop in our garden, taking a few years to develop a sizable clump. Now that it has though it is a show stopper. Each scape is filled with multiple flowers and a large clump, once established, will produce blooms for several weeks. If you love pink daylilies, this one is a winner.

An established clump of hemerocallis Janice Brown

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Hemerocallis Happy Returns

Happy Returns has the advantage of blooming all season like Stella d’oro but with a softer yellow flower that sits higher up above the foliage. I use it as background in some of my gardens but I wouldn’t say it is a focal point. The colour is a little too bland for me for that. As a filler plant and background for brighter colours, like red roses, it works wonders however.

Happy Returns in the Bird Sanctuary Garden

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Hemerocallis Grape Velvet

Grape Velvet really glows from a distance. It produces a mass of wine purple 4″ blooms set above the foliage and the leaves do look almost like purple velvet. It is both a heavy bloomer and a rebloomer with sporadic blooms later in the season.

Hemerocallis Grape Velvet above Pachysandra

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Hemerocallis Double Firecracker

Double Firecracker produces very large 6″ red bronze blooms. The colour is better than Double Bronze as the colour has a deeper red bronze however the blooms often are tucked inside the foliage. It may be that my clump is too large and needs to be split, something to try. Double Firecracker blooms earlier but is full of blooms.

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Hemerocallis Double Daffy

Another selection I picked up from The Potting Shed in 2002. The blooms are double, very dainty but floriferous. Blooms are held very high above the foliage, something that I think makes a great daylily. Double Daffy develops a large clump fairly quickly. A great performer.

Double Daffy Daylilies in late July in the Front Entrance Gardens

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Hemerocallis Double Bronze

A daylily with a double flower and slight ruffled edge. I picked up this daylily from The Potting Shed in 2002 and it has been a great performer. Blooms are large, appear above the foliage and it builds masses quickly. Some double flowers appear messy after they are finished or when rained on however Double Bronze is more a puffy daylily than a true double so it is much tidier.

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Hemerocallis Autumn Red

Narrow red petals with yellow eye and yellow throat.

I picked this one up based on the tag picture thinking it had those deep autumn colours I like so well but the show has not yet been as impressive as the picture on the tag. Autumn Red works well in a mass planting but it is not a specimen plant. It produces a profusion of blooms on scapes that rise above the foliage. The blooms appear in the later half of mid-summer, lasting well into August with some blooms still lingering in September.

Clump Autumn Red Daylilies in July

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Hemerocallis Anzac

Deep true red daylily with yellow-green throat. Blooms are about 5″. This is very bright and can be seen well from a distance. Blooms are held on scapes that are above the foliage. Very showy, provides plenty of blooms and colour holds up well in the bright sun. Some sites list Anzac as a rebloomer but it has not done so in our Zone 5 garden.

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