Gardening That Grows With Me
Height: 90 cm (36 inches) Bloom: early season Colour: Huge, very deep red-purple blooms with green throat. Another of my favourites. The blooms sit very high (truly close to three feet), are absolutely huge, there are loads of blooms, not … Read More
Height: 45-60 cm (18-24 inches) Bloom: Midseason, repeat bloomer. Extended bloom. Colour: Bright red small flowers with yellow throat. About the same time as I planted some Pardon Me, I put in some Ruby Stella. They are remarkably alike, almost … Read More
Height: 45-60 cm (18-24 inches) Bloom: Very early, repeat (constant) bloomer Colour: Raspberry pink with yellow throat. Rosy Returns is one of the longest bloomers I have seen. It starts in early June and blooms until frost. The only disappointment … Read More
Height: 55 cm (22 inches) Bloom: Midseason, repeat bloomer Colour: Lavender purple star shaped narrow petals with yellow green throat. I have this planted with Heuchera Marmalade and the colours complement each other beautifully. I have not noticed that it … Read More
Height: 45-60 cm (18-25″) Bloom: Midseason, repeat (constant) bloomer Colour: Lavender blooms with yellow throat and ruffled edges. Several varieties of continuous blooming daylilies have been introduced over the past few years. In addition to the traditional Stella D’oro I … Read More
Height: 45-60 cm (18-24 inches) Bloom: Midseason, repeat bloomer Colour: Small burgundy (ruby) red blooms with greenish yellow eye. A miniature daylily with small (2 – 3 inch) blooms in bright cranberry red. The scapes are loaded with blooms and … Read More
Height: 65 cm (28 inches) Bloom: Early midseason, repeat bloomer Colour: Rich cream slightly ruffled edges with violet-purple eye and yellow green throat. A multiple award winner including the Award of Merit in 1987, Pandora’s Box is an early bloomer … Read More
Height: 75cm (30 inches) Bloom: Midseason Colour: Pale apricot pink with yellow green eye. Nancy’s Child has large single flowers with ruffled edges. It produces huge, abundant blooms on very tall, thick scapes. This is another variety I picked up … Read More
Height: 45 – 60 cm (18 -24 inches) Bloom: Midseason Colour: Golden yellow single flower with deep red centre eye and yellow throat. Wow! Very showy from a distance with blooms that sit way up high. Another variety that I … Read More
Height: 60 cm (24 inches) Bloom: Early to midseason bloomer Colour: Large baby pink ruffled edges with rose pink inner band and lime green throat Janice Brown was slow to develop in our garden, taking a few years to develop … Read More
Height: 60 cm (24 inches) Bloom: Repeat bloomer and extended bloom time, blooms almost all season Bloom Colour: lemon yellow. Happy Returns has the advantage of blooming all season like Stella d’oro but with a softer yellow flower that sits … Read More
Height: 58 cm (23 inches) Bloom: Rebloomer and heavy bloomer Bloom Time: Midseason Colour: Deep purple flowers with bright lime green throat. Grape Velvet really glows from a distance. It produces a mass of wine purple 4″ blooms set above … Read More
Height: 58 cm (23 inches) Bloom: Early bloomer, blooms for extended period Colour: Burnt red double blooms with complementary gold-green centres. Double Firecracker produces very large 6″ red bronze blooms. The colour is better than Double Bronze as the colour … Read More
Height: 71 cm (28 inches) Bloom: Midseason Colour: Gold yellow with slightly ruffled edges and red mahogany eye. Another selection I picked up from The Potting Shed in 2002. The blooms are double, very dainty but floriferous. Blooms are held … Read More
Height: 76 cm (30 inches) Bloom: Midseason Colour: Bronze with yellow throat surrounded by deeper bronze-burgundy shading A daylily with a double flower and slight ruffled edge. I picked up this daylily from The Potting Shed in 2002 and it … Read More
Height: 45 – 55 cm (18-22″) Bloom: Midseason, rebloomer Colour: Orange red with yellow throat and stripe Narrow red petals with yellow eye and yellow throat. I picked this one up based on the tag picture thinking it had those … Read More
Height: 60-80 cm (24-36″) Bloom: Midseason bloomer Color: Deep crimson red with yellow-green throat 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 … Read More