A few years ago, I visited a local daylily seller in the downriver suburbs of Detroit (Miss Becky's Daylilies, I believe her garden was ...Read Morecalled.) and spent a pleasant several hours looking over her plants and making a few selections. She practically forced this daylily on me as a bonus, even though I wasn't really keen on it at the time. Of course, she was right. The plant has become one of my favorites. Polychrome daylilies can sometimes look a little too washed out or "pastely " but the colors on this one, peachy yellow base overlain with a hot orangey-pink wash positively glow in the yard. Add in good growth and the rounded ruffled form I prefer (the picture doesn't particularly flatter the flower.) and this one's a keeper. Last summer I bloomed my first seedlings from it as a pod parent and already have several promising flowers from it.
Yellow gold and amber peach blend with green throat.
(Walking on Sunshine × Alexandra)
A few years ago, I visited a local daylily seller in the downriver suburbs of Detroit (Miss Becky's Daylilies, I believe her garden was ...Read More