Daylily 'Little Business'

The color fades to a light red or dark pink through the day. Longish bloom period but no re-bloom.

Love this little daylily! Quickly multiplies, reblooms all session long with a splash of red. Great in front of beds. Really, really l...Read Moreove this one! Takes the heat and sun of south Miss. Very well! No fuss plant that is a show stopper

This dwarf red daylily had a lot of adversity to overcome to make a good impression, but it did just that. I included it as an afterthoug...Read Moreht in an order from Springhill Nursery. I needed a couple of small perennial fillers to complete an order. 'Little Business' was one of a few dwarf daylillies that was currently on sale. The size and color were what I desired, but I didn't pay much attention to the incredible photo they had of it as many of their photos are often not beliveable.

The root division I received on 4/18/10 was barely viable with no green stalk at all. I figured that I wouldn't see it flower until the following year. I planted it in a one gallon pot and stuck it aside with the other daylilies I had bought. The first surprise was about a week later when a strong green shoot pushed-up out of the pot. Within a month it was large enough to plant in the garden where it continued to grow strong. The second surprise was about one month later when it started to grow a flower spike, the first of my new daylillies to do so. I expected that perhaps in about 3 weeks I might see the first flower. This was the third surprise. Instead of taking weeks to grow a stalk and then flowering, it opened it's first flower about ten days later on a stalk just about four inches off the ground. The fourth and last surprise was the flower itself. It was a very intense raspberry red with a very full round shape (it is included in the pictures here). I would say that it was in fact as good as the picture in the catalog.

The plant continued to grow and flower well all summer. Subsequent stalks grew longer as they should. Virtually every flower was a good shape, color and size relative to the very compact plant. I would say that overall it performed as well as 'Stella De Oro' which I planted about the same time. 'Stella' started blooming later but bloomed well into the fall.

I'm eagerly awaiting it's performance next year. I hope to update this review at that time.

I obtained this daylily by way of my mama. I separated the plant into about a dozen back in Feb. '08 and it just keeps blooming, and is ...Read Morenow reblooming again! It has lots of buds on it too. It's a short plant that makes lovely small flowers.