Description

Full sun, partial shade, deer, rabbit, and drought resistant, zone 3

Hemerocallis ‘Strawberry Candy’

Pot size #1

Bred in 1989, and has won many prestigious awards. Among the most popular varieties in the re-blooming daylilies, and is a multiple award-winner. It is an early midseason tetraploid Daylily, and will bloom in early-mid Summer. The blooms of this Daylily are bright coral-pink with red picotee margins and strawberry-red marks around its pale yellow throats. Each flower gets to be about 11 cm wide, typically lasts about 16 hrs, opening up in the morning and withering during the forthcoming night.  This variety has an extremely long blooming period.

Ideal choice for shrub borders, perennial beds, ground covers, or in containers. The best time to plant Daylilies is during early Fall or early Spring. After flowering, remove spent blooms. When all the flowers are finished, cut off the scape close to ground level. Remove dead foliage as they die back in the Fall.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard. This plant will grow to be about 26 inches tall and a spread of 20 inches. When growing in masses space out to 18 inches. The plant is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and not particular to soil type or pH. Once it has been established it is pretty drought tolerant. It has a medium growth rate. Daylilies are often call the “perfect perennial” because of its showy flowers, drought tolerance, heat stress immunity, and ability to grow with low care requirements.