Hemerocallis 'WILD AND WONDERFUL'

Daylilies are flowering queens for one day. Each bloom lasts a day but there is no need to worry – every stem bears more blooms and as the plants grow older they have numerous stems each. This low-maintenance perennial is a miracle for those who have limited time to spend looking after their gardens because apart from occasional watering on hot and dry summer day it needs ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. And still it can leave us gazing at their beautiful, lily-like blooms of every possible colour you can think of (except for blue and black).

Wild and Wonderful is a tall daylily from Grace and Patrick Stamile from the USA. It produces extra large flowers up to 22 cm across with unique colours. The petals are narrow and form a chevron, or a triple star if you like, where the central star is the usual yellow green throat, the middle one stands for the eye which is dark burgundy red, and the outer star is an interesting mixture of orange and salmon pink. It is a tetraploid (with 4 sets of chromosomes: total 44 in each cell) that begins to flower in June, and reblooms in midsummer. Stems are 90-95 cm tall, leaves are evergreen.

The leaves are deep green, strong and healthy. They appear early in the spring and persist until winter unlike spring bulbs whose leaves wither away after flowering. Apart from occasional slug attack there are no pests or diseases they would suffer from. Put your daylilies in a sunny spot and fertilize it for better flowering every spring, if you want to. It tolerates all types of soil, preferably it likes moist soil. Very hardy to min. -40°C (USDA zone 3).

Last update 10-01-2019