Friday Flower – Rose Lyric

I’m ready for some more flowers!

These lovely daylilies are a variety named “Rose Lyric.” I bought this plant on a whim when ordering from one of my favorite daylily farms, Bloomingfields Farm. Most nurseries don’t offer this particular plant, and I don’t understand why as it is a stellar daylily.

With blooms of rich red that don’t fade, and deep golden-colored throats on each flower, it makes a glorious display. I especially like that each clump produces scads of blooms, not just one or two, and it blooms for weeks instead of just a few days.

To my surprise, this daylily blooms prolifically in heavy clay soil while only getting morning sunlight. It even has richer colored blooms under those conditions than it did when I had it planted in “nice” soil and getting uninterrupted daylight.

The bunnies love this daylily, too – but not to eat! They hide under its nice thick clump of leaves.

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  By Kris, in New England, January 24, 2009 @ 1:12 pm

  Beautiful but I know them by a different name:

  Catnip for Deer

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