| Description | A strong growing red daylily with good substance. |
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| Pronunciation | (hem-er-o-kal-lis) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full, mostly sunny, some shade |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | ruffled edge red flower, blooms mid to late season |
| Fruit | seed pod |
| Leaves | strap like leaves, emerge from a crown just underneath the soil |
| Roots | fibrous, fleshy |
| Dimensions | 30 plus inches |
| Maintenance | The maintenance of this plant can be rather easy and can be treated like most perennials, which is cutting off the dead foliage in the fall when the plant is going dormant. Another way I like, is too clean the plant up after bloom. Cut off the long flower scapes and remove any dead foliage. Cut it back in a fan shape 4-6 inch above the ground. It will regrow and fill in with fresh foliage (hardiness zone #5). At this time it is forming new roots and is a good time to fertilize |
| Propagation | division in late summer early fall is best, can also be divided in the spring |
| Author's Notes | This is one of my favorite red Daylily. A strong growing plant and its foliage doesn't start to deteriorate in the fall of the year as quick as the older varieties. Also a lot less dead foliage during the growing season. In my garden this Daylily is one of the last to bloom. |
| Notes & Reference | #131 The Gardner's Guide to Growing Daylilies (Diana Grenfell), AHS |
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