7 daylilies with yellow flowers
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Make sure to allocate a spot for the daylily in your garden, as its summer flowering is vibrant and it adapts easily. If you are not familiar with it, you will be delighted to discover this perennial that continuously renews its flowers for at least two months. It requires a few hours of sunlight each day and can thrive in all types of soil, although it prefers cooler soils. It is particularly known for its warm colours: yellow, orange, and red.
Let’s take a closer look at the yellow daylilies, a very emblematic colour of this perennial. They are often solid-coloured and have single flowers. However, there are also double varieties and those with more intricate flowers. They allow for many cheerful combinations, and their simplicity fits well in both formal and eccentric borders. Discover 7 cultivars and botanical species in the vibrant world of yellow daylilies.
Yellow daylilies, an intense light in the garden. Here ‘Double River Wye’.
Hemerocallis 'Corky'
Let’s start with a very elegant variety: ‘Corky’ is a lovely daylily with trumpet-shaped yellow flowers, small, delicate, and tubular. It is enhanced by brown-red sepals and stems, which add to its refinement. With a very bright golden yellow, its flowers are particularly small, about 6 cm. It blooms from June to August. This is a medium-sized plant: 60 cm in height with a spread of 40 cm. It is particularly robust and long-lived. It adapts to all situations, and its size also allows it to be grown in pots.
With single flowers, it offers a simplicity for a naturalistic display: plant it, for example, alongside Achilleas, Achillea ‘Love Parade’ with pink corymbs, Achillea ‘Terracotta’, add an Agastache ‘Black Adder’, and a grass Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Bronzeschleier’.
Hemerocallis ‘Corky’, Achillea sibirica var. camtschatica ‘Love Parade’, Agastache ‘Black Adder’, Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Bronzeschleier’, Achillea ‘Terracotta’
Hemerocallis 'Chicago Sunrise'
As its name suggests, the daylily ‘Chicago Sunrise’ offers a flower that seems warmed by the morning sun, a very pigmented golden yellow, even a dark yellow almost orange. Growing in a clump 70 cm tall and 60 cm wide, it bears fragrant flowers of about 10 cm in July and August, star-shaped with slightly crumpled rounded petals. This variety can blend into many settings.
Why not create a somewhat exotic border to complement its warm colour? Plant alongside it a Cordyline x banksii ‘Electric Star’ (hardy only down to -5°C), a Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Forever Gold’, a Gaillardia ‘Kobold’, and a Cosmos x Dahlia ‘Mexican Star’. Sow an annual: seeds of Amaranth ‘Fat Spike’.
Gaillardia ‘Kobold’, Cordyline x Banksii ‘Electric Star’, Amaranth ‘Fat Spike’, Cosmos x Dahlia ‘Mexican Star’, Rudbeckia ‘Forever Gold’
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Hemerocallis citrina
Botanical daylily, the Hemerocallis citrina is a large specimen reaching 90 cm with big flowers measuring 15 cm. With its very bright and clear lemon yellow colour and long, slender petals, it stands out from afar. Initially trumpet-shaped and then star-like once open, each stage is remarkable. It exudes a powerful lily of the valley fragrance. It is repeat flowering: it blooms in June, July, and again in September. One could say it has many assets.
Plant it alongside other sculptural perennials such as Agapanthus ‘Northern Star’ and Mullein, Verbascum ‘Gainsborough’. Add a Thistle, Eryngium giganteum (biennial) and a daisy Leucanthemum ‘Banana Cream’. Simple foliage provides connection and necessary calm: clumps of fennel, for example.
Hemerocallis citrina, Leucanthemum ‘Banana Cream’, Eryngium giganteum, Fennel, Agapanthus ‘Northern Star’, Verbascum ‘Gainsborough’
Hemerocallis 'El Desperado'
The daylily ‘El Desperado’ is hard to miss. It features round petals in a bright yellow that is slightly faded and a purple halo that is also found as a fine edging around the crinkled petals. The centre is acid green and the throat is yellow. On a plant measuring 70 cm in all directions, large flowers of 12 cm bloom at the end of summer, from August to September, for this late variety awarded by the American Hemerocallis Society. It is a beautiful, original, and charming cultivar.
Plant it, for example, for a very exotic scene with Peruvian Lilies, Alstroemeria ‘Indian Summer’, featuring yellow, orange, and red hues against bronze-green foliage (note limited hardiness: -10 degrees). A few Crocosmias ‘Hellfire’ add a fiery touch. An Muhlenbergia capillaris further enhances the flamboyance of this characterful border.
Hemerocallis ‘El Desperado’, Crocosmia ‘Hellfire’, Alstroemeria ‘Indian Summer’, Muhlenbergia capillaris
The daylily ‘Patricia Jojo’
Here is a double-flowered daylily, ‘Patricia Jojo’, which exudes a certain elegance. It showcases a warm, bright yellow, with round, crumpled petals, and a large 15 cm flower that is also fragrant. This daylily, although double, remains very simple. It blooms from June to August on a clump measuring 65 cm in all directions.
Try it in combination with a poppy, Papaver orientale ‘Harvest Moon’ with its crumpled orange flowers, along with a Nepeta nervosa featuring light purple spikes, and a Geum ‘Feuerball’ with its lovely red flowers. Don’t hesitate to sow some Nigella seeds, Nigella papillosa ‘Midnight Blue’. You will surely find them in other parts of your garden in the following years.
Hemerocallis ‘Patricia Jojo’, Geum ‘Feuerball’, Papaver ‘Harvest Moon’, Nepeta nervosa, Nigella papillosa
Hemerocallis 'Snowy Apparition'
In the evocative name of snow in summer, the daylily ‘Snowy Apparition’ features a very pale ivory and soft salmon flower, with white midribs and a very pale acid green centre. This generous variety is opulent with its carelessly recurved flowers, large blooms measuring 16 cm on a plant that reaches 80 cm in all directions. Its petals are fleshy and undulate, thick and crinkled. It blooms in June, July, and into August if the soil remains cool. Its flowers fade to salmon pink.
It makes a striking impact in a white garden, perhaps alongside a beautiful Foxglove, Digitalis laevigata ‘Alba’, a Echinacea purpurea ‘Purity’, and the very lovely Verbena hastata ‘White Spires’. If you feel inclined, add the Eryngium yuccifolium.
Daylily ‘Snowy Apparition’, Echinacea ‘Purity’, Digitalis laevigata ‘Alba’, Verbena hastata ‘White Spires’, Eryngium yuccifolium
Hemerocallis 'Mini Stella'
Low-growing yellow daylily, ‘Mini Stella’ is the little sister of the very famous ‘Stella de Oro’. Both are very robust and floriferous, making a wonderful display in pots or borders that they cheerfully brighten for several months, from June to September, with a constant renewal of flowers day after day. The plant measures 35 cm in all directions with small, bright yellow, well-scented flowers of 6 cm.
Plant it in borders with heucheras: Heuchera ‘Prince of Silver’ with silver and purple foliage, along with a very lovely Phyteuma scheuchzeri, with bright blue flowers, a cousin of campanulas, and the often-overlooked Origanum rotundifolium ‘Kent Beauty’ with its charming small pink flower bracts. This display can also be grown in pots.
Hemerocallis ‘Mini Stella’, Phyteuma scheuchzeri, Origanum rotundifolium ‘Kent Beauty’, Heuchera ‘Prince of Silver’
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