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Hemerocallis 'Cardinal Summer' - Daylily from Quackin Grass Nursery
Hemerocallis 'Cardinal Summer'
Daylily
Plant Type:
DAYLILY (HEMEROCALLIS)Hemerocallis 'Cardinal Summer' - A deep dark red velvety spider with a chartreuse lemon lime heart and blackened anthers. At the front or near the front of the border 'Cardinal Summer' will grab attention in the mid to late July garden lasting well into August. On July 27, 2020, the temperatures soared in full, blazing sun to 98F yet the flowers remained as deep, rich and beautiful at 6 p.m. as they had been at 9 a.m; they didn't lose a degree of tint or velvet texture making this winner completely sunfast in the northeast. Although this fine cultivar is not listed as a spider form to us it looks more spider than not. Fertile both ways. Murphy once again offers up a winner.
6”/ M / H34”/ / / D / dor
Genus Overview: Hemerocallis
Common Name: Daylily
The well-known daylily. We have become increasingly taken with the late and very late bloomers. Those glorious daylily trumpets add such rich and contrasting texture to mops and strands of goldenrods, Joe-pye weeds and late season daisy flowers that occur in abundance at this time; they are splendid with the broad flattened domes of ironweeds, the spikes of Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Firetail’ plus the seeds and berries that so opulently populate the landscape in the late season. We are offering a handful of mid-season bloomers. Of course, most of the breeding has centered about these and for this reason many of these cultivars are fancier. But we find there is elegance in the simpler flower form and gentler colors, often soft pastels, in the later selections. Most of the late bloomers but not all have originated with Olallie Daylily Gardens in South Newfane, VT. All cultivars are hardy in USDA zones 3 to 9 unless otherwise marked. All of the following are sent as bareroot divisions of our plants.
Please refer to the following descriptive codes for all daylilies:
Flower Size: is measured in inches (“)
Bloom Season: Very Early = VE
Early = E
Early Middle = EM
Middle = M,
Middle Late = ML
Late = L
Very Late = VL
Height: with an upper case “H” is measured in inches (“)
Rebloom: is indicated with an upper case “R”
Fragrance: is indicated with an upper case “F”
Very Fragrant: is indicated with an upper case “VF”
Diploid: is indicated with an upper case “D”
Tetraploid: is indicated with an upper case “T”
Dormant: is indicated with a lower case “dor”
Evergreen: is indicated with a lower case “ev”
All Daylilies are sold bare root