Daylilies – Peach, Golden Yellow, Dark Red Vibrant in My Sunny Garden

The garden in our old house was half shady and some of my daylilies did not do well.  They survived and bloomed but never seemed to thrive.  We moved here two years ago.  Our back yard is almost all sun all the time.  We moved some of our plants with us, including daylilies, even the ones that I was less than enthusiastic about.

I’ll show our new garden and how we put it in from scratch over the next few weeks, but today let’s celebrate a few of our thriving, happy, glorious colored daylilies.

I didn’t care much for this first red daylily in our old house.  It’s dark, almost maroon in the shade, but a nice dark red in sunny locations.  You can see it is pretty tall with medium sized blooms.  Somehow we ended up with several pieces of this one.

Tall Red Daylily

Here’s a close up.

These next show two daylilies that are planted together and bloom together. In our old house the bright yellow one was in the back in heavy shade yet it managed to bloom quite a bit. I think it is Mary Todd and is a tetraploid. The flowers are huge and substantial.

This daylily came to life in our new sunshine garden! The golden yellow just glows. You cannot miss it.

The daylily in the back is a mystery that I wish I remembered the name of. The colors are perfect. Rose, gold, apricot, peach, pink with a golden yellow ruffled frill on the edge, all the luscious summer fruit colors. It blooms heavily for a couple of weeks and I had divided it several times in our old house. We moved several pieces of it here.

Don’t these look great together?

Since I don’t remember the real name, I call this Summer Hosanna. We have an even more drop dead gorgeous daylily that blooms later called Hosanna that was hybridized by Brother Charles Reckamp and is the same color family.  Hosanna did not spread as abundantly as did this one but we have a couple plants that I hope bloom next month.