By now most of us have heard of everblooming daylilies or at least the most popular one - Stella De'Oro. New daylilies are always being introduced, but many of the new and old daylilies bloom only once a season. There are a handful of new daylilies that are truly repeat bloomers, with several cycles of blooms, allowing you to enjoy their beauty from late spring until well into autumn. This week we are featuring another one of these everblooming beauties - 'When My Sweetheart Returns.' It is one of the newest creations of master breeder Dr. Darrel Apps, who is also known for other popular repeat-blooming daylilies including 'Rosy Returns', 'Happy Returns' and 'Big Time Happy.'
Enjoy This Unique Color Combination until Late Fall!
'When My Sweetheart Returns' combines colors that are not common amongst daylilies - yellow, pink and green. The five inch blooms are lemon creme and have bold rose eyes and bright lemon throats, grass green tonsils and white midribs - a striking combination that will brighten your garden from June until fall! This daylily has a neat, compact habit, reaching just 16 inches high with deep green foliage that will clump quickly. Each stem will have about 2 dozen buds for a continuous show of gorgeous blooms; and you can expect literally dozens and dozens of stems, throughout the season, from a mature clump. It's compact habit makes 'When My Sweetheart Returns' ideal for smaller gardens, containers, planted along the edge of a border, walkway or patio or planted in mass. 'When My Sweetheart Returns' is ideal for colorscaping the foreground of a sunny foundation planting. Everyone can find a spot for this lovely daylily! For additional color this autumn interplant your daylilies with spring-blooming flower bulbs.
Planting and Care
'When My Sweetheart Returns' is very low-maintenance, requiring just well-drained soil in a sunny location to give you years of beauty!
- For best results plant in spring or fall.
- Performs best in full sun, but will tolerate partial shade.
- Plant 24 inches apart in well-drained soil.
- Fertilize in early spring and late fall with Flower-Tone and Kelp Meal.
- Hardy in Zones 4-9.
Click here to view 'When My Sweetheart Returns' pn the Carroll Gardens website.
Alan Summers, president of Carroll Gardens, Inc., has over 30 years experience in gardening and landscape design. He has made Carroll Gardens one of America's preeminent nurseries, having introduced more than 20 new perennials and woody shrubs over the years and reintroduced numerous "lost" cultivars back to American gardeners.
Carroll Gardens publishes a weekly online newsletter written by Alan. It contains valuable gardening advice and tips and answers to customer questions. http://www.carrollgardens.com/emailsignup.asp">Click here to sign up for the Carroll Gardens weekly enewsletter.
Every Saturday, Alan hosts a call-in gardening forum on WCBM radio - 680 AM. For those outside of the WCBM listening area, they can listen to radio show via the internet.
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