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(2010)
(NAPS)—Daylilies are a perennial treasured by America’s gardeners. These sunny flowers supply bright drifts of color throughout the warmer months, and every year brings beautiful new varieties.
One of the newest additions to the growing family of winning All- American Daylilies is the Dream Souffle, which placed first in the Exhibition category.
Dream Souffle is a rust-resistant daylily with fluffy, double-petaled blooms that are pastel rosy-pink blended with cream. The lily repeat blooms.
It is the 17th winner and the first double-bloom daylily to win this award. Lilies don’t win the award just for being pretty. They also have to demonstrate superior performance in dozens of criteria across at least five USDA hardiness zones.
Winning for both looks and hardiness, Dream Souffle features fluffy, double-petaled blooms that are a pastel rosy-pink blended with cream and flushed with yellow in the center.
The lily blooms in mid-season at 24 to 30 inches in height, above 16 to 20 inches of arching green deciduous foliage. It then repeat blooms, giving a total bloom period that ranges from 30 to 80days. Unlike some doubles, this flower has consistent, fluffy double blooms that can create an eye-catching focal point in any garden setting. Stunning eye appeal is combined in this variety with hardy growth habit and good rust resistance.
The lilies were tested by the All-American Daylily Selection Council (AADSC), an organization that performs rigorous evaluations of daylily cultivars, taking into account over 50 criteria, including rust resistance.
The designation can help today’s gardeners select the right lily from more than 40,000 different registered cultivars.
So far, nearly 6,000 hemerocallis (daylilies) available in commerce have been tested using methods that involve careful scientific methodology.
Daylilies are a perennial treasured by America’s gardeners. These sunny flowers supply bright drifts of color throughout the warmer months, and every year brings beautiful new varieties.
Thanks to such rigorous evaluations, gardeners can purchase All-Americans with confidence, knowing that these low-maintenance, high-impact, sun-loving beauties will thrive in backyard beds, front-walk borders or sundeck containers.
Past winners include:
• Black-Eyed Stella, best known for its performance as a nearly continuous bloomer.
• Lullaby Baby and Starstruck, honored for exquisite beauty and balance in the Exhibition category.
• Bitsy, which features a petite personality with a very powerful performance.
• Leebea Orange Crush, a rare daylily that exhibited such balanced performance it won in both the Landscape and Exhibition categories.
• Frankly Scarlet, a vibrant red that not only sustains but builds color intensity in the heat.
• Buttered Popcorn, a large buttery-gold bloom on sturdy 28- to 33-inch scapes. The golden beauty boasts nearly continuous blooming from mid-season into fall and up until frost.
• Persian Market, a large, showy salmon-pink with a rose halo on blooms 6 to 7 inches across. It produces loads of buds and has an exceptionally long bloom season in several zones.
• Lavender Vista, which pairs profuse lavender blooms with lush evergreen foliage.
• Summer Valentines, with striking pink blooms, a magenta eye and picotee edges.
For more information, visit www.allamericandaylilies.com.
(NAPS)—Hemerocallis, the scientific name for daylily, combines two Greek words meaning “beauty for a day,” but don’t be misled. The phrase refers to each individual bloom and doesn’t reflect the longterm, luscious color many new varieties display from early spring until late in the season. These versatile, easy-to-grow flowers provide ground cover, add focal points of visual interest, and fill your garden with drifts of color.
Scientifically proven superior performance nationwide!
The All-American Daylily Selection Council’s 2010 All-American Winner is “Toy Cameo,” which is also a winner in the Landscape Category. The benchmarks for excellence are based on the data collected from more than 6,000 varieties, and the winners are the rare cultivars that score highest across five USDA hardiness zones.
“Toy Cameo” packs powerful performance into a petite, perfectly proportioned plant. Its compact habit, graceful foliage, wellgroomed appearance and repeat blooming habit makes it a top choice in its color category for a low ground cover, border plantings and patio containers. The peppy, peachy-pink petals surround a chartreuse-green throat and harmonize well with tropical sunset colors in the landscape. The 31⁄2- inch blossoms are perched atop 15- to 20-inch bloom scapes, surrounded by tidy, vigorous, deciduous foliage.
Did You Know
This year, the All-American Daylily Selection Council testing program voted the “Toy Cameo” daylily the All-American Winner in the Landscape Category. Winners are the rare cultivars that score highest across five USDA hardiness zones. For more information, visit the All-American Daylily Selection Council at www.allamericandaylilies.com.
The initial blooming period is mid to late season, with repeat blooming providing late-season color. “Toy Cameo” increases rapidly, is rust resistant, thrives in USDA zones 4–9, and blooms an average of 45 to 80 days a year. “Toy Cameo” joins the ranks of 17 other All-American Daylily winners that have proven themselves in this unsurpassed test program, as well as in gardens across the nation. While growing daylilies is easy, here are a few tips that can help improve their performance:
1. Before planting, incorporate organic matter into loose soil. Daylilies require a minimum of six hours of direct sunlight daily for best performance. Daylilies will thrive in any good garden soil as long as it is well drained.
2. Plant in a hole 11⁄2 times the size of the root-ball and place the crown (where the roots and fan meet) of the plant at one inch below ground level. Space the plants 12 inches apart. Cover the roots and pack the soil firmly around the plant base.
3. Water thoroughly and keep watered well for the first 30 days. Give extra water if you experience especially warm weather; otherwise, daylilies should be happy with the same amount of water the rest of your garden receives.
4. In USDA zones 6 or cooler, protect your daylilies from hard freezes with one to two inches of mulch.
Other All-American Winners include Dream Souffle, Summer Valentine, Buttered Popcorn, Chorus Line and Frankly Scarlet. For more information on these and other winners, visit the All- American Daylily website at www.allamericandaylilies.com.
Did You Know
Although the scientific name for daylily, Hemerocallis, combines two Greek words for “beauty” and “day,” many of these flowers bloom for more than a day, providing luscious color from early in spring till late in the season.
