Daylily 'Flore Pleno'

I’m not sure what plant some of the comments here are on. Roadside daylilies are single pearled with no red and the petals aren’t re...Read Morecurved. . H. Fulva Flore Pleno and H. Fulva Kwanso are both double orange with red on the petals. However, flore pleno has more petals and they are rather neatly arranged. Kwanso has less and they are kinda mixed up in the center.

“Flore Pleno’ is sometimes confused with another daylily, H. fulva ‘Kwanso’. Both are double, and both have orange flower with red marks on the petals. However, the most clear distinguishing feature is that ‘Flore Pleno’ has 15 to 18, strongly recurved petals usually arranged rather neatly, while ‘Kwanso’ has seven to twelve petals, often in a rather muddled-looking arrangement. Neither ever produced seed, although both have partially fertile pollen.”

A neighbor gave me some fans of these daylilies that she found growing on the side of a road here in rural NC. They are absolutely stunn...Read Moreing when in bloom. At first I had them growing in full sun then when I had to thin them out I moved them to a sun/shade area in the back yard. Now my pecan trees are fully foliated and keep my yard in mostly shade all summer. And yet these beauties continue to bloom! Sun, shade, poor or fertile soil, always put on a superb show. I've never fertilized or sprayed for bugs, never even water the poor things. They just thrive on what ever Mother Nature provides. They DO share the love easily and rapidly and every year have to give many of them away, like fifty at a time, so if anyone wants any of these, please let me know! If I took better care of them and actually paid better attention to their situations I can't even imagine what they would look like- how can you beat these beauties! They are all pretty neglected as I can't spend as much time in the garden as I once used to. They bloom at the same time as my Endless Summer hydrangeas, which, strangely, bloom in three different colors- pink, pale purple, and blue- don't know why. But they look gorgeous together.

Double, Fulvous.

This is the very first daylily I had ever had. it is what had spiked my interest in daylilies some years ago. I moved into a small old ea...Read Morerly 1900's farm house here in rural NC, and their was a huge circle of these in the back yard that were neglected and I was told were their since the 1940's or early 50's. it took me three different seasons to weed the poison oak vines out of them, as some of these poison oak vines roots were 15 feet long! i made the mistake of weeding them after late winter and early sping, in the early summer this year and got a fungul disease on some of the leaves from disturbing the roots while they were wet and growing in the vegatative stage as it is extremely humid anyway in the southeast..luckily the drought this summer cured it 100% withought any toxic fungicides ,but very few blooms this yr. so DO NOT weed these ATER late winter/ early spring!!!! you will set yourself up for big trouble. These are truely old fashioned heirloom beauties!! and well worth any work in keeping them imaculate and manicured. mike.