Strawberry Candy Daylily, Fairfield Glade. June, 2008.
Several days ago my friend Mildred posted about strawberries on her site, http://nalleyvalley.blogspot.com/. You can read her strawberry post HERE.
In her blog Mildred talked about eating strawberries and she gave a couple of recipes. But at the end of her post she had a picture of a daylily, “Strawberry Fields Forever”. With a name like that, it certainly fit the theme of her post. But we have another daylily that would fit Mildred’s theme — Strawberry Candy, pictured above.
We have several daylilies in our yard and we really enjoy them. In many ways daylilies are a perfect perennial because they are available in a wide variety of colors, shapes and sizes. They are also very easy to grow and require very little care.
Each blossom on a daylily lasts for a single day (hence the name). But there are usually many flower buds on each daylily flower stalk, and many stalks in each clump of plants. So the flowering period of any one clump is often several weeks. In addition to this daylilies are vigorous growers growers and multiply quite quickly.
We only had one clump of Strawberry Candy last summer. We’re looking forward to many more in the years ahead.
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