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Blue and Pink Daylilies for Your Cottage Garden

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I started this July article series about daylilies (Hemerocallis) with lots of good links to information about how to grow them. Daylilies are one of my favorite garden plants and I think every garden, cottage garden style or otherwise, pro ar amateur, well established or just starting out, should have a bundle of them. They are so easy to grow and look fabulous so how can you resist?

Just pick some you like and plop them in your garden! (Except for Stella d'Oro, of course.) With that caveat, I really do hope hope you have lots of daylilies or "hem's" as the pro's like to call them, in your garden so you can enjoy them as much as I do. If you don't, add some now. It's never too late!

If I have one complaint (well, make that two, no let's be honest and call it three if we include my I hate Stella rant) there is still no blue daylily. No, "Prairie Blue Eyes" is NOT blue. It is misnamed. You learned your colors in kindergarten and so did I, but hybridizers either have a lot of senior moments on color or a lot of wishful thinking.

Or maybe they just observe the color at its best. Color is pretty much in the eye of the beholder and can depend on where and when you look at the plant, and sometimes on the lighting at the moment. Here's an example. Is this Ocean Ice quote unquote blue? You be the judge, but I'd have to say "not exactly" going by Crayola standards. And listen, it's not just me complaining here. Read someone else's in depth answer to Are there any blue daylilies? for yourself. HA!

Keep in mind that as yet there are no blues, and the original color range for daylilies is basically orange. So how are we doing on the pinks? Surprisingly well in some cases, not so well in others.

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