Custard Candy Daylily

Description:

Reblooming, designer daylily has light creamy-yellow trumpets with plum band around a yellow-green throat; pretty ruffled blooms; sturdy, strong, easy to care for, great grassy texture and form; good for the beginner gardener and the pro

Ornamental Features:

Custard Candy Daylily features bold creamy white trumpet-shaped flowers with buttery yellow overtones, yellow throats and a plum purple ring at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's grassy leaves remain green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Custard Candy Daylily is an herbaceous perennial with a shapely form and gracefully arching foliage. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Custard Candy Daylily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Groundcover

Plant Characteristics:

Custard Candy Daylily will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under typical garden conditions. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.