Little Grapette Daylily

Ornamental Features:

Little Grapette Daylily features bold purple trumpet-shaped flowers with lemon yellow throats at the ends of the stems from late spring to early 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:

Little Grapette Daylily is an herbaceous perennial with a shapely form and gracefully arching foliage. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

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.

Little Grapette Daylily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Groundcover
• Border Edging

Plant Characteristics:

Little Grapette Daylily will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity extending to 16 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 18 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. 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.