Details

Strawberry 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 plant, 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.

Strawberry Candy Daylily is recommended for the following landscape applications:

  • Mass Planting
  • General Garden Use
  • Groundcover

Features

Strawberry Candy Daylily features bold coral-pink trumpet-shaped flowers with yellow throats and cherry red centers at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its grassy leaves remain green in color throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Care

Planting & Growing

Strawberry 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. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 18 inches apart. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This plant 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 particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Attracts Butterflies
Family Daylily
Flower Color Coral
Bloom Time Early to Mid Summer
Foliage Color Green
Genus Hemerocallis
Growth Rate Medium
Hardiness Zone 2b
Landscape Uses Massing, Garden, Groundcover
Light Needs Full Sun, Partial Shade
Mature Height 18 inches (24 inches with the flowers)
Mature Width 24 inches
Prune Time Spring Cleanup
Water Needs Dry to Moist