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Re-Blooming Day Lilies

Making It Grow Minute

  Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. In 1975 Walter Jablonski registered the first ever “re-blooming” day lily – Stella de Oro. Although many day lily cultivars bloom for four to six weeks, a re-blooming daylily may flower from spring until frost. Stella de Oro, more commonly called Stella d’Oro, is a small orange day lily blooming from May through the summer. Happy Returns, a yellow re-bloomer, followed Stella, and now re-bloomers come in many colors. One group is called the Happy Ever Appsters. Happy means that the day lily re-blooms – just like Happy Returns does. Ever means you can expect flowers from summer until frost. And Appster gives credit to Darrel Apps, one of the most famous day lily breeders. One of his prized cultivars is Apricot Sparkles which has a special feature -- diamond dusting – like white glitter --on the petals – which we saw in many blossoms at the official Hemerocallis display garden we visited in Lexington.

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Amanda McNulty is a Clemson University Extension Horticulture agent and the host of South Carolina ETV’s Making It Grow! gardening program. She studied horticulture at Clemson University as a non-traditional student. “I’m so fortunate that my early attempts at getting a degree got side tracked as I’m a lot better at getting dirty in the garden than practicing diplomacy!” McNulty also studied at South Carolina State University and earned a graduate degree in teaching there.