Blazing Glory has 6-inch golden yellow flowers with a bold burgundy red eye and a matching picotee edge. Unlike many picotee daylilies whose edges blur or fade, its wide margin stays crisp along the whole length of each petal.
Well-branched scapes carry a high bud count for a long midsummer show, with rebloom later on. The lightly fragrant flowers draw hummingbirds, and the plant tolerates tough spots, including near black walnut trees.
What it looks like
Large flowers about 6 inches across with broad golden yellow petals, a bold burgundy red eye band and a wide, sharply defined burgundy red picotee edge running the full length of each ruffled petal, around a green-yellow throat. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 32 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 19 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom many gold-and-burgundy flowers are open along the branched scapes.
Growing it with lavender
The gold-and-burgundy flowers add warm contrast behind lavender and share its preference for full sun and good drainage.
Care
Grow in full sun to light part shade (at least six hours of sun for the best bloom) in average, well-drained soil; once established it handles heat, clay and dry spells. Hardy in zones 3 to 9. Remove spent scapes promptly to encourage a later round of flowers, and divide crowded clumps every few years.
At a glance
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Botanical name: Hemerocallis
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Flower color: Golden yellow with a burgundy red eye and picotee edge
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Arching, fountain-like clump
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Mature size: 32 in tall × 18–24 in wide
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USDA hardiness zones: 3–9
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Light: full sun, part sun to part shade
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Bloom start: Early-July
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Peak bloom: Mid-July
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Bloom pattern: Repeat Blooming
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Deer resistance: Susceptible
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Pollinator value: Good
Sizes and shipping
Dormant bare-root plant, sold in boxes of 25 per variety (order in multiples of 25). Bare-root plants ship or are picked up March 1–May 31 only. They are soil-free, so they may ship to every state in that window. Dormant plants often show little or no top growth on arrival; plant or heel them in promptly.