Daring Deception has 5½-inch dusty cream-pink flowers with a large, dark purple eye and green throat. The overlapping petals create an unusually shaped eye zone, and a dark purple pie-crust edge outlines each petal.
It starts blooming in early July and reblooms, with semi-evergreen foliage. The dramatic pattern makes it a conversation piece in any sunny bed.
What it looks like
Flowers about 5½ inches across with overlapping, rounded petals in dusty cream-pink, a large dark plum-purple eye, a dark purple picotee on pie-crust ruffled petal edges, smooth sepals and a green throat. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 24 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 14 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom cream-pink flowers with dark eyes stand out clearly above the leaves.
Growing it with lavender
Its dark purple eye ties in with lavender's color, and it grows happily beside lavender in 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: Dusty cream-pink with a dark purple eye and picotee
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Arching, fountain-like clump
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Mature size: 24 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.
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