Heavenly United We Stand is a towering daylily with scapes over four feet tall topped by massive 9-inch blood red flowers with a vivid green throat. The color is sunfast, and the sheer size makes it a focal point in any border.
It blooms in midseason, and its scapes keep forming new buds at the tips, which stretches the flowering period. Plant it at the back of the border where its height can shine.
What it looks like
Enormous flowers about 9 inches across with broad, slightly ruffled tepals in deep sunfast blood red and a vivid green throat. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 54 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 32 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom huge red flowers stand high above the foliage at the back of the bed.
Growing it with lavender
Its great height and deep red flowers make a dramatic backdrop behind a lavender row in full sun and well-drained soil.
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. Snap off faded flowers for a tidy look, cut bare scapes to the base after bloom and divide crowded clumps every few years.
At a glance
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Botanical name: Hemerocallis
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Flower color: Sunfast blood red with a green throat
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Tall, arching clump
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Mature size: 4 ft–54 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: Single Flush
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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.