Kansas Kitten is a compact reblooming daylily with intricate 5-inch lavender purple flowers marked by dark purple eyes. It is a solid rebloomer with lots of buds on well-branched scapes.
The flowers open early in the morning and carry a light fragrance. At 22 inches it is well suited to the front of the border.
What it looks like
Flowers about 5 inches across in lavender purple with a darker purple eye band and a green-yellow throat, with lightly ruffled petals. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 22 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 13 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom lavender-purple flowers crowd the top of the compact clump.
Growing it with lavender
Its lavender-purple flowers blend seamlessly with lavender and suit the front of a sunny, well-drained lavender bed.
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: Lavender purple with a dark purple eye
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Arching, fountain-like clump
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Mature size: 22 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.