Pinkapotamus is a compact, uniform daylily that produces an abundance of 4½-inch rosy pink blooms with nicely ruffled edges. What the flowers lack in size they make up for in number.
Well-branched scapes with high bud counts and strong rebloom keep it flowering from early summer into midsummer and beyond.
What it looks like
Flowers about 4½ inches across with rounded, ruffled petals in rich rosy pink and a yellow-green throat. Each bloom lasts a day, but many buds open in turn on branched scapes rising to about 26 inches above a fountain of long, arching, strap-shaped medium green leaves. The foliage clump is about 16 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. At peak bloom the clump is thickly covered with rosy pink flowers.
Growing it with lavender
Its rosy pink flowers pair softly with lavender's purple in the same 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. Deadhead regularly and pull spent scapes to keep new buds coming, and divide crowded clumps every few years.
At a glance
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Botanical name: Hemerocallis
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Flower color: Rosy pink
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Foliage: Medium green
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Growth habit: Arching, fountain-like clump
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Mature size: 24–26 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: Late-June
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Peak bloom: Mid-July
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Bloom pattern: Long 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.