A Gallery of Top Daylilies

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Few perennials offer the versatility of daylilies. We've pulled together a gallery of great, easy-to-grow daylily varieties to help you select the best ones for your garden.

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'Little Grapette'

'Little Grapette' daylily

This award-winning miniature daylily offers lots of purple flowers in early and midsummer.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 2 inches

Plant size: 1 foot tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Catherine Woodbery'

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An old, time-tested favorite, 'Catherine Woodbery' offers delightfully fragrant, pale-pink flowers.

Bloom season: Midsummer

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Country Melody'

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In midsummer, this award-winning variety erupts with fragrant, bright pink blooms that fade to yellow at the throat.

Bloom season: Midsummer

Flower size: 5 ½ inches

Plant size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Fellow'

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It's hard to go wrong with this great variety: The large, purple blooms appear in profusion.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 7 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Abluted Pink'

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'Abluted Pink' offers deep pink blooms through the summer on a practically no-maintenance plant.

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 6 ½ inches

Plant size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Rose Swan'

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An award-winning variety, 'Rose Swan' features large, rose-pink flowers in midsummer.

Bloom season: Midsummer

Flower size: 6 ½ inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Charles Johnston'

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'Charles Johnston' offers loads of fragrant, cherry-red blooms (accented with a green throat).

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Karen Sue'

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This variety features beautiful pink bicolored blooms; the ruffly petals are rose-pink and the sepals are a contrasting creamy-white.

Bloom season: Midsummer

Flower size: 5 ½ inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Wineberry Candy'

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'Wineberry Candy' is one of the most popular daylilies—and it's no wonder. The orchid-pink petals are accented by a rich purple throat.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 4 ½ inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Broadway Magic'

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This rose-pink daylily offers beautiful flowers that fade to a green throat and tend to rebloom.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 5 ½ inches

Plant size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Iona Pink Promise'

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A top variety, 'Iona Pink Promise' is favored for its large, pink blooms.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 5 inches

Plant size: 2 feet

Zones: 3-9

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'Raspberry Lehi'

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This great variety offers lots of charming, fuchsia-pink flowers with green throats.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 5 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Bright Sunset'

'Bright Sunset' daylily

This boldly colored daylily is favored for its fragrant, coppery-orange blooms accented with golden yellow tones.

Bloom season: Early summer

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 3 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Open Hearth'

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When lilies start to die back, you can cut them.

For gigantic, eye-catching flowers, grow 'Open Hearth'. Its coppery red flowers will be the centerpiece of your garden.

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 9 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Pat Mercer'

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An eye-catching variety, 'Pat Mercer' offers bright orange flowers that fade to green at the throat.

Bloom season: Midsummer

Flower size: 7 inches

Plant size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Hyperion'

'Hyperion' daylily

An old variety from the 1920s, 'Hyperion' is a classic for its ease of growth and clusters of fragrant, lemon-yellow flowers.

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 5 inches

Plant size: 40 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Mormon Spider'

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This variety offers massive brown flowers edged in bright yellow. The large blooms and narrow petals make this a showstopper!

Bloom season: Midsummer

Flower size: 8 ½ inches

Plant size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Siloam Space Age'

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'Siloam Space Age' offers large, bright yellow blooms over an extended season.

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Stella de Oro'

'Stella d'Oro' daylily

Perhaps the best-known daylily of all time, 'Stella de Oro' offers masses of golden flowers all through the summer.

Bloom season: Early to late summer

Flower size: 2 ½ inches

Plant size: 1 foot tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Creepy Crawler'

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Don't let its name scare you away; 'Creepy Crawler' offers large and fragrant golden-yellow flowers with narrow petals.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Lenox'

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'Lenox' offers large beautiful creamy yellow blooms that fade to a creamy green throat.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Mary Todd'

'Mary Todd' daylily

A popular variety among daylily experts, 'Mary Todd' offers large, ruffled, golden-yellow blooms early in the summer.

Bloom season: Early summer

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

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'Lady Elizabeth'

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Another old-time variety, it's no wonder 'Lady Elizabeth' is still popular. The pale yellow (near-white) flowers appear in midsummer.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 5 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Joan Senior'

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About as close to pure white as daylilies come, 'Joan Senior' offers creamy, pale yellow blooms.

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Gentle Shepherd'

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Another top-rated variety, 'Gentle Shepherd' offers near-white flowers in early and midsummer.

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 5 inches

Plant size: 29 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Cherry Cheeks'

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This award-winning variety features bold, cherry-pink flowers in mid to late summer.

Bloom season: Mid to late summer

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Siloam Merle Kent'

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An award-winning variety, 'Siloam Merle Kent' offers orchid-pink blooms with purple throats.

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Flower size: 3 ½ inches

Plant size: 18 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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'Apple Tart'

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'Apple Tart' offers rich red flowers early in the season. They look as great as they taste!

Bloom season: Early to midsummer

Flower size: 6 inches

Plant size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

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