Daylily Blackberries and Cream

Hemerocallis Blackberries and Cream. Introduced by Trimmer in 2003, this award-winning daylily (Honorable Mention Award, 2007) offers stunning cream-lavender blooms with a bold dark purple eye above a vibrant green throat. Each flower measures about 10-12 cm in diameter, creating a striking display in your garden. With a height of 60-70 cm, the plant features 5-way branching and a generous bud count of 30 per stem, ensuring a continuous and impressive bloom throughout midsummer.

Hemerocallis 'Blackberries and Cream' is a tetraploid variety, known for its robust growth and re-blooming habit. It produces triple-branched scapes, forming up to 30 buds per stalk. This resilient daylily not only delivers an eye-catching performance in mid-to-late summer but also reblooms in late summer to early fall. It thrives in a range of garden conditions, being drought-tolerant, resistant to pests and diseases, and ideal for attracting pollinators. The evergreen foliage adds texture to garden beds year-round, making it perfect for borders and foundation plantings. Parentage: Celebration of Angels X Dragons Eye.

How to grow daylilies

Reserve full sunlight or light shade area in your garden to plant daylilies. Daylilies like sunshine so much but be careful, in hot areas, they do not grow well in completely dry soil on sunny place. Daylilies also like an average amount of moisture in the soil but will not be happy in soils that are water logged. Give them water regularly during their first one or two growing seasons. Their flowers will be larger and will bloom richer if regularly watered in the first part of the season.

When in bloom, feel free to cut the flowers for bouquets or even decorating of salads (as the flowers are edible). This will not injure your plants. While each flower blooms only a single day, choose stems with several larger buds.

After blooming has finished, leave the foliage in place, don't cut it off. The leaves will gather sunlight and will provide nourishment for the next year's show. Your daylilies will need rest for a few months, before beginning the next growing season.