Daylily Laws of Illusion

Hemerocallis Laws of Illusion has ivory self with a violet pattern eye and picotee, a green throat and gold violet edges. Not only is the flower stunning, but it has been the quintessential parent for breaking open fancy flowers with complex blue eyed patterns with wide, wide blue pattern edges. The violet eye and its surrounding burgundy band move around the petal edges as a very wide, multi-layered picotee. The violet picotee and wide ruffled edge is surrounded by a third or fourth gold edge. For anyone hybridizing for fancy patterned flowers, Laws of Illusion will blow open the doors. Gorgeous, and a must for pattern hybridizing!  This plant does not come from the tissue culture propagation but is divided manually from the parent clump.

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.