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Showing posts with label candelabra flower scapes daylilies. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Candelabra Flower Scapes on Enjoy 24/7™ Daylily Collection



Bahama Pink Sky(TM) Daylily, PPAF
Daylilies (Hemerocallis species and cultivars) are reliable, easy-care perennials useful for adding color to perennial beds, shrub borders or for erosion control on slopes. Dayliles are ideal perennials, tolerant of most soils, of wet weather and drought, of sun and shade, handle heat stress well, are pretty free of pests and make a carefree addition to the landscape.

Their colorful, trumpet-shaped blooms each last only a single day, but since each clump produces many buds, the colorful effect is long-lasting. In addition, the Enjoy 24/7™ Daylily Collection  from Garden Debut®  has multiple flowering periods throughout the season, beginning in April and continuing though Thanksgiving(!).

Candelabra Flower Scape
Candelabra or Branched Flower Scapes
Since the total number of flowers and resulting bloom season of a well-established plant depends on the number of buds, a flower stalk that is loaded with buds has a long bloom period. The scape is the entire flower stalk arising from the center of the clump known as the crown; a tall, sturdy flower stalk without leaves but having a few green bracts as well as multiple flower buds. Some scapes are branched and display flowers to advantage and these are called branched scapes or ‘candelabra scapes’.

Pictured at right is a candelabra scape of Bahama Pink Sky™ Daylily  blooming once again in early September with multiple flower stalks or scapes (6) distributed among two clumps. Each scape carries multiple buds so the perennials are able to bloom for a long period. In particular, Enjoy 24/7™ Daylilies http://www.gardendebut.com/enjoy-247-daylilies.php are exceptional bloomers, beginning in April and continuing through Thanksgiving.

Multiple Branched Scapes
Pictured at left is a photo of 2 clumps of Bahama Pink Sky™ Daylily taken the first week of September in my Atlanta garden, with many scapes loaded with buds. 

To purchase the Enjoy 24/7™ Daylily Collection from Garden Debut, ask your retailer http://www.gardendebut.com/retailers.php to offer them this fall. Remember the horticultural slogan, “Fall is for Planting” and plant some this month.