I
came to daylilies by way of perennial gardens featuring mixed borders.
Although the trend in daylilies for decades was to make them 24
inches tall, I
saw the need to develop daylilies to use as scrim plants, and at the
back and middle of the border. I love to see six foot daylilies
blooming in
front of tropical looking foliage like Macleaya cordata and Miscanthus
floridulus. The thrid image down on this page shows
A.B. Stout's Hemerocallis altissima based cultivar "Autumn Minaret"
with such architectural foliage. The very large leaves in
the foreground are Crambe cordifolia, the blue flowers are platycodon.
If you would like to see some of the giant daylilies I am
developing for such use in mixed borders please visit this link.
