(Daylily, El Desperado Daylily)

The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and beauty. Late in the season, ‘El Desperado’ offers many butter yellow flowers with wine purple edges and eyezones and yellow-green throats. They are day-blooming and arise from tall clumps of green strap-like leaves that become dormant in winter.

Daylilies are clump-forming and often spread slowly via rhizomes. The flowers have six tepals (showy petal-like sepals) that vary widely in size, shape and color. The...

(Daylily, Elegant Candy Daylily)

The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and beauty. In early to midsummer, ‘Elegant Candy’ offers many fragrant, pink flowers with rose eyezones, green throats and ruffled edges. They are day-blooming and arise from neat clumps of green strap-like leaves that become dormant in winter. If well cared for and regularly deadheaded, this daylily may rebloom.

Daylilies are clump-forming and often spread slowly via rhizomes. The flowers have six tepals (showy...

(Daylily, Elizabeth Frances Woodhall Daylily)

Fragrant, peachy orange-yellow flowers the size of grapefruits occur on the Elizabeth Frances Woodhall daylily by midsummer. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. The hybrid tetraploid ‘Elizabeth Frances Woodhall’ produces flowers atop a tall stem called a scape. The six petal-like tepals are round, ruffle-edged and overlap. They are a streaked light blend of yellow and orange-peach hues with a green base to create the flower's throat. They...

(Daylily, Ella Thomas Riggins Daylily)

About the size of baseballs, the lavender and green-yellow flowers of the Ella Thomas Riggins daylily greet the garden in late spring to early summer, depending on climate. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. 'Ella Thomas Riggins' was bred by E.L. Cunningham and introduced in 1972.

This hybrid diploid produces flowers atop a rather short, branching naked stem called a scape. The scapes rise from clumps of strappy green leaves that die...

(Daylily, Embers of Vesuvius Daylily)

When viewed head-on down the throat, the orange flowers of the Embers of Vesuvius daylily look triangular. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. 'Ella Thomas Riggins' was bred by Floridian Ottis Houston and introduced in 1992. Depending on climate, it blooms mid-spring to very early summer, with a reblooming several weeks later by summer's end.

This hybrid tetraploid produces flowers atop a branching naked stem called a scape. The scapes...

(Daylily, Emperor's Choice Daylily)

There is such a thing as a nocturnal daylily. Rather than the flower opening in the morning, the ruffled, a lemon yellow bloom of 'Emperor's Choice' opens in late afternoon and remains open overnight, closing by noon the next day. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. The hybrid tetraploid ‘Emperor's Choice’ produces flowers atop a tall stem called a scape. The six petal-like tepals are round, ruffle-edged and overlap. Flower scapes rise...

(Daylily, Empress Seal Daylily)

With flowers that remain open for at least 16 hours, the Empress Seal daylily also manages to produce an encore of bicolor flowers from late spring to early summer. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. The hybrid tetrapolid ‘Empress Seal’ has grapefruit-size flowers that are yellow-centered and coral-lavender. The petal-like tepals have tiny-wave edges and hints of white around the yellow in the throat. These flowers open during the day...

(Daylily, Enchanted Crown Daylily)

Tiny ruffled edges on Enchanted Crown daylily's light yellow flowers look refreshing and dainty. Faint hints of pale green undertones accompany the yellow. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. 'Enchanted Crown' was bred by Gloria Hite and introduced in 1985. Depending on climate, it blooms mid-spring to very early summer, correlating to an early to midseason flowering period in the daylily realm.

This hybrid tetraploid produces flowers...

(Daylily, Enchanted Elf Daylily)

Perfect for the front of a flower border or to fill a fairy or pixie garden theme, the Enchanted Elf daylily produces yellowish flowers only the size of chicken eggs. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. The shin-high 'Enchanted Elf' was bred and introduced in 1979. Depending on climate, it flowers in mid-spring to very early summer and reblooms in early autumn.

This hybrid diploid produces flowers atop a short, branching naked stem called...

(Daylily, Entrapment Daylily)

Regarded as a "blue" daylily, the Entrapment daylily's flowers lack true blue pigmentation and look more plum-violet with only hints of purplish blue. The daylily is a popular perennial revered for its reliability, ease of growth and floral beauty. 'Entrapment' was bred by Dutchman Jarad Heemskerk and introduced in 2006. Depending on climate, it flowers in late mid-spring to very early summer and reblooms several weeks later.

This hybrid diploid produces 6-inch (15 cm) flowers atop a branching...