.png) Hemerocallis 'Little Minor' $10.95
- common names: daylily
- flowering season: mid spring to early summer, with rebloom in autumn
- height: 1 foot tall or less
- Light requirements: full sun or a half day of sunlight
- Soil requirements: average soil is adequate although it likes a rich soil
- Water requirments: likes more than an average amount of water
- Growth habit: grows as a slowly widening clump
- How to propagate: divide in spring or early summer; either dig out a rooted piece of the plant from the edge of a clump or divide the entire plant
- Leaf type: small-scale, arching leaves
- Ways to use it: as a bright foreground plant in a flower bed, edging a garden pathway, in a small table-top planter
- Special characteristics: everything about the plant is small in scale
- Other points of interests: each flower lasts for 24 hours, however a full sized plant produces many flowers at a time
The nursery who sold us our first plant of this petite daylily in 1992, Montrose Nursery in Hillsborough, North Carolina, is no longer offering plants by mail-order. It is one of several fine nurseries from the 1980's and 90's that we happily remember and miss. To quote their catalog, “we are delighted to be able to offer this charming daylily. It is an old cultivar, small enough to be suitable for a rock garden with scapes only 1' or less. It blooms very early in mid-spring and then again in the fall with yellow, fragrant flowers.” USDA Zones 3 - 10. |
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