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Evaluating Designer Daylilies™

The Designer Daylily™ Collection

Selected by daylily experts for their superior blossoms and exemplary performance, Designer Daylilies™ represent the very best traits daylilies have to offer.  Gardeners across North America can rely on these healthy plants to create a beautiful display in the landscape year after year.

Representing the best in daylily genetics, experts agree that Designer Daylilies™ deliver the following benefits:

  • Create a breathtaking display in the landscape with blossoms of superior form, substance, and sunfast color
  • Extend the bloom time with heavily budded varieties
  • Perform reliably, even in adverse weather conditions, with blossoms that open consistently
  • Display healthy, pest resistant foliage and vigorous growth all season
  • Return faithfully year after year, even in northern gardens, as a result of their complete winter hardiness.  
 

The Designer Daylily™ Collection was developed by experts at Walters Gardens, Inc., one of the nation's largest wholesale daylily growers.  The goal of the program is to help people identify which daylily varieties, out of the thousands that are available today, possess superior characteristics and deliver reliable performance.  Cultivars are rigorously tested and evaluated for many years before being considered for inclusion in the Designer Collection.  During that time, they are compared to hundreds of other cultivars by daylily experts and hybridizers who are looking for new and improved traits.  Only those that deliver all of the benefits defined for the collection make the cut.

Planting the best varieties is half the battle when it comes to perennials. When you plant Designer Daylilies in your garden, you can be confident that they will deliver an exemplary performance with little effort on your behalf. Just be sure to plant them in the right place to start: a sunny spot with average, well-drained soil.