Having a Red Garden is a great excuse to collect the daylilies that would make even Dolly Parton blush: Gigantic flowers—five or six inches is waaaay puny: I'm talking 8, 10, 11 inches here. Flagrantly juvenile color combinations too, with yellow AND orange AND red all seeing who can shout the loudest. Shade your eyes: Here's the smallest and most tasteful of the bunch, 'Open Hearth.'

The flowers are about six inches, on shortish stems so numerous that on some mornings the whole airspace above the foliage is solid blossom. And like all daylilies, thankfully, Open Hearth isn't dampened one bit by my high water table, let alone a winter-flooded front-of-the-bed location.
As Dolly would exclaim."Whoo-EEE!" This is one powerfully- proud perennial.


