Hemerocallis ‘Elegant Candy’

One of the Most Fragrant Ever!

Frilly, flouncy ruffled blooms really catch the eye.

Winner of multiple awards and an absolute showstopper in any garden, this intensely fragrant Daylily is hardy from the far north to the deep south. If you have a spare foot of soil left in your sunny garden, devote it to the glorious ruffled blooms of ‘Elegant Candy’.The flowers measure about 4 inches wide, but tend to look larger because of their intense ruffling. Pink with a large reddish-carmine eyezone, they jump out from the garden on plants about 2 feet high and wide.

Expect the first flush in early summer, with a repeat toward season’s end.’Elegant Candy’ is a dormant tetraploid, meaning that it’s got twice the chromosomes of diploid Daylilies, for greater garden vigor and flower power. It’s dormant in cold climates, so you can grow it all the way through zone 3 in the north without worrying about frostkill — the aboveground growth will vanish with the first hard frost, and the plant will pop back up better than ever in spring!But the best feature of this Daylily is its sweet scent.

Many Daylilies bear a ghost of a fragrance, but ‘Elegant Candy’s’ is rich, bold, and unmistakeable. A pleasure in the Daylily garden, it perfumes its less fortunate cousins!Like all Daylilies, ‘Elegant Candy’ is quite happy in punishing sun, heat, and humidity. Once established in your garden, it’s even drought-tolerant, though it will bloom its best when given adequate water. Low-maintenance and foolproof to grow, this perennial can be divided every 4 or 5 years into even more glorious plants!Space plants about 3 feet apart in any well-drained garden soil, and pamper them the first year to get their root system established. Easy and so beautiful! Zones 3-9.”