Common Name: Daylily
After 14 years of building up stock, we are pleased to offer you ‘Raspberry Eclipse’, from Chris Meyer, the hybridizer of ‘Going Bananas’. 5½” extremely showy, beautiful flowers are raspberry purple with a lavender purple band. Heavily ruffled, frilly edges highlight the lemon yellow picotee edge.
Daylilies can survive many harsh conditions that other plants cannot including: polluted city environments, slopes, poor and dry soils, near pavement that is salted in winter, and under Black Walnut trees (not affected by juglone).
Attracts bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. Rabbit resistant.
Characteristics (Compared to Other Daylilies)
- Midseason Bloomer, blooming in July.
- Rebloomer, producing a second set of flowers.
- Fragrant flowers.
- Semi-Evergreen foliage.
- Tetraploid with 44 chromosomes, twice as many as Diploids. Tetraploids tend to be bigger, stronger plants.
