The Band Played On Daylily
Hemerocallis 'The Band Played On'
Plant Height: 18 inches
Flower Height: 24 inches
Spacing: 14 inches
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Hardiness Zone: 3
Brand: Walters Gardens
Description:
Beautiful rosy-purple blooms with contrasting deep purple eyes and matching dark purple ruffled edges; great grassy texture and form; tetraploid; a highly noticeable color addition to the garden or border; early season bloomer; tetraploid
Ornamental Features
The Band Played On Daylily features bold lightly-scented violet trumpet-shaped flowers with deep purple throats and deep purple edges at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its grassy leaves remain light green in color throughout the season.
Landscape Attributes
The Band Played On Daylily is an herbaceous perennial with a shapely form and gracefully arching foliage. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.
The Band Played On Daylily is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Mass Planting
- General Garden Use
- Groundcover
- Container Planting
Planting & Growing
The Band Played On Daylily will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 14 inches apart. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!
This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist locations, and should do just fine under typical garden conditions. It may require supplemental watering during periods of drought or extended heat. This plant does not require much in the way of fertilizing once established. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
The Band Played On Daylily is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It can be used either as 'filler' or as a 'thriller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, depending on the height and form of the other plants used in the container planting. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.
