In the spring I moved one of my daylilies from the front yard to the backyard. I pulled out the plant marker and brought it along as well. I had to redo most of the markers in the front yard earlier this year because winter weather and salt had rendered them unreadable. Apparently in the shuffle I managed to switch around a couple of daylily markers.
I did a double take one day when I walked by my newly-relocated daylily and saw this:
Here is what I was expecting:
Since I have almost 500 daylilies now and I was not up to the formidable task of trying to figure out this mystery daylily using a process of elimination, I was content to just let it remain a mystery. Ha, what a bunch of hooey! It drove me nuts all summer not knowing what the dark-eyed beauty’s name was.
I’m a very organized person, but sometimes my memory can’t keep up with all my organizational tricks. I didn’t remember until I stumbled upon it recently that I had created a computer folder with photos of all the daylilies I purchased in the last couple of years. I poked around and soon identified the mystery daylily as ‘Sabine Baur’.
This cultivar is an eye-catcher. It grows 25 inches tall with 6-inch cream-colored flowers that have a dark-purple eye and purple fringes on its curly petals. My plant bloomed for quite a few weeks this summer in partial-shade. That’s pretty good for a plant that just got relocated.
‘Sabine Baur’ is a semi-evergreen daylily that blooms early-to-midseason in the daylily season.