Daylily ‘Buttered Popcorn’ is one of the most reliable and easy perennials you can grow. The plants bloom for 2 months or more each summer. They are drought resistant and grow into nice, large clumps that can be divided into more plants for an even more spectacular show.
‘Buttered Popcorn’ grows 32 inches tall with 6-inch gold flowers that have a lovely fragrance.
Rudbeckia ‘Maya’ has fluffy (fully double) gold flowers and a brown button eye. ‘Maya’ is considered a dwarf rudbeckia because it only grows 18 to 20 inches tall.
In warmer zones the plants is considered a perennial, but in my Zone 5 garden I can’t always rely on rudbeckias to return year after year, so I grow them as annuals.
Maya has 4-inch flowers that appear all summer if you deadhead the spent blooms.
Technically Asiatic lily ‘Pisa’ is bright yellow, not gold, but the golden-orange blush on the petals and sepals gives the flowers an overall golden glow.
‘Pisa’ is a bulb that grows about 3 feet tall in sun or part shade. The flowers appear in late June and early July. ‘Pisa’ is hardy in Zones 3-8.
