I wasn’t sure I even wanted to grow daylily ‘Margaret Seawright’ when a friend gave me a small clump from her plant a few years ago, but this cultivar has really impressed me. I now consider it one of my all-time favorite daylilies.
‘Margaret Seawright’ has always been a reliable bloomer, but this summer my plant behaved like it was on steroids. Every day for more than 5 weeks I was greeted with oodles of cheerful orange and yellow flowers.
‘Margaret Seawright’ grows 24 inches tall with 5-inch blooms, so it makes a flashy front-of-the-border plant. I have mine growing next to several bright-yellow daylilies which creates a nice sunny, citrus blend.
Growing on Margaret’s other side is another orange daylily that blooms like crazy— ‘Bahama Butterscotch‘. I didn’t intend to have the two oranges next to one another but there was a mix-up with their plant tags when I was relocating the latter. I was afraid the flowers would clash, but they complement one another quite nicely. The plants work as a team to jazz up a corner of my yard that would otherwise be pretty bland.
This is an older cultivar (1985), so it might be more difficult to find, but it’s certainly worth the trouble if you’re looking for weeks and weeks of colorful blooms each summer from a carefree plant.