Sometimes you just need a burst of warm color in your flowerbeds, and orange does the trick. Orange daylilies are easy to grow, and if you pick the right cultivars they’ll bloom for weeks or even a couple of months.
My favorite orange daylily is ‘Mauna Loa’:
Several of these plants growing together make an impressive display, and the flowers keep coming for almost 2 months. Because it’s a strong grower, I’ve probably divided and replanted more ‘Mauna Loa’ daylilies in my yard than any other of the hundreds of daylily cultivars that I grow.
The flowers really glow in the sun—they almost hurt your eyes, and ‘Mauna Loa’ has a lovely fragrance.
If you want something a little darker-orange, try ‘Alabama Jubilee’. This cultivar grows 30″ tall with 7-inch red-orange flowers:
‘Coleman Hawkins’ is bright orange with a lovely yellow throat. You can’t miss this one in the garden because the flowers are huge—8 inches across:
And the blooming fool of this bunch is ‘Margaret Seawright’. This overachiever is a yellow and orange bi-tone that grows only 24 inches tall with 4.5″ blooms. But those blooms just keep coming and coming. This is another daylily that I love to divide and replant in other spaces because it’s so reliable and such a heavy bloomer:
