A way to add more color to your gardening palette is by planting daylilies. They come in so many gorgeous, interesting and unusual colors.
If you’re looking for something really dark to balance out a lot of yellow and oranges, there are two daylily cultivars that fit the bill. The first one is ‘Jungle Beauty’.
The flowers are purple, almost to the point of being black, and they have a large neon-yellow throat.
The 5.5″ flowers appear on 30-inch-tall scapes and the plants bloom in the middle of the daylily season.
The second dark daylily is ‘Sleepy Hollow’. It also looks almost black—especially in the shade or on cloudy days.
‘Sleepy Hollow’ has 5-inch black-burgundy flowers with a small, yellow-green throat. This daylily grows 36 inches tall, so it makes a good back-of-the-border plant. It blooms in the middle of the daylily season.
Both of these daylilies look amazing planted next to yellow, gold or orange flowers, but they’ll blend happily with just about any color in the garden.