I now have 375 daylily cultivars growing in my yard. Yet if someone told me right now that I could keep only one, I’d be out the door with my shovel before they could even finish the sentence.
I’ve said it for the last 3 years in a row, but I’ll say it again. ‘Ruby Spider’ is still my favorite daylily. I grow daylilies with dazzling ruffles and exotic-looking daylilies with watermarks and stunning eyes, but the gigantic, red flowers of ‘Ruby Spider’ cannot be beat. And the plants just bloom and bloom and bloom.
I have several ‘Ruby Spider’ daylilies in my yard and each of them is planted next to ‘Mary Todd’, a lovely yellow daylily that brings out ‘Ruby Spider’s’ yellow eye and throat. ‘Mary Todd’ and ‘Ruby Spider’ start blooming at exactly the same time and keep the show going for almost 6 weeks.
Someday another cultivar will knock ‘Ruby Spider’ out of the number one spot, but for now it’s the standard by which all the other daylilies in my yard are judged.