A well-established daylily plant can give you dozens and dozens of flowers (I’ve counted over 120 buds on some of my 3-year-old plants this year), and most of them are beautiful. But every once in awhile a flower will get the uglies.
Sometimes the flower will be all blotchy:
Other times it won’t open all the way:
Or the flower might look like it was awakened rudely in the middle of the night and needs more sleep:
And sometimes, a bloom can be downright frightening:
Here’s a new “ugly” for me. This daylily bloomed with 3 petals and no sepals. Very freaky:
This is what ‘Siloam Double Classic’ is supposed to look like:
My plant decided it wasn’t happy being double and wanted to try the singles market. Luckily it was still a pretty flower:
Rest assured these oddities and deformities are the exception, and the next day the same plant that gave you something strange or hideous could give you something gorgeous.
