One of my flowerbeds got a little wild over the last couple of years, and I lost track of a couple of daylilies that got buried under exuberant foliage from other perennials.
Last year I dug and divided a lot of plants, so that flowerbed once again looks like its being tended to and not left over at some abandoned farmhouse.
I was happy to see the purple-red blooms of daylily ‘Sable Song’ standing tall once again.
![A photo of a 'Sable Song' daylily flower covered in raindrops.](https://emsgarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240623_182754501_iOS-Medium.jpg)
I’ve grown ‘Sable Song’ for almost 15 years now. It’s usually one of the first daylilies to bloom in my yard each summer.
‘Sable Song’ grows 26 inches tall with 5-inch, velvety flowers. This cultivar was registered in 1997, and one of its parent plants is the tough, eye-catching ‘Scarlet Orbit’—one of the heaviest-blooming daylilies of the 400 cultivars I grow each year.