Because the oak trees surrounding our yard continue to get taller and provide more shade, some of my daylilies needed to be relocated to a sunnier location. I put off the work for several years, but when they nearly stopped flowering completely, I knew it was time to act.
It’s nice to know that even when a daylily has stopped blooming because it needs digging and dividing or it isn’t getting enough sunshine to flower properly, it will still happily live on for years.
Beautiful ‘Blueberry Breakfast’ won an American Daylily Society award in 2002. The cultivar was registered in 1988.
I purchased my plant at a daylily society sale in 2006, and it quickly became one of my favorites. The official registered flower color is “slate purple with wide magenta purple midrib and a deep purple eyezone above green throat.”
Slowly over time my plant received less and less sunlight and eventually got buried by more enthusiastic perennials.
I moved ‘Blueberry Breakfast’ after the blooming season in 2023. This year it was finally back to its old self, blooming from early July into late August.
‘Blueberry Breakfast’ grows only 22 inches tall, so it’s great as a showstopper for the front of a border.