The 39 Best Daylilies to Grow in Your Garden

Whether you’re searching for the best reblooming daylilies, the longest blooming daylily, or older varieties that never disappoint, you’ll find the best daylilies to grow in this guide.

'All American Chief'

PETER KRUMHARDT

This beauty is a top choice for many daylily growers. You'll want to add it to your list of favorites for your daylily-filled garden plan. Its 9-inch flowers are flaming red with a yellow throat and they rebloom often.

Bloom Season: Early to Mid-Season

Size: 32 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Bela Lugosi'

BRYAN E. MCCAY

If you love purple in the garden, you're going to love the 6-inch blooms of this dayllily. Its blooms are deep purple and have bright green throats. This very popular award winner adds variety to any garden.

Bloom Season: Mid-Season

Size: 33 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Dorothy and Toto'

JANICE WOOD

You'll do a double take when you see this award-winning daylily. It looks like a double lily and is slightly fragrant. The 6-inch ruffled flowers are a creamy, rose-peach color and have a green throat.

Bloom Season: Mid-Season

Size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 4-10

'Fooled Me'

JANICE WOOD

What's not to love about this vibrant daylily? This popular bright yellow cultivar with a dramatic red eye zone and green throat is sure to attract attention.

Bloom Season: Early to Mid-Season

Size: 24 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Heavenly Angel Ice'

JANICE WOOD

If you want to add texture to your garden, grow this popular daylily. It's a strong rebloomer with ruffled petals and sepals. The perennial's long, narrow petals form large white blooms that are 8 inches across with yellow and lime-green throats.Bloom Season: Mid-to-Late Season

Size: 36 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Heavenly United We Stand'

CLAUDE CARPENTER

Plant this tall daylily as a dramatic focal point in your garden. Its 9-inch blood-red blooms have a green throat but don't have a fragrance.

Bloom Season: Mid-Season

Size: 51 inches tall

Zones: 3-10

'Primal Scream'

DENNY SCHROCK

Create a pretty pollinator garden with this popular, fiery orange-tangerine daylily. Its ruffled petals will make a dramatic statement whether you plant it in a sunny perennial border or a container garden on your patio.

Bloom Season: Mid-Season to Late

Size: 34 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Rose F. Kennedy'

MARLENE HARMON

This popular daylily with its vibrant green throat has been the parent of many other award-winning daylilies. Its green 7½-inch green flowers are framed with a wide purple border.

Bloom Season: Mid-Season

Size: 29 inches tall

Zones: 4-9

'Ruby Spider'

BRYAN E. MCCAY

Catch a glimpse of this popular daylily early in the morning when its large, 9-inch flowers are in full bloom. This tall cultivar has won many awards and stands out in any garden. Its fragrant ruby-red blooms have a yellow throat.

Bloom Season: Early

Size: 34 inches tall

Zone: 3-9

'Webster's Pink Wonder'

JANICE WOOD

You'll fall in love this popular daylily as soon as you see its giant flowers. Its 13-inch pink blooms with green throats sit on tall stems that are sure to bring lots of curb appeal to your garden space.

Bloom Season: Mid-Season

Size: 34 inches tall

Zones: 4-10

'White Eyes Pink Dragon'

JANICE WOOD

Make a dramatic statement in your garden with this popular, award-winning pink cultivar. Its vibrant 8½-inch rose-pink flowers are fragrant and have a white watermark and green throat.

Bloom Season: Mid-Season

Size: 38 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Little Grapette'

This award-winning miniature daylily offers lots of purplish flowers in early and midsummer.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 1 foot tall

Zones: 3-9

'Catherine Woodbery'

MATTHEW BENSON

An old, time-tested favorite, 'Catherine Woodbery' offers delightfully fragrant, pale-pink flowers.

Bloom Season: Midsummer

Size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Country Melody'

KRITSADA PANICHGUL

In midsummer, this award-winning variety erupts with fragrant, 5 ½-inch, bright pink blooms that fade to yellow at the throat.

Bloom Season: Midsummer

Size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Fellow'

MARILYN STOUFFER

It's hard to go wrong with this daylily variety. It produces a profusion of large, purple, 7-inch blooms in summer.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Abluted Pink'

MARILYN STOUFFER

'Abluted Pink' offers deep pink blooms through the summer on a low-maintenance plant.

Bloom season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Rose Swan'

MARILYN STOUFFER

An award-winning variety, 'Rose Swan' features large, rose-pink flowers in midsummer.

Bloom Season: Midsummer

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Charles Johnston'

KRITSADA PANICHGUL

'Charles Johnston' offers loads of fragrant, cherry-red blooms accented with a green throat.

Bloom Season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Karen Sue'

KRITSADA PANICHGUL

This variety features beautiful pink bicolored blooms; the ruffled petals are rose-pink with a yellow throat, and the sepals are a contrasting creamy-white.

Bloom Season: Midsummer

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Wineberry Candy'

LYNN KARLIN

'Wineberry Candy' features orchid-pink petals with ruffled edges, accented by a rosy purple throat.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Broadway Magic'

MARILYN STOUFFER

This rose-pink daylily offers beautiful flowers that fade to a greenish yellow throat and tend to rebloom.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Iona Pink Promise'

ALISE O'BRIEN

A beautiful daylily variety, 'Iona Pink Promise' produces large, pink blooms with ruffled petals and a yellow throat.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 2 feet

Zones: 3-9

'Raspberry Lehi'

ROY INMAN

This outstanding daylily variety offers lots of charming, fuchsia-pink flowers with greenish yellow throats.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Bright Sunset'

PETER KRUMHARDT

This boldly colored daylily is favored for its fragrant, coppery-orange, 6-inch blooms accented with golden yellow tones.

Bloom Season: Early summer

Size: 3 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Open Hearth'

ROY INMAN

For gigantic, eye-catching flowers, grow 'Open Hearth' daylily. Its coppery red, 9-inch flowers will be the centerpiece of your garden.

Bloom Season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Pat Mercer'

MARILYN STOUFFER

An eye-catching variety, 'Pat Mercer' offers bright orange flowers that fade to green at the throat.

Bloom Season: Midsummer

Size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Hyperion'

JERRY PAVIA

An old variety from the 1920s, 'Hyperion' is a classic daylily that's still popular for its ease of growth and clusters of fragrant, lemon-yellow flowers atop tall stems.

Bloom Season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 40 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Mormon Spider'

MARILYN STOUFFER

This variety offers large beige and bright yellow flowers. The 8 ½-inch blooms and narrow petals make this daylily variety extra eye-catching.

Bloom Season: Midsummer

Size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Siloam Space Age'

ROY INMAN

'Siloam Space Age' offers large, bright yellow blooms with slightly ruffled petal edges over an extended season.

Bloom Season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Stella de Oro'

Perhaps the best-known daylily of all time, 'Stella de Oro' offers masses of golden yellow flowers all through the summer on compact plants.

Bloom Season: Early to late summer

Size: 1 foot tall

Zones: 3-9

'Creepy Crawler'

MARILYN STOUFFER

Don't let its name scare you away; 'Creepy Crawler' offers large and fragrant golden-yellow flowers with narrow petals.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Lenox'

MARILYN STOUFFER

'Lenox' offers 6-inch, soft yellow blooms that fade to a creamy green throat.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Mary Todd'

MARILYN STOUFFER

A popular variety among daylily experts, 'Mary Todd' offers large, ruffled, golden-yellow blooms early in the summer.

Bloom Season: Early summer

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Lady Elizabeth'

ROY INMAN

Another old-time variety, it's no wonder 'Lady Elizabeth' is still popular. The pale yellow (near-white) flowers are striking when they appear in summer over the green foliage.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Joan Senior'

KRITSADA PANICHGUL

About as close to pure white as daylilies come, 'Joan Senior' offers creamy, pale yellow, 6-inch blooms with a brighter yellow throat and ruffled petal edges.

Bloom Season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 2 feet tall

Zones: 3-9

'Gentle Shepherd'

PETER KRUMHARDT

Another top-rated variety, 'Gentle Shepherd' produces near-white, 5-inch flowers.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 30 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Cherry Cheeks'

MARILYN STOUFFER

This award-winning variety features bold, cherry-pink flowers in mid to late summer.

Bloom Season: Mid to late summer

Size: 28 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Siloam Merle Kent'

PETER KRUMHARDT

An award-winning variety, 'Siloam Merle Kent' offers orchid-pink blooms with purple throats.

Bloom Season: Midsummer; may rebloom

Size: 18 inches tall

Zones: 3-9

'Apple Tart'

PETER KRUMHARDT

'Apple Tart' offers rich red flowers with yellow throats early in the summer, held above finely textured foliage on tall stems.

Bloom Season: Early to midsummer

Size: 24 inches tall

Zones: 3-9