David Daehnke, The Gardening Guru
Mahwah, NJ 07430
gardeningguru@juno.com
The 2007 All American Daylily Winners
“LAVENDER VISTA”
 | 40-135 Days of Bloom per Year |
| Good Rust Resistance |
| Reblooms until Frost! |
| 5-6" Fragrant Blooms on 20-24" Tall Scapes |
| "Exhibition" All American 2007 |
‘Lavender Vista’™ pairs profuse, clear lavender blooms with lush evergreen foliage. This combination creates harmony with pink, lavender and purple companion plants. Most lavender daylilies require a trade-off between bloom beauty, foliage quality and performance. This variety encompasses all of these things. The blooms are 5-6" across
with a green throat, and rest upon 20-24" scapes. The vigorous, arching foliage is 16-22" tall and the masses of blooms are held just above these uniform mounds. This spectacular variety blooms an average of 88 days per year, tolerates much more shade than most daylilies, and guarantees a stunning display on slopes, as a border or in containers.
ABOUT AADSC
The soaring popularity of
daylilies, combined with the bewildering profusion of varieties and growing
characteristics, demanded the development of a standard for daylily
excellence. The All-American Daylily Selection Council, organized to address
this demand, now coordinates a testing program which evaluates daylilies on
over 50 performance characteristics across a nationwide network of test sites.
This rigorous testing has produced comprehensive and surprising results. Who
would have thought, for example, that a daylily bred in Texas would have been
a top bloomer in Wisconsin, or that one from Missouri would perform so well in
the heat of Southern California?
There are more than 48,000 daylilies registered, bred in at least 25 states,
by hundreds of individual hybridizers. Using its elaborate testing program,
the AADSC sorts through the thousands of registered daylilies and awards to
only the top performers across five USDA hardiness zones the coveted title of
"All American."
Each year's scores are measured against all previous test data in order to
ensure that the All-Americans are truly the best performers in their color
category. Daylilies are tested for at least two years, with All-American
finalists being grown for another three to five years in open field conditions
before being announced.
2003 marks another year of new All-American daylily winners offering gardeners
throughout the country a steady stream of these tried and tested perennial
beauties. Gardeners nationwide can expect to see these proven daylilies at
their garden center and grow them successfully in virtually any garden in
America. Backed by scientifically proven superior performance nationwide,
All-American Daylilies are becoming America's preferred perennial.
For more information, please e-mail The Gardening Guru at gardeningguru@juno.com
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