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Custard Candy Daylily

Hemerocallis 'Custard Candy'

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Planting & Care

Where to Plant

  • Sunlight: Give your Custard Candy at least 6 hours of direct sun daily to ensure those creamy yellow blooms pop. While it tolerates partial shade, fewer hours of light will result in less vibrant flower color and fewer "rebloom" cycles throughout the summer.
  • Soil: These daylilies love rich, well drained soil but are famous for being "tough as nails" in heavy clay or sandy spots. If your soil is heavy clay, mix in some organic compost to improve drainage so the roots do not sit in water during winter.

Watering Requirements

During the first growing season, water deeply twice a week to help the root system reach deep into the soil. Once established, Custard Candy is remarkably drought tolerant, but consistent moisture is the secret to getting that second flush of flowers in late summer. If the soil stays bone dry for too long, the plant may skip its reblooming phase to conserve energy.

Pruning Tips

Since these daylilies bloom on new growth produced during the current season, you should remove spent flower stalks (called scapes) all the way to the ground once they finish blooming. This tells the plant to stop making seeds and start making more flowers. In late autumn or early spring, simply pull away the dead, brown foliage to tidy up the clump and make room for fresh green shoots.

Fertilizer Needs

Apply a balanced, slow release fertilizer in early spring just as the new leaves are poking through the ground. Avoid using high nitrogen fertilizers late in the summer because this encourages tender green growth that can be easily damaged by the first frost. Think of spring feeding as giving the plant the fuel it needs for a marathon blooming season.

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Zone 5 Week of March 16th
Zone 6 Week of March 2nd
Zone 7-12 Week of February 23rd


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Get triple the color on Custard Candy Daylily (Hemerocallis x 'Custard Candy')! Creamy-yellow trumpets of broad overlapping petals, transition to bold maroon-red eyes before changing again to yellowish-green throats! Talk about a pollinator landing zone!

All this and fragrance too! The many scapes are filled with buds, each taking its turn opening for a day to give you a long display during the summer! Showing off against a superb backdrop of deep-green strappy foliage! Grassy foliage grows in defiance of the sun, wind, and rain. Custard Candy fills your gardens vividly all growing season!

Custard Candy is a sweet treat for the eyes and your local hummingbirds as well! Plus, it has a trick up its sleeve and reblooms again in the fall! Hardy throughout USDA growing zones 3 to 9, these Tetraploid Daylilies are stout, hardy, and have the best color and longevity!

Planting and Application:

Traditional sunny border plants, Daylilies add uniform beauty and texture as rows, garden borders, and by defining edges and graceful lining walkways and paths! They look lovely spilling over Rock Gardens and the edges of stone steps, and are the finishing touch cascading over the tops of retaining walls!

Pollinator and Perennial gardens are lovely sites, as are Cut Flower gardens! What's best is how easy this perennial is to care for and assimilate into your landscape big or small! From small containers and window boxes to hillsides and slopes as erosion control and mass plantings - Daylilies are perfect for both commercial and residential sites.

Create focal points around seating areas, birdbaths, outdoor sculptures and urns. Or encircle trees, pergolas and gazebos with lush greenery skirting their base. Use as facer plants to hide the leggy bases of larger shrubs, along the fronts of your foundation plantings, and to perk up a weary evergreen hedge!

Many people employ Daylilies by their driveways and roads, because of how tolerant they are to salt spray in the winter, and how wonderfully Xeric they are! Plus Daylilies are on many fire-wise landscaping lists.

These space-saving lovelies are even perfect thrillers in planters and containers around your porch or patio in the sun! Fill planting tubs, and container gardens too! Don't stress too much about where exactly to place this plant for the best effect!

  • Tri-Color Blooms - Cream, Maroon & Yellow!
  • Handsome Green Strappy Foliage
  • Clumping Upright Growth
  • Fall Reblooming & Fragrant
  • Pollinators Galore!
  • Containers, Edging, Specimens, Accents & En Masse Color!

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Loving full sun and partial shade, Custard Candy shines either way! Not particular on soil type, any well-drained medium works for these perennials. Provide regular moisture until they are established, and once they are, Daylilies are drought tolerant. Though they appreciate a 3-4 inch thick layer of mulch to keep their roots insulated and hold moisture in more regularly.

Deadhead as soon as the summer flowers finish removing the flowering stems to the crown and you will be rewarded with new flowers in fall. Daylilies can sometimes be susceptible to rust and other foliage diseases, so it is important to cut all of the foliage to the ground in late fall after the plants have been exposed to a couple of frosts. Removing the foliage before winter prevents the overwintering of disease on the old leaves so it is best to always clean them up and dispose of the old foliage each year.

  • Full Sun & Part Shade
  • Cold Hardy & Heat Tolerant
  • Moderate Moisture Needs - Low Once Established
  • Deadhead Regularly, Prune Late Fall & Divide Every 3-5 Years
  • Easy Care & Low Maintenance
  • Cold Hardy & Long Bloom Time

Extremely cold and drought tolerant, Daylilies are tough, hardy, and adaptable! Mother Nature can throw everything at Daylilies without phasing them! Order your own amazing Custard Candy Daylily for a triple treat this year by calling Nature Hills Nursery!

Daylily Frequently Asked Questions

How do you take care of Daylilies?

Daylilies need full sun for the most flowers and well-drained soil. Provide moderate, regular moisture and fertility. Deadhead regularly, prune back in the fall, and divide every 3-5 years for best results.

Do Daylilies only bloom for one day?

Daylilies only bloom for a single day, but Custard Candy Reblooming Daylilies have multiple buds per stem, and multiple stems per plant, giving you a long summer of vibrant flowers that rebloom nearly until frost!

Do Daylilies come back every year?

Daylilies are hardy herbaceous perennial plants that regularly come back year after year bigger and better.

Is the Custard Candy Daylily Fragrant?

The Custard Candy Daylily is sweetly scented, on top of other appealing benefits

What Shipping Options Do You Offer?

NatureHills.com works closely with our growers and nursery professionals to ensure we ship when it is most appropriate for your area. Our goal is to deliver the hardiest plants by avoiding extreme high and low temperatures. Check out our shipping schedule for more information and to learn our wills and won'ts when it comes to shipping plants. Find your Daylilies for sale here at NatureHills.com!

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