Background history:

'Rainbow Candy' is a dormant introduced in 1996 by Stamile.

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2007

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Rainbow Candy') .

Please join in, if you own this plant! We would love to know more! I award an acorn for performance information posted to this thread.



Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Rainbow Candy')

I bought this one because it was a child plant of one of my all-time favorites, Blueberry Candy, which did beautifully for me and produced lots of lovely blooms until it fell victim to my big rust outbreak of 2021. Rainbow Candy had a similar look in pictures and had an excellent rust resistance rating of 1.0.

So far it has done well, although I haven't had it long. I planted it (a tiny DF) in fall of 2021 in the same spot where Blueberry Candy had been. It hasn't bloomed yet, and I will come back and report when it does, But it has increased by a fan, and the fans are now large and healthy--no signs of rust yet! One other interesting detail--it's supposed to be a dormant, and Blueberry Candy was. However, Rainbow Candy stayed green all winter, its first here. Will see whether that pattern continues.


I actually looked up its other parent, Little Print, which also has a rust resistance rating of 1.0, and I bought that one, too.

May 13: Rainbow Candy has bloomed for me. Here's a shot where you can see the buds:


And here's a good bloom shot:


It meets the bloom specs; in fact I would say the bloom is a little larger than 4.75".

This flower has always performed well here, meets registered stats. No more problems than most other daylilies I grow. Enjoyable plant to have.

Some of the database fotos sure don't match the registration picture and some do. Will the real 'Rainbow Candy' please stand up?

SunriseSide said: Some of the database fotos sure don't match the registration picture and some do. Will the real 'Rainbow Candy' please stand up?

Yes, there seems to be a lot of variation in the color in pictures, from beige to cream to near-white. Also there's variation in the eye color. Am eager to see what color I get when mine blooms!

@Seedfork, have you ever noticed color change during the day for this one?

I have never noticed any color changing in my garden on Rainbow Candy. Sometimes it has inconsistent color like a lot of daylilies.

Those are great pictures. I especially like the last one.

I have only had this plant since September 2021. It wintered well here in zone 8b and stayed green all winter. I will add more when I see it bloom.