How many 'favourite' daylilies is it possible to have...?
Well, 'Accidental Tourist' is one of my favourites. I love this beautiful and reliable cold-hardy daylily...
The stats are 31-inch scapes and 6-inch blooms, and it definitely reaches those goals. In some years, I think the scapes are taller. The colours may shift a bit from day to day, sometimes a slightly pinker watermark and then sometimes a deeper cherry. The slight ruffle along the edges sometimes has a 'frosted' look, that smokey tone that does shift towards "greyed and spotty"
@Deryll ... a trait found among a number of Trahlyta's children.
Other times, the bloom and / or edge displays a smokey lavender / blue / almost silver overlay that suggests the garden fairies have been playing among the blossoms, and gilding them, perhaps borrowing a bit of silvered moonbeam from a midnight ball hosted in the gardens.
This daylily is fragrant - you will catch its lovely scent whenever you pass by (I've planted it along a curved edge of a pathway, for maximum enjoyment.)
In zone 3, 'Accidental Tourist' begins to bloom in July, about midseason. The blooms are so consistent ... probably in the range of about 15 per scape, with 3-way branching ... it seems to carry on for weeks. But now that I think on it, I wonder if it has rebloom scapes...? Still many blooms and buds in August:
It flowers for so long, I almost take it for granted.
And that's something, with this beauty, I should never do. 'Accidental Tourist' has earned a place in my gardens.
