Background history:

'Swallow Tail Kite' is a semi-evergreen tetraploid introduced in 1998 by Curt Hanson. Curt does his hybridizing at Crintonic Gardens in Gates Mills, Ohio: http://crintonic.com/ .

Swallow Tail Kite is an early to mid-season bloomer. It has earned the following AHS awards: Award of Merit: 2006 and Honorable Mention: 2001. It is pod and pollen fertile with 48 registered children: http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the NGA Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Swallow Tail Kite') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Swallow Tail Kite')

Long blooming and a fairly vigorous grower. But the scapes do not reach registered height here. More like 34 inches here.

2 weeks ago I went to the Open Garden Days of an amateur hybridizer in the north of the country
Came home with as many DL's as my car could handle



Swallow Tail Kite is one of them and yesterday it was blooming it's heart out
Will check height etc this afternoon when I go watering (it's on my allotment).


Mayo

I love it when my car looks like that! Good job, Mayo

Yeah, I like it too

I took some photo's of my newly acquired Swallow Tail Kite
It is still flowering, even though I planted it only ten days ago and it has been hot yesterday and today







The leaves look a bit puny, but the scapes are a proud 45" high


Mayo

I bought Swallow Tail Kite last year and it bloomed the first season in the garden. This year it has scapes that are approx. 40" tall and the clump has expanded to 8 fans in one year. I can't remember how many fans I started with, but not 8, probably more like 3 or 4. It is doing very well and has just started blooming in the garden. I am very happy with its vigor. The foliage is very healthy looking.

FFO (yesterday)

It is one of my favorites, always performs well in every way and is outstanding parent.

I planted SK in the Spring of 2021, in a good location. I must have lost the tag, as I don't have any info on fan increase. I'll get a tag on it next summer when it blooms. This year it bloomed from July 9-30, with 16 flowers. I'm sure it will continue to do better.

2023 update…STK bloomed from July 9- August 20 with at least 41 blooms…that's quite good around here! It put on a fan this season to end at four fans.