Background history:

'Little Rosy Cloud' is a semi-evergreen diploid introduced in 1985 by Winniford-E..

It has earned the following AHS awards:
Honorable Mention: 2015

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Little Rosy Cloud') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Little Rosy Cloud')

I just wanted to point out that this plant was introduced in 1985, but it was not until recently 2015 that it received Honorable Mention. Looking at the photos in the database, this appears to be a much overlooked little gem of a plant. I see it is available for only seven dollars also. I don't own it, but if I had seen it earlier on I would, it still might go on my want list. It looks like such a great little performer.

It is a great little plant. When I got it I didn't expect to like it so much. Like a lot of smaller flowered plants, it blooms heavily & has rebloomed every year I have had it. It has multiplied well until this last winter when I almost lost it. I'm not sure why, we had a pretty mild winter. Down to just a few fans this year but hoping it will increase as well as previously & soon be back to full size.

I planted Little Rosy Cloud in late winter 2023. It has already impressed me. It has multiplied even during the oppressive heat this year. Flowers are pretty. I have mine planted in partial shade. Perhaps, that is why it was able to survive this extremely hot year.

Living in south-central Florida on the east coast in Zone 10a, daylilies don't do well here. But ... this one has survived since April 2016 when I received 3 fans from Hem Haven Nursery. It has not increased much at all over the past 8 years (typically daylilies die within 3 years here). It is still alive with 4 maybe 5 fans currently. Despite the low fan increase here, this cultivar puts on quite a show when it blooms! It has 4 way branching with at least 20 buds/blooms per scape. The color is a pinkish-orange color with lightly ruffled sculpted 3-1/2 to 4" blooms. A very pretty flower. It holds it's color throughout the day. It is an early season bloomer here in April. The scapes can range from 18" to 24". The blooms are slow to open fully in the mornings. It has never had rust on it's leaves. It must be a pretty darn tough daylily to survive here in my zone and growing conditions. One of very few that survive long term here in the heat of Florida!
This is the 4-5 fan clump:

This bloom photo was taken in the late afternoon, which caused my flash to go off, so the color looks rather faded out, but it was actually a medium pink-orange color:

I tend to want to grow plants for a few years before writing a review, but I am making an exception for an exceptional plant. I obtained a DF of Little Rosy Cloud from Moonlight Valley Farm in May of 2023, and I have been thrilled with this plant in its first year. I can't believe this little beauty isn't more widely grown. After one season with me, it has claimed a high position on my favorites list.

There apparently has been some confusion between Little Rosy Cloud and Little Pink Cloud. Apparently some growers have ordered Little Rosy Cloud and gotten Little Pink Cloud instead. I had been planning to order both and plant them side by side to compare, but I am so sure I have the correct plant--and I like it so much--that I am not going to bother with Little Pink Cloud.

The plant had only two fans during its first year in my garden, but it bloomed and rebloomed like a full clump, producing clusters of lovely, ruffled, peachy-pink flowers. It's registered as 22", but I think mine was taller than that.

Little Rosy Cloud showed not a speck of rust in its first full season. One more pleasant surprise: it produced two beautiful proliferations, which are now growing happily in a pot. I am so glad I have them because unfortunately, Little Rosy Cloud was one of the daylilies in the bed that suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Helene in September, which destroyed the plant tags in the bed and all the foliage on the daylilies growing there. If Little Rosy Cloud does not come back, at least I have the proliferations; and if it does, I can use the prolifs to help it clump up faster.

Someone mentioned in another thread that Little Rosy Cloud is hard to set pods on, and I did find that to be true. I tried and failed several times with pollen from other dips like Banned in Boston, Neal Berrey, and Stella's Ruffled Fingers. That seems to be its only drawback.

Little Rosy Cloud has great garden habits, and I expect that as it increases and settles in, I will be even more pleased with it.



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