![]() ![]() The fun, bitone flowers of Chicago Candy Cane can really add some zest to a perennial border. The thick, smokey pink petals of Smokey Mountain Autumn Daylily make it a real show stopper. This is the sumptuous and frilled Holiday Frills Daylily. There is a good range of pink-flowering daylilies. One of our finest “purple” flowering daylilies is ‘ Rue Royal’, there are good lavenders but no true purple and definitely no blue-flowering daylily. Some daylilies are greenish, especially in the throat of the flower like this Priority Daylily. It was mentioned by both Jennifer and Sharon as a top pick in the Perennial Garden. MoKan Gold Daylily was hybridized by local daylily hybridizer Bob Lennington. We have double-flowering dayliles in the garden but most of us prefer the single bloom types. Lady Florence Daylily has some extra petals and a very glowing yellow-orange flower. Outrageous Daylily is aptly named and a perennial favorite of Perennial Garden visitors. Mended Heart Daylily, a vivacious orange with darker halo, is Janet Heter’s (Senior Gardener in the nearby Rock & Waterfall Garden) favorite. One of my favorite “reds” is ‘Scarlet Tanager’ with “diamond dust” making the flowers sparkle.įor a pink-red Daylily ‘Fabulous Favorite’ stands out on the walk from the trolley stop into the garden. Reading all the names of our cultivars is half the fun! I once had a visitor couple chuckling near our mass of this daylily: turns out his name was Leland. Her pick for favorite daylily is ‘Lusty Leland’ as she like the ones in bright, hot colors with a contrasting yellow throat. Intern Sharon Rink stops for a picture while weeding in the Perennial Garden. Look for it on the left side of the walk from the trolley stop into the Perennial Garden. ![]() Here is a closeup of Jennifer’s favorite ‘Spanish Brocade’ Daylily. Jennifer likes the bold, beautiful and dramatic cultivars. ![]() Each morning Jennifer and intern Sharon Rink remove the spent blooms off all our daylilies so they always look fresh and bright during your visit. Jennifer Bolyard, Senior Gardener in the Perennial Garden, poses with one of her favorite daylilies in the garden: cultivar Spanish Brocade. This plant combination includes the near white Gentle Shepherd Daylily (mid center and left) with White Swan and regular Purple Coneflowers, a hardy Easter Lily and sprigs of Plume Poppy. You can get some great ideas for what to plant with daylilies in our Perennial Garden. Every part of the daylily plant is edible but they are best as food for the soul or “eye candy” as I call them.ĭaylilies are planted with appropriate perennials for pleasing combinations like pastel pink Lady Emily Daylily (lower right) combined with Highland White Dream Daisy (left), Summer Pastels Yarrow (upper center to right) and a pink-flowering Asiatic Lily (upper right quarter). Many appear to glow with sunshine like this yellow in a sea of other colors. Daylilies brighten the garden with light to dark colors from reds to oranges, yellows, greenish, pinks, lavenders, and near white and combinations thereof. The van Opstal theme concerns the unattainable search for the perfect body an image represented by dancers wearing fake silicone torsos illustrating the twin peaks of pneumatic breasts for the two women and ripped six-packs for the six men.Daylilies( Hemerocallis) are the epitome of bright summer perennials and Powell Gardens’ Perennial Garden displays nearly 500 varieties in a landscape setting. Eye Candy takes place against two large panels set in a wide V-shaped form, simulating the rock walls of a desolate cave, accentuated by Fabiana Piccioli’s funereal lighting a black, highly reflective floor and water-dripping sounds punctuating Amos Ben-Tal’s pulsating score. The van Opstal siblings exercise close control over their creative concept by designing the set and costumes within which to shape their choreography. ![]() By coincidence its digital partner, back in July 2021, was Marion Motin’s Rouge, which had taken the reverse journey, having premiered on stage before going online. Imre and Marne van Opstal’s Eye Candy is the latest of several works that were created as digital productions during the pandemic and have now come to enjoy a new life on stage. ![]()
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