Re-Blooming Daylily 'Stella de Oro'

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5.5" Perennial
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Re-Blooming Daylily 'Stella de Oro'

Scott's Nursery Ltd.

$14.99
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Introduce a continuous, radiant splash of golden sunshine to your garden beds with the world’s most celebrated non-stop performer. This legendary miniature beauty forms a tight, exceptionally neat, and compact mound of arching, emerald-green blades that resemble a premium structural grass. Rising proudly just above this lush foliage framework is a relentless, months-long parade of trumpet-shaped blossoms showing off a brilliant, rich canary-gold palette. Each cheerful flower features elegantly ruffled "pie-crust" edges that catch the morning light, surrounding a glowing, soft chartreuse-green throat. It delivers an impeccably tailored, vibrant, and joyful look that brings effortless luxury and constant colour to borders, paths, and entryways from late spring until the first winter freezes.
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Plant Details

Mature Size:

10-12" H x 12-14" W

Zone:

3-9

Watering:

Low to Medium

Type:

Herbaceous Perennial

Growth Rate:

Fast

Light:

Full Sun/Partial Shade

Plant Profile

Common Names:

Stella de Oro Daylily, Stella D'Oro Daylily, Miniature Golden Daylily, Reblooming Daylily

Scientific Name:

Hemerocallis 'Stella de Oro'

Type:

Filler / Thriller / Miniature Reblooming Perennial

Growth Details:

Mature Size: Height of 25–30 cm (10–12 inches) x Width of 30–35 cm (12–14 inches).

Growth Habit: Compact, upright, and mounding.

Form: Neat, symmetrical, fountain-like tuft.

Growth Rate: Fast; quickly doubles its crown size and shoots up heavy bud counts each season.

Flowering: Spectacularly free-flowering; individual blooms feature an extended 16-hour lifespan.

Flowering Time: Early summer straight through to early autumn in continuous, repeating waves.

Flower Colour: Bright golden-yellow with a small chartreuse-green throat.

Environmental Needs:

Exposure: Full sun to partial shade.

Soil Preferences: Prefers fertile, organic, moist, and well-drained loam, but adapts easily to almost any soil type.

Soil Tolerance: Supreme structural tolerance. Easily handles heavy clay, compacted soils, poor gravelly sand, shallow rocky ground, and highly depleted conditions.

Watering: Low to moderate once established. Highly drought-resistant due to water stored within its thick, fleshy tuberous roots.

Container Role: Plays the role of an exceptional Filler or compact Thriller in patio pots, window boxes, and urban porch displays.

Special Features:

Disease Resistances: Exceptionally robust and virtually immune to standard garden leaf blights or crown rot.

Native Species: Derived from species native to Asia, multi-award-winning hybrid introduced by Walter Jablonski in 1975.

Fast Growing: Rapidly expands into a robust, heavy-blooming clump.

Attracts: Frequently draws in native bumblebees, large butterflies, and migrating hummingbirds.

Uses: Border edging, mass commercial groundcovers, erosion control, urban container planting, and xeriscaping.

Resistance: Highly resistant to drought, intense summer heat, urban air pollution, heavy road salt, and rabbits.
Care Guide

Ornamental & Landscape Value

Seasonal Interest:

Bloom Information: Features high-density, ruffled golden trumpets with mild, sweet fragrance. Showiness is exceptionally high due to the constant development of new flowering scapes.

Fall Colour: Foliage maintains a rich green color late into the season before turning amber-copper after a hard winter freeze.

Garden Value:

Ornamental Interest: Delivers unparalleled, continuous color density through its ruffled golden trumpets and fountain-like architectural foliage.

Landscaping Uses: Perfect for structural border edgings, front foundation plantings, mass groundcovers on hot slopes, walkway lining, and rock gardens.

Garden/Landscape Benefits: Forms a dense, weed-blocking canopy, binds loose soil to control erosion on banks, and functions flawlessly along paved driveways or city sidewalks where road salt is used in winter.

Wildlife & Human Value:

Wildlife Value: Functions as an essential, dependable nectar lifeline for local pollinators and hummingbirds across an extended 4-month season.

Human Value: The absolute benchmark for "bulletproof," ultra-low-maintenance landscaping. It offers homeowners an incredibly easy, affordable way to secure constant summer curb appeal with practically zero effort.

Planting & Care Guide

Planting Considerations:

Best Time To Plant: Early spring or early autumn when temperatures are mild and natural rainfall is frequent.

Spacing: Space 30–35 cm (12–14 inches) apart from center to center to allow the circular fountain shapes room to touch and form a dense hedge.

Location Tips: Select high-visibility areas like walkway edges or driveway margins. Avoid deep, heavy woodland shade where the lack of light will stop the reblooming cycle.

Companion Plants: Pairs beautifully with purple Salvia, Nepeta (Catmint), Lavandula (Lavender), Coreopsis, and low blue-toned ornamental grasses.

Care:

Light Requirements: Requires full sun to partial shade. Best performance and maximum reblooming density occur with 6+ hours of direct daily sunlight.

Moisture Requirements: Thrives in average, moist, well-drained soil but is exceptionally forgiving of occasional dry spells once its root network locks in.

Maintenance: High-reward rebloomer. Snap off spent individual flowers daily and remove faded scapes down to the base. Regularly deadheading spent flower heads prevents seed production and directly prompts faster, heavier waves of new blooms.

Fertilization: Apply a light top-dressing of organic compost or a balanced, slow-release perennial fertilizer in early spring as new green blades break the soil surface.

Tolerances:

High drought and heat tolerant, Severe cold and frost tolerant, Heavy clay and poor soil tolerant, Urban pollution and road salt tolerant, Black walnut tree tolerant (completely immune to juglone toxicity), Rabbit resistant

Tips For Success:

Thinning/Pinching: To maintain maximum vigor and bloom volume, divide the clumps every 3–4 years in early spring or autumn. Dig up the root mass and easily split it into smaller fans with a knife.

Support/Staking: Completely unnecessary; the sturdy, naked flower scapes are short and engineered to remain perfectly upright.

Mulching: Apply a 5 cm (2-inch) layer of shredded hardwood mulch or clean leaf compost around the base in spring to conserve moisture and suppress early weeds.

Winter Protection: No special winter protection required. Simply clear away all dead, collapsed brown leaves in late autumn or early spring to keep the crown perfectly clean for fresh growth.
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