Black Daylily Plant black daylilies for the deep bass note in your garden Daylily hybridizers have still not achieved a completely black daylily but near black that is a red brown so deep or dark blue purple daylilies that appear black are available. Breeders tell us that true black is not an option in the color genes of Hemerocallis but any artist knows that a little red, blue and yellow in various amounts will come out black so there may one day be a truly black daylily that happens thru accident or experimentation.

7 Daylilies deserving to be called Black!

So in the meantime if you are longing for that black velvet look in your daylily bed, consider:

BLACK AMBROSIA
30" semi- evergreen plant with purple-black five inch lilies

BLACK PLUSH
6" red-maroon with yellow throat on 30" evergreen plant which blooms mid-season

BLACK BRIAR BAY
6 deep dark overlapping petals with yellow center

JUNGLE BEAUTY
a dense purple-black.

New black daylilies on the market

Every year new daylily forms and colors appear and you might find them at a grower you haven’t tried. Look for:
BLACK EMMANUELE

EBONY JEWEL Dave's Garden is carrying these at present and they are worth a look.

BLACK MOON We love the name of this new black daylily and you can check it out at bluegrassdaylilygardens.com.

We suggest that you view black flowers as the deepest bass note you can plant in your garden. In theory, one could plant a garden entirely of black blooms from daylilies, pansies, bearded iris, tulips, etc., but it is likely that this would end up looking too dark and lacking in contrast. But, consider a couple of artful black blooms picking up the dark notes in Cotinus purpurea, in the dark reds of various flowering bulbs, roses or hollyhocks.

When you are the gardener, you are the artist, and a truly beautiful garden moves through the color palette with painterly skill, evoking feelings of reflection, peace, surprise and excitement. Botanists continue to give us new 'tubes of paint' to work with in the latest hybrids and the daylily offers an entire rainbow spectrum for you to choose from. Without a doubt, black flowers like these black daylilies are going to add that oh! to the garden.