Add rich color and award-winning beauty to your garden with Always Afternoon Daylily, a perennial known for its large dusky rose blooms with a dramatic plum-purple eyezone and glowing green throat. The petals have delicate buff pink edges adding texture and contrast, perfect for flower beds, cottage gardens, borders, and pollinator plantings.

This variety won the 1997 American Hemerocallis Society Silver Stout Medal, the highest honor for daylilies. Its semi-evergreen foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season. It thrives in northern and southern climates. These Grade #1 bare root plants establish quickly and provide years of dependable blooms with minimal maintenance.

You will receive:
✔️ 3 live Always Afternoon Daylily bare root plants
✔️ Grade #1 planting stock
✔️ Award-winning perennial flowering plants
✔️ Healthy bare root divisions
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information
Common Name: Always Afternoon Daylily
Botanical Name: Hemerocallis ‘Always Afternoon’
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Growth Stage: Bare root divisions
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial sun
Soil: Adaptable to most well-draining soils
Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
Mature Height: Approximately 22 inches
Mature Width: Approximately 18–24 inches
Growth Rate: Fast
USDA Zones: 3–9
Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip: Plant crowns just below the soil surface and water thoroughly after planting. Removing spent flowers encourages continued blooming and keeps plants looking fresh throughout the season.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.