4" rich red flowers 21" scapes Bred by world-renown daylily hybridizer Dr. Darrel Apps Starts blooms early season and will rebloom multiple times

After dozens of generations of breeding, Dr. Darrel Apps (the hybridizer of popular reblooming cultivars such as 'Happy Returns' and 'Pardon Me') has pushed the limits of daylily bloom-time back more than a month!

Jersey Earlybird™ Daylilies are selected from a breeding program which focuses on daylilies that begin blooming a full month before the average daylily. First and foremost, Jersey Earlybird™ must bloom with the earliest of daylily selections.

Beyond that, all Jersey Earlybird™ selections must show the ability to give multiple rebloom scapes. If it was only early-blooming and not long blooming, after all, it would not be an overly exciting plant. At their test gardens in Southern New Jersey, their daylily experts have seen more than 100 days of color on one plant of Earlybird Cardinal™. If planted in full sun and not stressed by underwatering, they have seen four sets of rebloom scapes in one season!

Finally, to be considered for the Jersey Earlybird™ lineup, each selection must offer a look and/or color that is not common for early blooming daylilies. Their first selection, Earlybird Cardinal™, is a rich red color with heavily ruffled petals and a lovely green throat.