Featured Photo: Flower of the Day – Rocket City Daylily

October 27, 2024May 1, 2025

Today’s Featured Flower Photo of the Day:
Rocket City Daylily

Here is today’s featured photo flower presentation. To let 2024 shine bright, I am featuring fine photos of flowers, continuing to honor the brighter side of life again this year. Today’s Flower of the day is: Rocket City Daylily.

The Rocket City Daylily, or the Hemerocallis ‘Rocket City’ Orange Daylily of the Asphodelaceae family are such abrightly great summer sight that just make it right. The Rocket City Daylily has blossoms are trumpet-shaped, featuring a bittersweet orange hue complemented by a burnt orange eye zone, crimped petals, and smooth sepals. The throat and midribs exhibit a lighter orange-yellow coloration. The bloom period occurs from early to mid-summer. The plant possesses grassy leaves that maintain their green color throughout the growing season. The Rocket City Daylily needs pruning to enhance appearance and prolong the blooming period, prune the flower stalks after flowering. They possess hardiness, as the plant is very resilient, capable of withstanding severe conditions. This species is resistant to rabbits. The Rocket City Daylily requires relatively low maintenance, demonstrating tolerance to drought, heat, and urban pollution. The Rocket City Daylily needs plenty of watering, especially during a long dry spell or drought.

Rocket City Daylily:
Flowers are about 6 inches, and attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds:

Spacing : 24 inches (60cm to 61cm)
Height : 24 to 36 inches (60cm to 90 cm)
Width : 18 to 24 inches (45cm to 60 cm)
Exposure : Full Sun to partial shade

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Photos taken with a Samsung Galaxy A71 with the factory Quad camera Standard-wide: 64 MP 1/1.72-inch sensor with 0.8µm pixels and 26 mm-equivalent f/1.8 PDAF lens Ultra-wide: 12 MP sensor with f/2.2 aperture lens.

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Another fine photograph to coming right up:
Feature photo: “Flower of the Day” ! ! !