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HEMEROCALLIS. (Liliaceae). One of the great joys of spring is the wavy, fresh green tips of Hemerocallis leaves, poking through the snow along with snowdrops and the blood red tips of Peonies. In summer their deep-throated flowers make voluptuous 'v' signs towards the phalanxes of Kniphofias and erect knobs of Agapanthus.. The modern Hemerocallis cultivars with their ruffles, eyezones, banding and edges, (camp and gorgeous as if snipped out of velvet and silk by John Galliano) are fit to strut the cat walk. At Woottens our special love is the new American Spider and Unusual Forms. We feel these deconstructed plants are ideal for using in the mixed border with the more wayward of late summer beauties: Aster laterifolius Lady in Black, Helianthus salicifolius, Molionias, Veronicastrums...