Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Kindly Light') in the Daylilies Database

Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link:	AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer:	Bechtold
Year of Registration or Introduction:	1950
Foliage type:	Dormant
Scape height:	29 inches
Bloom size:	7 inches
Bloom time:	Midseason
Plant Traits:	Extended Bloom Rebloom
Rust Resistance:	Shows Resistance
Rust Resistance Decimal Score:	1.3
Bloom Traits:	Self
Bloom Form:	Spider
Color description:	GYL1: Green yellow light self
AHS Awards:	Honorable Mention: 1955 HOS: 1989

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Flowers:	Showy
Propagation: Seeds:	Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods:	Division
Ploidy:	Diploid
Child plants:	126 child plants

Common names

Daylily

'Kindly Light' was a featured
Plant of the Day for September 15, 2016.

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Location: Photo by Carol Bacskai; zone 5b, Yorkville, IL
Date: 2021-06-30

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Location: Lincoln, NE
Date: 2018-8-5
Rebloom of Kindly Light

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Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2020-04-28

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Location: Dayton, KY
Date: 2012-06-04
Clump blooming in school garden

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Location: North Carolina
Date: 2022-06-12
Kindly Light

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Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar BC
Date: 2014-07-20
1:28 pm. A classic older spider.

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Location: Murfreesboro TN
Date: 2023-06-17
Kindly Light, Eden’s Edge Garden

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Location: Lower Saxony, Germany
Date: 2019-06-29

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Location: Northville, MI
Date: July 8, 2022, 10:20 AM

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Photo courtesy of MaryAnn Pruden of Lily House

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Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2017-05-17
Kindly Light

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Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2023-07-19

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Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2023-07-24

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2009-07-12

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Photo Courtesy of Alcovy Daylily Farm. Used with Permission.

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Photo Courtesy of Keast Daylily Gardens. Used with Permission.

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Location: Yorkville, IL
Date: 2020-07-05
Photo by Carol Bacskai

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Location: Private Daylily Garden, MI
Date: 2006-07-28

Uploaded by DaylilySLP

Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2022-08-03

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Photo Courtesy of Nova Scotia Daylilies Used with Permission

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Location: Haley Springs Farm
Date: 2020-06-05

Uploaded by Hembrain

Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: June 24, 2012
photo by James Steakley

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Photo Courtesy of Bluegrass Daylily Gardens. Used with Permission

Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Walnut Hill Gardens Used With Permission. Unaut

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Location: Lexington, KY
Date: 2014-06-23

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Location: BX Creek Daylilies, Vernon, BC.
Photo by Gail Morgan of BX Creek Daylilies. Used with permission.

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Location: Hamilton, Ohio
Date: 2016-06-13

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Location: Duluth, MN (4b)
Date: 2022-08-17

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Location: Lexington, KY
Date: 2015-06-23

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Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.

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Location: Cantonment, FL
Date: 2014-06-16

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Photo Courtesy of QB Daylily Gardens. Used with Permission.

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Photo Courtesy of Garfield Gardens Used with Permission

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Date: 2008-06-26
Posted with permission and photographed by Marifrances Hiltz http

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Image courtesy of Charlotte's Daylily Diary. Used with permission

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Courtesy of Peace on Earth Gardens Used with permission

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2011-08-01

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Date: 2006-06-28
Photo Courtesy of Manatawny Creek Farm Used With Permission

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Photo Courtesy of Lilywood Farms. Used with Permission.

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Photo courtesy of Karen Newman, Delano Daylilies

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Image Courtesy of Monches Farm Used with Permission

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Comments:

Posted by Joy (Kalama, Wa. - Zone 8b) on Dec 3, 2011 5:31 AM concerning plant:

A bright yellow classic spider (6-8:1) with very faint salmon pink eyezone after cool evenings. When many flowers open at once, the clump looks like it's covered with yellow ribbons. An exasperatingly difficult parent, but I've heard of some luck with placing pollen in the barely opened flowers around 6 o'clock the evening before. Good health, hardy, good to great increase (4 to 7 fans from one each year) thin, deep green foliage. A top-branched elegant spider, blooms well for a little over two weeks commencing at mid season. Garden Value Poll Winner

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Posted by tabbycat (Youngsville, LA - Zone 9b) on Jun 11, 2018 4:30 PM concerning plant:

It's one of the 2 spider varieties I have. It makes large wispy 7+" flowers on 30" stems. The leaves are narrow and more flimsy than my other daylilies. It blooms about a month from April into May here in zone 9. It hasn't multiplied very fast over the 15 years I've had it, maybe because I've moved twice, so uprooting may have slowed it down.

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Plant Events from our members
Seedfork	On April 19, 2018	Miscellaneous Event First scape on this plant this year.
Seedfork	On April 24, 2017	Bloomed First bloom ever on this plant in my garden.
Seedfork	On April 9, 2017	Miscellaneous Event First scapes ever on this plant in my garden
Seedfork	On April 7, 2016	Obtained plant Received from Kabby
tabbycat	On April 24, 2022	Bloomed 1st of 2022
tabbycat	On May 5, 2021	Bloomed 2 large 6" flowers
tabbycat	On April 11, 2020	Bloomed 1st of 2020

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Kindly Light by genie3482	Sep 27, 2017 2:28 PM	5

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