Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Custard Candy') in the Daylilies Database

Data specific to Daylilies (Edit)
AHS link:	AHS Daylily Cultivar Info
Hybridizer:	Stamile
Year of Registration or Introduction:	1989
Foliage type:	Dormant
Scape height:	24 inches
Bloom size:	4.25 inches
Bloom time:	Early midseason
Plant Traits:	Rebloom Diurnal
Rust Resistance:	Shows Susceptibility
Rust Resistance Decimal Score:	3.9
Fertility:	Pod Fertile Pollen Fertile
Bloom Traits:	Eye or Band
Bloom Form:	Single
Color description:	cream yellow with maroon eyezone and green throat
AHS Awards:	Stout Silver Medal: 1999 Award of Merit: 1996 Honorable Mention: 1993 ATG: 1996

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:	Tetraploid
Parentage:	((Chicago Picotee Queen x Byzantine Emperor) x Frandean) x Tet. Siloam Virginia Henson
Child plants:	96 child plants

Common names

Daylily

'Custard Candy' was a featured
Plant of the Day for September 5, 2015.

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Location: My garden.
Date: Aug 21, 2010, 12:04 PM

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Location: Elberfeld, Indiana
Date: 2018-06-18

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Location: MILLBROOK ONTARIO CANADA
Date: 2013-06-22
just fabulous plant each and every time, STOUT METAL WINNER

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Location: Repentigny (Montreal), Quebec
Date: 2014-07-23

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Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2022-07-24
Oldie but goodie!

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Location: Breezy Knees garden, Yorkshire, England UK
Date: 2019-07-08
Hemerocallis 'Custard Candy'

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Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2017-05-05
Fist bloom ever in my garden

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Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar BC
Date: 2015-07-09

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Location: Castlegar
Date: July 19 2018
Grown in a bit of shade in the afternoon

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-06-14

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Location: Melvindale, Mi. 48122
Date: Mid season 2011
Nice northern hardy plant!!!

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Location: Northville, MI
Date: July 13, 2018, 11:30 AM

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Location: English Gardens, Royal Oak, MI
Date: 2010-06-12

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Location: RHS Garden Wisley
Date: 2023-07-22

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Location: Mexico, Missouri
Date: 2020-06-30
Taken on an overcast morning

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Location: Nora's Garden - Castlegar BC
Date: 2014-07-20
1:33 pm. An amazing filigree edging of transparent yellow.

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Location: Georgetown, KY
Date: July 2015
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Location: My garden.
Date: Aug 8, 2010, 10:36 AM

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Location: North Carolina
Date: 2022-07-07
Custard Candy

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Location: My garden in Aurora, Ontario zone 5b

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Location: Dreamy Daylilies - Chatham-Kent, Ontario 5b
Date: 2013-07-02

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Location: Saratoga Springs NY
Date: 2014-07-21
Custard Candy

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Date: 2006-07-16
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Date: 2008-07-05
Posted with permission and photographed by Jim Healey http://www.

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Location: Coatesville Indiana
Date: 2016-06-20

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Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01

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Location: Guyton, Georgia
Date: 2023-05-15
Redemption Nursery

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Location: Guyton, Georgia
Date: 2023-05-01
Redemption Nursery

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Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-06-15

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Location: BX Creek Daylilies, Vernon, BC.
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Location: Enid, Oklahoma
Date: 2014-06-19

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Location: Wentworth, NS, Canada
Date: 2016-07-27
last bloom '16

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Location: Local garden Lexington, KY
Date: 2014-06-30

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Location: Jacksonville, TX
Date: 2012-05-09

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Date: 2012-04-08
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Date: 2006-07-13
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Date: 2000-06-24
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Comments:

Posted by adknative (Eagle Bay, New York - Zone 3b) on Jan 14, 2022 12:50 PM concerning plant:

I have had Custard Candy growing here, zone 3, for nearly ten years. It blooms reliably every year... though, oddly, some years the 'cream yellow with maroon eyezone' of its description is more peach (or blushed with pink) with a more burgundy eyezone.

I have yet to figure out what is different when it shows more pink-ish ... I have not moved it, the soil / compost I add to all the gardens never really changes; perhaps this 'colour-change' or shift towards pink might represent a dryer / wetter year (?) than average - but if so, it is not a truly notable weather shift where I could say definitively, "Oh yes: in dry years it goes peach / pink and in wet years it's more creamy-yellow" (or vice-versa).

Regardless as to which way the colour tints, the pattern is stable and Custard Candy is short enough to move towards the edge of a border where it shows up beautifully, so it's great that it blooms well every year.

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Posted by mcash70 (Near Kamloops, BC, Canada - Zone 3a) on Sep 29, 2011 6:13 PM concerning plant:

Custard Candy has done very well in my zone 3a garden, its hardy, has multiplied very well, lovely blooms.

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Plant Events from our members
Cat	On June 24, 2014	Bloomed
dragonfetti	On March 23, 2015	Obtained plant Gilbert H. Wild; $3.50
Seedfork	On May 5, 2017	Bloomed First bloom on this plant ever in my garden.
Seedfork	On April 24, 2017	Maintenance performed Treated for rust with Bayer 3 in 1. The plant just had a few specks, but other plants near it were looking bad so I treated it while I was doing the others.
Seedfork	On April 15, 2017	Miscellaneous Event First scape ever on this plant in my garden.
Seedfork	On September 9, 2016	Obtained plant Received from Avedon

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