Back Draft Daylily
$19.99 each, 3 for $54.99
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* 6″ bloom, 27″ tall, Mid-Late Season, Dormant
‘Back Draft’ daylily is not for the faint of heart! A prolific bloomer, these brilliant orange blooms with a vivid red eyezone can stop traffic (and do— read the reviews!). Blooms are big and bold and simply gorgeous— especially when planted en masse. A mid-to late season daylily, Back Draft is a perfect fiery choice if you like eyed daylilies, if you like bold daylilies or if you like daylilies at all!
Back Draft is one of five daylilies in our The Eyes Have It collection. If you love eyed daylilies, you need this collection!
Visit our YouTube channel to see all our videos on daylilies!
Back Draft Daylily Features:
Not for the faint of heart! Brilliant orange blooms with a vivid red eyezone are a huge 6″ and grow sturdy on scapes around 27″ tall in our East Tennessee garden. Everyone wants to know what these are and what they’re called. They can—and will (read the reviews!)— stop traffic! Back Draft is a prolific bloomer so get ready for a bloom show!
Speaking of blooms… they are big and bold and simply gorgeous— especially when planted en masse. We also love them when paired with purple or lavender daylilies or you can plant it with other red daylilies to crank that heat up even higher!
A mid-to late season daylily, we usually see Back Draft around mid June to early July in our East Tennessee garden. If you are to the north of us, you’ll see them a bit later. If you are to our south, you’ll see them a couple of weeks before we do.
Back Draft is a dormant daylily which means it grows best in planting zones that get a sustained cold period in the winter.
Back Draft is part of our The Eyes Have It collection. If you love eyed daylilies, you need this collection!
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WHAT DAYLILIES CAN I GROW: Most of you can grow any of the daylilies we sell. If you live in an area with a sustained cold period like we do in East Tennessee, you can grow all the varieties. However, If you live in an area that doesn’t get freezing weather in the winter (like zones 9 and 10), dormant varieties won’t work for you; you’ll need to choose evergreen or semi-evergreen varieties.
BIG PLANTS! When it comes to daylily plants, bigger is better! All of the plants we ship will be three fans or larger — two or three times (or more) what you might receive from other companies. Larger plants get established faster and bloom more quickly!
FARM-FRESH TO YOU! All of your plants will be freshly dug when you order. The leaves are trimmed and the plants are washed and air-dried. Your daylilies will be out of the ground less than 48 hours before they’re headed your way.
BONUS DAYLILIES: We send free daylilies (we call them “bonus” daylilies) with every order. These daylilies are equal to about 20% of your order and are the same huge, healthy plants we sell. Just leave the decision up to us and we’ll pick something you’re sure to love!
ABOUT US: Oakes Daylilies is a family-owned daylily farm that’s been in business for three generations. Our daylilies grow in home gardens, city parks and botanical gardens across the nation– including Hawaii and Canada. We are known in the industry as Daylily Experts and grow over 1000 varieties of daylilies on nearly 70 acres in East Tennessee. But over 50 years ago, we started just like you—with one daylily in a home garden.
Kelly C – Zone 4B –
Love the name and its brillant in the garden with lots of beautiful gold blooms and red eye zone. Great multiplier and always tons of blooms. Lol…Only complaint, it’s a tough one to photograph due to the colors being so brillant!
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Mary D.: Zone 8b (verified owner) –
Back Draft is such a spectacular daylily: eye catching, great substance, sturdy scapes, fabulous flowers…a pure delight in the heat of the Deep South.
Mary D.
Bogue Chitto, MS
Zone 8b
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Lynda Horn Russellville Arkansas zone 7b (verified owner) –
This is one of the few blooming plants I’ve had that folks driving down my street stopped and ask me what it was. When I said it was a day lily named back draft they said that’s a day lily? It’s arresting, and the huge eye is even bigger than in the pictures. This was a very sturdy plant, and kept blooming long after other day lilies had quit.
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Virginia Koonce (verified owner) –
I live across the street from our Volunteer Fire Dept – so I told them about Back Draft when it started to bloom. This is its first season and it knocked our socks off! Big, healthy blossoms from late June to early August – what fun! Zone 5, southeastern Nebraska
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Barbara Quisenberry (verified owner) –
This is an outstanding plant. It blooms, and blooms ..then re-blooms again in the fall. It is a true eye catcher!
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Sylvia Leath (verified owner) –
Back Draft is a very showy daylily in the garden. It’s colors are wonderful, and it is aptly named. It isn’t billed as a rebloomer, but it is July 13th today in Waco, Texas, and Back Draft is putting up yet another scape. You can’t go wrong with this one.
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Scot MacGregor –
My favorite
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Gorgeous daylily – a real stunner. The pictures do not even come close to how beautiful it is in person. Prolific bloomer.
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Gambier, OH (verified owner) –
I live in zone 5b. One of the most beautiful , stunning orange daylilies you can have. Reminds me of my Wife. Just beautiful. A must have to attract attention from every passerby.
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