Bitsy Daylily
$9.99 each, 3 for $27.99
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2″ bloom, 12-20″ tall, Extra-Early Season + rebloom, Evergreen
The tiny, bright blooms of ‘Bitsy’ are a beautiful way to herald daylily season! Petite 2″ blooms appear very early in the season above grassy foliage. Don’t let its small stature fool you: Bitsy is a blooming powerhouse! One of the longest blooming varieties we’ve grown, and a phenomenal rebloomer, as well. In fact, Bitsy reblooms so well you would think the rebloom was its first bloom cycle!
We think this tiny-bloomed variety looks adorable lining a garden path, in front of the border or as a planting around a mailbox (or birdbath! or wooden bench! or garden sculpture! or…) If you are short on space but still want to try daylilies, the small size of Bitsy makes it the perfect fit for a container.
A 2002 All-American Daylily Selection means this daylily has been proven to perform well in gardens across the country. Try it in yours!
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‘Bitsy’ Daylily Features:
The tiny, bright blooms of ‘Bitsy’ are a beautiful way to herald daylily season! Petite 2″ blooms appear very early in the season above grassy foliage that reaches between 12-20″ in our East Tennessee garden.
Don’t let its small stature fool you: Bitsy is a blooming powerhouse! One of the longest blooming varieties we’ve grown, and a phenomenal rebloomer as well. In fact, Bitsy reblooms so well you would think the rebloom was its first bloom cycle! (We aren’t complaining!)
A 2002 All-American Daylily Selection which means this beautiful daylily has been proven to perform well in gardens across the country; as a Semi-Evergreen variety, it can be grown no matter where you live.
These tiny yellow blooms bring joy early in the season and, thanks to remarkable rebloom, continue to bloom off and on throughout daylily season. Vibrant yellow blooms are a good complement to nearly every color. We think this variety looks adorable lining a garden path, in front of the border or as a planting around a mailbox (or birdbath! or wooden bench! or garden sculpture! or…) If you are short on space but still want to try daylilies, Bitsy is a fantastic choice to use in a container.
One of our Top 20 Reblooming Daylilies and a Best Seller and customer favorite as well.
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| Weight | 200 lbs |
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| Awards | All-American Daylily Selection, Award of Merit |
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| Zone Range | 3 to 9 |
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.
Robin Gibson (verified owner) –
I’m writing this on the day of planting. My Bitsy day lilies were received in a healthy, beautiful condition. This was my first Oakes order and, let me tell you, I was extremely impressed with the way my plants were carefully and lovingly packaged. The way a company packages their plant orders is very important to me, and it seems like a lot of companies are failing in this area these days. Thank you, Oakes, for providing a healthy, beautiful product without incident. You’ll be seeing me around!
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Jamie Collins (verified owner) –
I recently received my order and planted. I thought for sure I’d have to wait until next season to see a flower but much to my surprise I got one in less than a month. It’s the sweetest little bloom. I’m already loving this purchase. I’m in zone 9b and it’s Oct 26. Worth every penny so far!
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The cutest little flower
Jamie Collins (verified owner) –
I planted this less than one month ago and it’s already blooming. And it’s so sweet! I live in zone 9b and it’s Oct 26. What a wonder surprise to get a bloom already. I thought I’d have to wait.
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Amy Minson (verified owner) –
Planted 9/19/2022 blooming on 10/18/2022 in an area that get very little sun in fall through winter.
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Gene –
Before one says the bloom is done, fair Bitsy blooms another one, and another one and another…….from May til September and then October will end the fun. But not for long when she races to outshine a returning sun. East Central North Dakota Zone 4 Jamestown
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Tim Clark –
I got Bitsy as an accidental mix-up in an order that Oakes happily corrected by sending the correct plant I ordered. But, I’m so happy to have Bitsy in my garden! It blooms extra early and then reblooms and reblooms until fall. I am writing this on September 25th and, in zone 6, I noticed two new bloom scapes coming up on Bitsy yesterday! Love it!
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Henry Moore (verified owner) –
This has a beautiful, tiny flower. It grows vigorously in North Florida, zone 9. I would highly recommend!
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lazzins (verified owner) –
The foliage reached 20 inches tall, and the blooms come in at 2 feet. Very prolific. It is only 2 years old and will probably need dividing next year. I am in zone 6B in PA. it is the end of September and still blooming. Have about 25 buds left to open.
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Carolyn Murphy –
Bitsy has been in bloom in my Central Texas garden since mid-May and is still going strong. It is my most reliable bloomer-very hardy and very prolific bloomer. Small but powerful!
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myfairyscloset (verified owner) –
First to bloom in my Zone 9A, inland San Diego County (Ramona) garden within a couple of weeks of planting in a brand new flower bed. I chose this variety for the very front of the bed and it is a perfect, clear yellow. Happy and bright. I’m attaching a close up and another from a distance. I have 8 or 9 of this plant at the front of the border. I can’t wait to see how this variety fills in and blooms in the next 3 months and then next year. The reviews on this plant led to this purchase and I thank all the reviewers for their insights and photos. They have been so helpful in my selection of different varieties of daylilies. In San Diego, we see Stellas EVERYWHERE and I don’t have any of that (common) golden yellow in my new garden. Never had crazy blooming with the Stellas in any of my previous flower beds. Much more hopeful now. Thanks, Oakes and fellow Daylily reviewers!
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Karen Jerger (verified owner) –
I received Bitsy as a free plant with my 2021 order (late season). Planted under my Red maple and this year early May in Texas Zone 8b she is blooming.
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Jennifer (verified owner) –
This March, when I was missing the blooms of spring down here in Florida (not that they were actually blooming up north), I spotted a few cheerful yellow faces of my Bitsy daylilies. Now, beginning May, they are still blooming! They seem to love the dry, sandy soil and hot afternoons here, when some of my other daylilies are struggling. Small but amazing!
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bwelchz7 (verified owner) –
I ordered Bitsy for my Atlanta, GA garden along with several other daylilies during the fall sale last year. It was a spindly little thing, and this spring only had one single solitary bloom on a tiny 8 inch high scape. By far the poorest performer of the bunch for this order. Well, now it’s early Fall, a year since I put it in the ground, the leaves have thickened up, and it has put up 3 tall, 28-30 inch scapes with about 10 blooms apiece! It looks like Bitsy is making up for lost time. I expect great things come Spring.
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Robert Tucker (verified owner) –
I love this daylily. The blooms and small but call your attention to them even from a distance. I have been impressed with the large number of blooms and it is perfect when planted with red daylilies.
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Anthony Callison –
Although they come short or tall,
Big and small,
If I could only have one daylily
It would be ‘Bitsy’.
A A Callison.
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Colleen Paschall (verified owner) –
I planted this daylily October 2020. It started blooming in April of 2021 and it’s almost September. It has literally never stopped blooming. I have at least one flower on this plant every single day. I love this variety. It’s like a little ray of sunshine in my summer droughted garden. 8a
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Shelley Tibbs (verified owner) –
I received Bitsy as a bonus with my order. It sent up bloomstalks after only a month in the ground, and it has the most adorable daylilies I have ever seen. They are so sweet and tiny and cute!
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Patricia –
Bitsy is the earliest daylily in my garden. It has thin leaves, tall scapes, and many flowers. It is now the end of July, and Bitsy is putting forth her second round of blooms
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Marilyn Sieber (I “inherited” responsibility for this garden in April 2019) –
Bitsy was planted approx 12 yrs ago in the formal daylily garden of our Master Gardener Demo garden in Maryville IL (outside St Louis). Its scapes are more like 28-30 inches, and IT IS STILL BLOOMING STRONG in mid October! (We had a long hot Sept, but still…) Definitely a variety to choose just for the astonishing bloom season.
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Carol Peterson –
Just wanted to mention, that while other reviews say Bitsy runs shorter … the scapes on mine were 28″ without any spring fertilizer. I planted it in the front of the garden, expecting a shorter daylily, and when it bloomed at 28″ it was still perfect with its sparkling little blooms floating above shorter plants. Because the blooms are smaller, and the foliage is short and delicate, it did not overwhelm the front of the border … And blooming weeks earlier than other daylilies, I was glad to have it up close to enjoy. A little treasure!!
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Carol Peterson –
Incredible!!! Planted just a year ago, Bitsy has been blooming for 3 weeks and has 48 more buds!! Here in Maine, June is extremely early for day lilies, and Happy Returns (which is supposed to be extra early) hasn’t even begun to bloom yet. *Bitsy* is a cheerful, bright little trooper … Can’t believe the length of bloom time, and number of blooms!!!! Now one of my favorites!
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[email protected] (verified owner) –
I purchased Bitsy this spring and have been enjoying it’s dainty little cherry blooms for several weeks now. The plants are grass-like and so far the scapes haven’t topped 12 inches (which may simply be due to being its first year). For some reason I mistook this for a taller cultivar and planted it on the backside of a bed which I’ll look at correcting in the early fall. Other than this mistake on my part it’s a beautiful little daylily that would be perfect along the front of a bed or lining a sidewalk.
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Electric City, WA –
This may be my all time favorite daylily. While the color may not be all that eye-catching, I personally love the clear, lemon yellow color. Best yet, it is almost always in bloom! I also like the very green, grass-like foliage – the plant looks good even on the rare occasion it is not blooming. This is just a great daylily – much, much better than Stella which I don’t particularly care for.
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Corry, PA –
Corry, P.A. – I was shocked at how fast this daylily got adjusted to where i planted it last fall and sent up 3 scapes with plenty of flowers on it! It’s a must have if you like daylilys such as happy returns that are short to the ground and bloom a lot.
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Axis, AL (verified owner) –
Bitsy bloomed the first year it was planted. It is a pretty lemon yellow.
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Moss Point, MS –
Bitsy is an unassuming little jewel. Beautiful little perfect flowers on fairly tall scapes. Planted in July in partial shade and it bloomed in about 3 weeks. It is still blooming one at a time, but that’s not bad for the first yr. Did I mention how generous and healthy all of the daylily clumps were that I ordered? Even my husband was impressed.
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Watertown, MA –
This little beauty blooms and reblooms and then reblooms again. In my collection, it’s far and away the earliest to flower, and then it’s far and away the latest to still be blooming. The flowers are really small – hence the name – and the plant is very delicate looking. When I first planted this one, I split up the huge fan I received and spread the plants around in the garden. Since the plants and the flowers are so small, I think it would have been better to mass them all together. Next time I have to divide up the daylily bed, I’ll correct that mistake and move all the Bitsy’s together.
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Las Vegas, NV –
Absolutely spectacular! I planted 4 fans on March 5, 2011; the first blooms were on April 11, and to date (May 16, 2011) we ahve had 132 flowers with some yet to come. These are beautiful miniatures that liven up our fron planter – a must have for sure.
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Bloomington, MN –
This is my 15th Anniversary with “Bitsy.” I had not a bud Year 1; I bought 1 “Bitsy” as a trial, and it seemed to disappear Year 2. Year 3 was the microburst that shaved everything off at ground level. I was going to can it – but saw the shoots coming up. Today I have a dozen mature plants in that area – all from that one struggling plant. And the dark green stems with the purest of yellow is just sooooo beautiful and calming. It has been blooming in my garden since late April (strange weather). Definitely the longest bloomer I have, ..and a 10!
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newport, RI –
Nice little flower on tall scapes,best rebloomer.Better all around plant than stella if you are looking for a small rebloomer.
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Galva, IL –
Bitsy looks good in a cottage garden because of the branching. The color is a true lemon yellow and the leaves are thin.
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Longmont, CO –
Bitsy is so cute and so prolific! I received it last spring (2008) and although it grew lots of leaves, it did not bloom that spring or summer. It tried in October, but got hit with winter weather before the buds opened. This spring it came on very early with the first flowers opening on May 15th! It is very striking looking even though it is a small flower because the stems are so dark, almost wine colored! Love it!
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Altadena, CA –
I got my Bitsy’s in September, one had a bud on it and bloomed in October. Now it’s January and all three have bloomed and the first one is still blooming… I want more!
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Goodlettsville, TN –
Bitsy was a bonus plant, received with my fall order. Since I did not have the ideal spot in the bed for such a small plant, I put it into a medium sized pot and set it on a large rock, nestled among some larger daylilies. Of course Bitsy was the first daylily to bloom this spring with many brightly colored sunbrusts of blooms; so welcome. Am expecting more with the rebloom. Bitsy is a very rewarding little daylily.
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The Villages, FL –
I received my daylily order in the very beginning of April and put them right in. We have had so little rain here that almost all they get is sprinkler water twice a week. My little Bitsys are already blooming their little yellow heads off and it’s only the beginning of May! I’m so thrilled! I can’t wait to see how the rest of my order will do. They all look strong and vigorous. Judy Bonn
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Murfreesboro, TN –
Perfect for the border! Blooms reliably from early May into October here in middle Tennessee. I can’t imagine being without little ‘Bitsy’.
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Oxford, MS –
Of all my many daylilies, this one is the first to bloom this season—April 29, 2005!
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Pensacola, FL –
I recieved and planted these daylilies mid-September the week before Hurricane Ivan hit our region. They started blooming almost immediately and still had blooms on them at Christmas when sleet stopped them. They were so bright in an otherwise ravaged landscape. Can’t wait to see what they do this spring!
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Sparks, NV –
I love this daylily. The blooms on mine were more golden than lemon, which goes beautifully with the black buds, stems and scapes.
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Owensboro, KY –
This variety is always the first of my daylilies to bloom. I love the branching of this variety because it is so graceful. The cheerful yellow blooms always annouce May is finally here. It is a joy to grow!
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Philadelphia, TN –
For the sheer joy of yellow, plant one of these.
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