Chicago Ruby Daylily
$14.99 each, 3 for $39.99
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* 6″ bloom, 27″ tall, Mid Season, Semi-Evergreen
‘Chicago Ruby’ is easily one of our favorite red daylilies. Big, 6″ blooms of deep ruby red with a small yellow throat grows on scapes well over 2′ tall in our East Tennessee garden. We love its knock-out color but especially appreciate the fact that it’s a vigorous grower that produces lots of blooms on a robust plant. You cannot go wrong with Chicago Ruby!
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* 6″ bloom, 27″ tall, Mid Season, SEV
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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, you get to choose what you’d like at checkout.
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.
Stena Swanson (verified owner) –
Purchased in 2020 had a beautiful full set of escapes by 2021 season. Produced tons of beautiful, rich red blooms which lasted from July through August.
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Gorgeous Red Chicago Ruby
JeanneHensley (verified owner) –
I received these about six weeks ago, beautiful color, lots of blooms
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Arma, KS –
I received this as my free gift for an order that I placed this spring. The plant was big enough so that I could divide it. When I planted the halves during the latter half of April we were having an unusual dry spell. Then during Mid-May we had a late frost. I’m 55 and can never remember such a late frost. So needless to say the spring weather was not kind to my new lilies. Nevertheless Chicago Ruby has performed like a real gem! On the bigger plant I had three scapes with a total of ten flowers. All were of nice size and quality. What was interesting was due to the spring weather the plants never has had much foliage so when the one bloomed it seemed a bit out of proportion but that’s fine with me. I can’t wait until next year to see what it will do. I would recommend this cultivar to anyone who likes large red flowers! Its a real performer in the face of not so great weather!
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Coeur D’ Alene, ID –
I have had this daylily in my garden for 14 years. Even though it is an sev it has proven to be absolutely hardy here in north Idaho where the temps can go back and forth from rain and 40 degrees to 0 degrees overnight all winter. It is a very bright red, always opens well and formed a large clump fairly quickly. I consider it one of the best of the true reds that I have seen.
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Galva, IL –
This lily is sensitive to the year’s weather in size and color. With the huge rains this year, it is absolutely beautiful: huge, a clear crayon red, and very tall scapes. It holds it’s color in sun and heat. The flower is tough and does not easily damage.
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Kansas City, MO –
The jury is still out on this one. The color consistency was not there. The flowers ranged from a vivid bright red to a muddy orange/red. This was the first year in the garden for them so I will hold my final judgement for a year.
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kirkwood, MO –
Wow! Beautiful burgundy red blooms that do not fade in the full sun along my driveway. Very vigorous plants. Since the purchase of 1 plant 4 years ago and several divisions, I now have a mass planting that is stunning. Each plant has produced at least 50 huge blooms so far and more buds are opening every day.
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Clifton Park, NY –
I love this one! The flowers are very robust and the color is superb. This tetrapoid has developed into a large clump very quickly.
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