The flowers come in a multitude of color combinations, including yellow, orange, rose, burgundy, purple, pink, cream, lavender, red and many others. Daylilies have three types of foliage habit.

But I knew for sure you couldn’t get pink, purple and white daylilies in, at that time, 75 years of breeding. So I figured the pictures I saw were doctored.

In the 16 years since she opened the nursery, her customers have often begun conversations by telling her that they want only pink and white blossoms. “And only three-foot-tall peonies with big ...