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Written by Kristen Waggener   
Wednesday, 01 July 2009 07:00
Pinks and oranges and yellows and purples.

Lois Hart’s daylilies bloomed with bright colors over the weekend as she opened her Hart’s Delight gardens to visitors for her yearly daylily tour and sale Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Local residents and visitors from across the Kansas City area traveled to her rural Louisburg home to experience more than 800 varieties of daylilies spread across several gardens.

Hart’s trusty Primal Scream — a rich, bright orange and yellow flower — was the star of the show. The daylily and its grower are featured in the current issue of Kansas City Gardener magazine, drawing carfuls of gardening enthusiasts to Hart’s Delight to see the flower.

“It all starts with the orange ditch lily,” Hart said. “And this is nothing but a ditch lily.”

New this year, Hart put in an additional garden full of tomatoes, lettuce and daylilies that weren’t doing so well in the shade.

“I moved 100 daylilies down to my new garden,” she said.

Also new are regular lilies that bloom for several days; the daylilies blooms last one day before they fall off.

This year, after the cold and rainy weather, Hart said, she was thankful that most of her daylilies began blooming in time for the annual tour. Less than a week before, she wasn’t so sure they’d show their colorful faces.

“Four or five days ago, I didn’t have even 200 of my 800 in bloom,” Hart said.

But the lilies didn’t disappoint, and a variety of colors was on full display last weekend.

Hart first began growing daylilies in 1992 and adds a variety or two each year. She also sells root stems of older varieties to visitors.

“I just think they’re so pretty,” she said.
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