Golden Tear Drops is a tetraploid daylily that brings elegant fragrance and showy golden blooms to gardens across hardiness zones 3 to 9. This perennial reaches 24 to 30 inches tall and spreads 18 to 24 inches wide, flowering reliably from May through July. It thrives in full sun to partial shade with moderate water and minimal maintenance, making it a low-fuss addition to borders, containers, and naturalized plantings. The flowers attract butterflies and other pollinators while tolerating challenging conditions like erosion, rabbit pressure, and urban stress.
Partial Sun
Moderate
3-9
30in H x 24in W
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Golden Tear Drops produces delicately fragrant, showy flowers that open in succession throughout late spring and early summer, drawing butterflies and other pollinators to the garden. As a tetraploid variety, it carries the genetic vigor and often larger, more substantial blooms that breeders sought when developing modern daylilies. This cultivar handles heat, humidity, and poor soil with remarkable ease while remaining virtually pest-free, making it one of the most dependable perennials for gardeners seeking beauty without fuss.
Golden Tear Drops serves as an ornamental flowering perennial for garden borders, mixed beds, containers, and naturalized plantings. Its low maintenance, fragrant blooms, and ability to tolerate poor soil and urban conditions make it particularly valuable in challenging growing sites where other perennials struggle. The plant's appeal to butterflies and other pollinators also makes it a choice for pollinator gardens and wildlife-focused landscapes.
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Remove spent flowers daily for neatness. Cut down flower stalks once blooming has completed to maintain a tidy appearance. Divide plants every 3 to 4 years in spring or fall to rejuvenate growth and maintain flowering vigor.
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“Daylilies as a genus originated in Asia and central Europe, where species plants have grown for centuries. Modern daylilies, however, are almost entirely hybrids, the result of deliberate breeding efforts to expand the range of flower colors, shapes, and patterns available to gardeners. Hybridizers developed tetraploid varieties, which carry doubled chromosome sets compared to diploid plants, often producing larger flowers and increased vigor. Golden Tear Drops represents this long tradition of daylily improvement, bred to combine the ornamental qualities gardeners desire with the adaptability and hardiness the genus is known for.”