How to Grow Pardancanda Plants

Guide to Growing Candy Lily

Pardancanda are hardy perennials that reach from 60 to 90 cm in height; this makes them ideal for use in garden borders.

Pardancanda bloom in the summer and carry saucer shaped flowers.

Pardancanda norrisii
Candylily × Pardancanda norrisii by John Brandauer.

Growing and Care Guide

Common Names: Pardancanda. Candy Lily.
Life Cycle: Hardy perennial.
Height: 24 to 36 inches (60—90 cm).
Native: China.
Growing Region: Zones 5 to 10.
Flowers: Summer.
Flower Details: Lily-like. Saucer shaped. Produces numerous bright colors from the same clump; pink, orange, red, yellow. Often freckled.
Fruit: Small black berries that look great in flower arrangements.
Foliage: Sword-shaped.
Sow Outside: Seeds: Cover seed. Early spring, or early autumn.
Sow Inside: Mix seeds in a moist growing medium, place in a freezer bag, then stratify by refrigeration for one week. Germination time: two weeks. Temperature: 70 to 85°F (21—29°C). Ten weeks in advance. Transplant outdoors before the last frost or in autumn. Spacing 12 inches (30 cm).
Requirements and care: Full sunlight. Grows well in most soil, but can become tall and require staking in rich soils. Moist soil. Regular watering during dry periods. Cut back to the ground in autumn. Light winter mulch in cold areas. Propagate: by dividing in the spring. Unlikely to stay true from seed.

How to Grow Pardancanda

Pardancanda can be grown outdoors either from roots or seeds and should be sown in either early spring or early autumn. Bury the roots at about 5 to 7 cm. Tthe pardancanda seeds can be sown on the surface.

Ideally the Pardancanda should be grown in a sunny part of the garden that has a moist soil.

If starting off Pardancanda in a green house then do so about ten weeks in advance.

First the Pardancanda seeds should be imbibed by placing the seeds (within soil) in a black bag, then placing in the fridge for one week. Seeds should then put out at a temperature of 21 to 30 Celsius; they normally take about two weeks to germinate.

Seedlings should be transplanted into the garden either at the end of autumn or before the last frost of spring.