Daylilies

Daylilies For Your Garden
The Daylily an almost perfect perennial
One of my favorite garden flowers is the Daylily sometimes mistakenly referred to as Day Lily. Daylilies are hardy and easy to grow in just about any climate and used as a border or in groupings in many gardens around the world. The beautiful picture on the left was done by artist Mary Lou Corn. Titled Orange Daylilies this piece of art looks like live flowers. I'll give you a link to her website below. I'll also cover the growing of Daylilies and give you some examples of where to...

Best Daylilies - Hemerocallis Flava, Stella de Oro...
Perfect Perennials
Tough, versatile and graceful, daylilies are long-flowering too, despite their name. Each flower may only last a day, but new buds appear in quick succession for weeks or even months. Depending on the variety, they will open into double, ruffled, diamond-dusted, spidery or trumpet-shaped flowers. Daylily colors range from nearly white to nearly black, with only true blue missing. Perhaps that's why they're often called the perfect perennials.

Double Daylilies - Hemerocallis
Although double daylilies do exist in the wild, these are sterile, and today's doubles have been bred from single daylilies. There are now nearly 3000 of them and what they lack in simple elegance they make up for with brighter colors and fuller flowers. Here are some of the best and the most popular. Note that many double dayliles will produce single flowers only, at the start of the season or in cool weather.

Reblooming Daylilies - Hemerocallis
Everblooming Daylilies
They might be called perfect perennials, but dayliles do seem to have one big downside; their short-flowering season. Unless, that is, they are reblooming daylilies. These relatively new hybrids, which began appearing in the 1990s, will follow a first flush of flowers with many more sometimes all summer long right up to the first frost. Sometimes, they are called everblooming daylilies, recurrrent blooming daylilies, continuous blooming daylilies, repeat-flowering daylilies, or even - mistak...