Keep the blooms coming.

If I were to ever write a book about the lazy person’s way to garden, I would devote a section to daylilies. I’ve grown them for decades; they’ve had the longest reign of any living thing in my little ...

Few plants give us as much pleasure while asking so little as do daylilies (Hemerocallis). They are about as close as it gets to having a low- or no-maintenance plant with lovely flowers. Plus, they ...

Daylilies have three types of foliage habit. Dormant daylilies lose their foliage completely during the winter. New foliage appears in the spring. Evergreen daylilies retain their foliage throughout ...

Daylily clumps become root-bound eventually, running out of fertile, loose soil to expand into. Their blossom production is directly tied to root growth, which is why newly planted daylilies bloom ...

The daylily is one of my favorite perennial flowers. It’s an excellent plant for a negligent gardener like me. Some folks refer to the orange color daylily as a ditch lily. It’s a robust plant that ...

Amarillo’s official flower is the daylily (not day lily). Before I was introduced to the genus Hemerocallis (daylily) I really did not like them. To me daylilies were those tall, orange (bar ditch) ...

Daylilies are so named because each flower only lasts for such a short time — sometimes truly only a day, sometimes for a few days. Ever heard of a daylily? Each stem bears many flowers — anywhere ...

How many of you remember your grandmother’s yard having large clumps of bright orange or yellow daylilies? The daylily plant family group, known as Hemerocallis, has significantly increased since the ...

Daylilies do fine without deadheading, but trimming spent blooms improves aesthetics and promotes reblooming. However, you need to use the right technique.