What else can I possibly have left to say about Daylilies? Oh please – I have barely scratched the surface! I could go on and on about how easy they are to take care of, how they increase year after year so you can pass your extras along to friends, how they can keep your gardens full of color from the earliest part of summer to the latest part of fall, how you can always find another gorgeous cultivar that you just gotta have.
This on is called Erin Farmer – a beautiful bi-tone that has shades of pink, gold and peach and it even smells good.
This is one of my favorites – it is called Long Stocking and it is a spider form. For someone who abhors actual spiders, I am very attached to spider form daylilies – they are my new obsession within an obsession.
This is Pink Embers – a very popular “landscaper’s” plant because it blooms early and then puts out a second flush of bloom in the late fall. It also increases really fast and I am pretty sure it takes the overall prize for most blooms in a year – in my garden anyway.
This is one that I have had for a long time and I never get tired of it. It is called Sombrero Way and this one also reblooms very late if we don’t get an early frost.
Another spider form and yellow to boot – a definitely favorite of mine. It is called Spider Miracle and it is also one of the biggest ones I have at around 8.5 to 9 inches across.
This last one is not a great photo since I took it with my camera phone. Two days before Ellyn went in the hospital to have Anna, she and I spent a lovely day in the gardens of a grower in Virginia [I would love to tell you her name and location, but it is not on the invoice. Ellyn, if you look in here and remember – leave it in the comments, ok?] and these are some of the beauties I snagged. They are all mixed together here, since I had not potted them yet, but I think there are some Tom Wise in there as well as Mary’s Gold and maybe Open Hearth. I got 7 new ones in all and one of the best parts of gardening for me is seeing the newbies come into bloom right here at my place. I will try to remember to take some pics of these guys for y’all. 
And I just may be passing my obsession on to the next generation!
very nice! I wonder if they would grow well where I live (northeast Saskatchewan, Canada). We tend to have a very short growing season.
I love them all! You’ve inspired me to plant more variety this spring. I can’t wait…thanks for sharing!
I LOVE day lillies!!
Those pics are beautiful!
these beautiful posts of yours are making me want to plant daylilies in my garden!!!
Dear dlyn,
I share your passion for gardening, don’t have any day lilies though, I think.
Some 70 cm tall Forest Lilies, who even smell good and look very art nouveau in a vase might be a day lily relative I presume.
I go out in the garden to regain strength. This fall I first bought a couple of hundreds of daffodils, snow bells, tulips etc.
Then there was this sale in November.. They were almost giving away flower bulbs by the dozens.
I filled up a large bag and placed it under roof on the terrace.
My Mom always say they need a frosty night to blossom. Well, now the earth finally has become soft enough for me to make some holes
and put the bulbs where they belong.
The other spring flowers are already stretching out and up. The daffodils even showing some shy yellow-greenish buds.
I guess it was Cicero who said,”If you’ve got a garden and a library, you don’t need anything more”.
I can more level with the ancient Romans than modern American politics. I simply don’t get them.
Even so they have far more than a butterfly effect on us living on the far side of the sea.
We’ll just have to relate to whatever choice the American voters make.
Have a blessed Sunday From Felisol
I have to admit, it was a little jarring to see daylilies in February. Could it PLEASE be spring soon so that I can enjoy the ones in my garden? Thanks!
BTW, I have Pink Embers and Stella de Oro hanging out on my hillside. I heart them both.
I have to admit, it was a little jarring to see daylilies in February. Could it PLEASE be spring soon so that I can enjoy the ones in my garden? Thanks!
BTW, I have Pink Embers and Stella de Oro hanging out on my hillside. I heart them both.