Daylilies

Picture yourself on a hot midsummer day gazing from your host’s terrace onto the brilliantly colored day-lily border shown above.  You are told that there was a good display in

Nobody will deny daylilies have beautiful flowers, and few would quibble over the statement that their foliage has landscape merit.  But to get the best landscape effect from daylilies, we

Some remote parts of Northeastern Oklahoma are as primitive today as a century ago when Comanche Indians and buffalo roamed the rocky oak-covered hillsides and verdant valleys. But most of

If your community does not have a daylily show, why not start the ball rolling for one this summer? Your gardening friends are probably waiting for someone to propose the

It is easy to explain today’s great popularity of the hemerocallis or daylily, to use its better-known name, and to understand why interest in it is growing by leaps and

Under normal conditions, day-blooming daylilies open their flowers in the morning.  To orient their opening with a time of day, season, and latitude, several varieties were checked on May 1,

Now you can have daylilies in miniature, too!  Almost everyone thinks of the modern daylily hybrid as a robust and vigorous perennial that requires a lot of space, but a

They’re pink! And there’s a variety to match every shade in the color chart. Many garden writers still speak of daylilies “in so-called red shades.” However, if they haven’t seen

How should one use the dark daylilies—dusky sirens of the daylily family? Yellow and orange daylilies are supreme for landscaping large areas. But in the small home garden, a dark