Daylilies Ideas, Tips & Guides

Whether your plants produce pink, yellow, or orange flowers, knowing when to cut back daylilies can keep these perennials looking tidy and blooming well. Though each flower is only open for a single day, daylilies are a much-loved perennial around the world. In this article, you’ll learn about three different times to cut your daylily plants back to keep them in tip-top shape.

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From manicured flower beds to soggy ditches, daylilies are hardy stunners that lend their beauty to versatile settings in your garden. Emerging in many colors, these typically bloom in the mornings and recur with little care. Let’s check out some delicious landscaping ideas with daylilies!

Daylily flowers only last a day, but what joy they bring to the garden!

Should You Deadhead Daylilies?

Today’s photos are from Lee:

When and How to Transplant Daylilies

If you are seeing a deer like the above picture, having a tempting look at the succulents that you have grown in your garden, then keep reading my friend!

We’re back in Massachusetts today, visiting Tingshu Hu’s garden. We saw her front garden in July yesterday, and today we’re moving to the back garden in high summer.

Today we’re visiting with Harriet Robinson:

We’re in Beeton, Ontario, today, visiting Marina. We’ve been to her beautiful garden before (Marina’s Garden in Beeton, Ontario) when it was just a few years old, and we’re back today to see how it has thrived and grown since then.

Today’s photos are from Susan Warde in St. Paul, Minnesota (Zone 4b).

Welcome to the vibrant world of yellow lilies and delve into the tapestry of emotions and symbolism they bring to every occasion. As one of the most captivating flowers in the floral kingdom, yellow lilies are more than just eye-catching blooms; they are the bearers of happiness, positivity, and even healing in various cultures. Whether you’re interested in Yellow Lily Meaning or the subtle differences between Types of Yellow Lilies – we have it all for you!

My name is Diane Porter, and I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. We are a Zone 5 area here, so I like pretty hardy plants. Daylilies (Hemerocallis, Zones 4–9 for most cultivars) fit my garden perfectly. I have always enjoyed gardening and  actually worked at a local garden center for a few seasons. The gardening bug hit hard!

Today we’re visiting Carla Z. Mudry in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Carla is sharing the profusion of flowers she enjoyed in her garden in July.

We’re visiting with Lilli Hazard today in southern Indiana.

Hemerocallis also called Daylilies

Gall midges,  Cecidomyiidae or midge gnats often affect Hemerocallis or Day Lilies. Midges lay their eggs on the buds which then fail to develop. The problem is caused by the midge larvae which can be 3mm long. They drop onto the soil where they overwinter as pupae and start the problem next year.

Hemerocallis better known as ‘Day Lilies’ have given a wonderful show this year!

Daylily, Hemerocallis spp., is a flowering perennial in the Asphodelaceae family that brightens summer gardens in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9.It sprouts from a rhizome and has bare, slender stems

Fast growing and long lived, colorful daylilies (Hemerocallis spp.) are tough, carefree plants with an abundance of bright flowers – and they benefit from occasional division.These herbaceous perennials fo