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from JaMi's Garden
Daylilies
I
heard someone say “If it has hosta and daylilies, it’s probably a
midwestern garden!”. Well,
although the daylily originated in China, it has adapted very well to the
harsh and unforgiving heartland climate.
Time and again we have seen the orange survivors growing near long
abandoned farms attesting to their tenacity.
Today there are over 30,000 introduced cultivates in colors ranging the
spectrum except for blue. Some
have a distinctive vanilla-like scent.
Sizes range from 10” high to a towering 40-48” high.
Some cultivars are reblooming like Stella D’Oro and Happy Returns
which won the 2001 Growers Choice Award.
Daylilies are deer resistant, disease resistant, pest resistant and
drought tolerant. They
multiply year after year so you can share them with others.
Daylilies bloom at the same time as Phlox, Rudbeckia, Coneflower, Liatris,
and Russian Sage.
If you plant daffodils in your daylily pad, the new foliage of the lily
hides the fading foliage of the daffodils.
Daylilies work well on slopes. Their
root systems provide excellent erosion prevention.
Have you ever tried using a daylily as vertical accent in a container
garden?
And
who knows? Now that orange is
the new hot color in gardens and in home decorating, we may just see some
“shovel shopping” going on at those abandoned farms.
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