The Day Lily Cottage

This wonderful daylily has a high intensity flower with a brilliant coral-rose color with a full round form and a heavily ruffled gold edge. Smooth wax-like texture and heavy substance enable this unique daylily cultivar to be as radiant at the end of the day as it is during the morning hours.

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Scapes are 25″, [...]

Now that spring is well and truly sprung and summer is fast approaching it’s time to start appreciating the wide variety of daylilies starting to bloom.
Below is a beautiful example of a Darla Anita daylily.

Some information on the Darla Anita;
This daylily has an extreme, ruffled, edge.
This light lavender-mauve blend is complimented by an exotic edge. Large, heavy, [...]

Day Lilies are fascinating from any distance but they are particularly interesting up close. Up close we can see that the flower parts include several stamens (the pollen bearing organs) and a single pistil with a three-part ovary at its base (immature seed capsule).  It is only at this close distance that we can truly appreciate the unique [...]

The annual All American Day Lily Photo Contest is underway and you could win up to $1000 just for sending in your best day lily photograph.
Simply visit www.allamericandaylilies.com, download the entry form and mail your best day lily photograph for a chance to win.
Their tips for your success are;
Move in close to the plants
compose with care
Remove [...]

Daylilies are most often propagated by division, but they can also be propagated by proliferations and by seed. Seedlings of a daylily will differ from the parent, as any child might.
Daylily seeds are easy to gather, but not all seeds are fertile. Some plants may be sterile and never produce seeds, some may be fertile [...]

Daylilies are among the most carefree and easy-to-grow perennials, but just like roses, they will give to you what is given to them. They need regular water and some nutrients to thrive on and you will  be amazed at their performance. It is also nice to know that if left alone in the garden, they will [...]

People all over the world successfully grow day lilies, the beautiful example below thrived in the long hours of summer sunshine in Finland… The photographer had the following to say about his wonderful image:  Hemerocallis has loved the recent long lasting Finnish heat wave with occasional rains and is glowing in the afternoon sun at its [...]

These Day Lily is a perennial plant known as Hemerocallis. The name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words hÄ“mera “day” and kalos “beautiful” and it’s a true statement that any day a Day Lily blooms is a beautiful day! The flowers of most species open at sunrise and wither at sunset, possibly replaced by another one on the [...]

1. What Your Expectations Should Be;
The basis for a great day lily is all in the root system, always check that what you receive has firm roots. Day Lily roots should be long, slender and fibrous occasionally they may be enlarged into spindle-shaped tubers with additional roots at their bases.
2. What Type Should I Plant?
Although [...]

Daylilies can be grown in USDA plant hardiness zones 1 through 11, making them some of the most adaptable landscape plants. Most of the known Day Lilies have been developed within the last 100 years. The large-flowered clear yellow ‘Hyperion’, introduced in the 1920s, heralded a return to gardens of the once-dismissed daylily, and is still widely [...]