This guide offers hints on growing daylilies, discusses site selection, varieties, propagation and planting and plant culture. Their range in size, color, and use means that there is a daylily for almost everyone. However, a single plant may produce over 50 flowers. This large number of flowers can extend the blooming period of a plant for several weeks. With over 10,000 cultivars available and with periods of bloom available from very early to late in the season, daylilies can be blooming in a garden with the iris in the spring and continue through the fall chrysanthemums.
Daylilies are some of the most tolerant and popular of the garden perennials.
The individual daylily flowers can range from 2 to 8 inches in diameter. They may have a single ring of petals or double rows. The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled. Flower color can range from creamy-white to deep mahogany, with nearly every shade of yellow, orange and pink in between. There are also polychromes, with blends of related shades, and bi-color and eyed flowers that combine different hues.