The day before Christmas my friend Brian e-mailed me a list of plants that were blooming in his garden, in England. I e-mailed back that it had been a couple of weeks since the temperature had risen as high as the freezing point, it had snowed, and there was more snow in the forecast. And there was nothing in bloom in my garden, nor likely to be for some time. Then I grabbed the nearest cat and went to sit by the wood-burning stove with a mug of hot tea and some gardening books. If I can't even find the garden for the snow at least I can read, and dream.
Modern cultivars have numerous buds, adding good color to the garden.
Perhaps you thought that daylilies must be rather similar, with yellow to orange to reddish flowers. If that's so, you're thinking of the wild tawny daylilies massed along the roadside in early summer. It is time to take another look. The bulk of the book is given over to spectacular color photographs, each with a lengthy caption providing the cultivar's name, its parentage, bloom time, height as size of flower. And, with the appendix of sources provided at the back of the book, you can place an order for planting when spring finally rolls around.