Day Lily in Our City Garden – Nature and Wildlife 13

Painting in front of garden

We saw the sign of kids lying on the grass when we enter public garden in our city. Long time, we did not visit this little garden.

There are plenty of blooming daylily. The word “daylily” refers to flower which open in the sunrise and die at night.

Since its stem has plenty flower buds, so blooming could take many weeks. Color combinations may be more than hundreds in the world, but we saw several dominant colors in our city garden:

- orange

- rose

- burgundy

- purple

- pink

- cream

- lavender

Yellow daylily

Flowering occur in the Spring until early Summer in our place. Other place could be till Fall season. We don’t know the number of varieties in our area, but around 80,000 varieties in the world.

Dominic Daylily

Daylily are adaptable plants, they spread to almost part of USA, and even in Canada. The well known species called Hemerocallis fulva.

Orange with mix colors

If we lucky enough, we may notice wild daylily, especially orange ones at roadsides in many part of USA.

Orange daylily

Easy to adapt, also easy to spread into clumps. Crowd daylily may not bloom, thus we need to divide regularly. Some people do it for every three years.

Have you experienced to grow daylily? What color?