Gardeners are spending more time in their gardens than ever before. And it shows. Because they’re staying home more, they’re tending the plants they already have, but they are also adding new plants ...

So daylilies are not really lilies? We hate to burst flower bubbles, but daylilies are really not lilies at all. Daylilies belong to the Hemerocallis family (Day beauty), while Lilies belong to the ...

Although not a true lily, the day lily is a member of the lily family. Its botanical name, Hemerocallis, is derived from two Greek words meaning "day" and "beauty" and refers to the fact that day lily ...

Daylily clumps become root-bound eventually, running out of fertile, loose soil to expand into. Their blossom production is directly tied to root growth, which is why newly planted daylilies bloom ...

In nature, many beautiful things are fleeting. Such is the case with the daylily, with flowers that last for no more than one day. Luckily, daylilies are profuse bloomers producing a new flower each ...

Daylilies are so named because each flower only lasts for such a short time — sometimes truly only a day, sometimes for a few days. Ever heard of a daylily? Each stem bears many flowers — anywhere ...

The daylily, a popular perennial flower in residential gardens and along country roads, blooms for only a single day. The famous botanist, Linnaeus classified the daylily in the genus “Hemerocallus” ...

Question: This is a photo of our daylily. The flowers are beautiful, but the leaves are striped with brown. Do you know what’s wrong with it and what we can do to keep it from happening in the future?

ALBANY – Daylilies come and daylilies go, with the blooms lasting 24 hours, as fate would have it. But the growing of the flower is an experience that can last a lifetime. Such is the case for Jean ...

If you get artist and daylily hybridizer Scott Bennett started about two of his passions, even he realizes the similarities are uncanny. As a hybridizer, Bennett takes two existing daylilies, creates ...