A daylily a day…

Daylilies are some of the easiest and most rewarding of summer-flowering perennials. So, maybe everyone should be growing them, suggests Graham Clarke

Some 30 years ago I was given my first daylily (hemerocallis). It was not something I had been particularly longing for. Yes, I’d known about these plants, and yes, their flowers were OK. But I hadn’t been bowled over by them. I duly planted my gift and, in its third summer, once it was happily growing into a sizeable clump, it threw out an amazing mass of flowering stems. The variety was ‘Pink Damask’, and when I saw the impressive display of deep salmon-pink, trumpet-shaped lily-like flowers, produced in succession, I was hooked. Daylilies – and yes, each individual flower does last just one day – can be grown in any part of the garden, but they perform best in reasonably moist soil, which means that they can make luxuriant…

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Amateur Gardening (Digital) - 1 Issue, 27-Apr-2024

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