The best way to find daylilies for your own garden? PICK ONE YOU LIKE!
See them growing! Visit a display garden (Here's how to locate an Offical AHS Display Garden near you) or blooming in a friend's garden or blooming at the nursery, so you know exactly how the plant behaves.
Keep in mind some daylilies have much healthier foliage than others, some have more blooms per scape (stem) than others, some simply stand out better than others. Some are more vigorous and some more cold hardy, too. Take yours home as a bare root plant or one already started in a pot. They do equally well over the long run once planted in the garden.
Many plants are now being developed and/or grown on in Florida because the climate allows for faster production, although they may have been bred from northern stock. Time will tell if these accelerated plants will perform consistently in northern gardens. Quality conscious hybridizers will keep garden performance in mind as well as looks and the "finer points" of breeding firsts.
Most daylilies are great performers,and today's beauty contest medal winners will come down in price as their newness wears off. That's great for gardeners because it means we can find oodles of reasonably priced high performance plants in colors, sizes and styles to suit our tastes and design schemes. Summer is high season for daylilies, so if you don't have any daylilies, GO GET SOME!
And if you already grow some daylilies, YOU NEED MORE! (But you already knew that.)
There's ALWAYS room for "just a few" more. Here's a classically elegant solution to how to cram in just another thousand or so.)
Daylilies are (almost) all wonderful. You'll never have too many. Just please do me favor and look beyond the Stella d'Oro's, ok?
Just to reiterate that my taste is impeccable, and so of course you simply must take my word for it about Stella, here are two golden wonders that appeared without fanfare in my own garden this week:
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