Interesting Information and Turkey Tracks: July 24, 2022
What’s Happening With The Daylilies?
I have A LOT of day-lilies in my garden, including many of the ”wild” orange ones, called ”ditch lilies” by some.
The front porch is lined with the gold Stella D’Ora variety, and they already bloomed. But blooming now are these redder day-lilies in places I did not plant them.
And salmon ones too.
And look what has emerged down on the driveway? I did not plant this ruffled beauty.
I did plant this reddish one—and one similar on the other end of the front deck day-lilies.
And I possibly planted this vivid day-lily along the front path.
And, there is this beauty that has been in this spot on the front path for many years.
What is going on here? I’m also noticing these later-blooming dark day-lilies in other places in the garden—sometimes mixed into the wild orange day-lilies.
Are the current plants being taken over in some way and changed? That is not supposed to happen.
So, off to research I went.
Yes, the day-lilies are ”hybridizing,” but they are NOT changing any of the established plants. What they are doing is seeding hybrids into current day-lily beds—and other places in the garden too.
The hybrids can and might overtake or crowd out the established plants, but meanwhile, they are adding interesting plants into what is already in the garden.
Good to know.
And I can always dig up what I don’t like.
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