July's Photo Challenge: Daylilies
Saturday June 27, 2009
June’s Photo Challenge, Unusual Containers, is just about to close and winners will be featured in a couple of weeks. For July, we’re turning to the #1 flower for gardeners, new and experienced, Daylilies. Four different readers suggested daylilies, when we were collecting suggestions for novice gardeners, and I don’t think I’ve seen a garden without at least one. There are thousands to choose from, so get out your camera.
Photos can showcase a beautiful flower, an interesting combination or even a problem your daylilies are experiencing. Since daylilies only bloom for 1 day, the plants are constantly changing.
The deadline for this contest is July 31st. Challenge winners will be announced August 10th.
Photo Submitted by Shahzad Ahmed.
Comments
My mother garden had “Lemon Lilies” which I think were a type of daylily, but we very delicate, not a coarse petal structure. I have never seen them again. Can you tell me where to find them?
I know in New England Hemerocallis flava is called the Lemon Lily. They bloom a little earlier than most daylilies and have a soft scent. Toranto Gardens has a nice blog about them.
I found them listed at Horsford Nursery and Romance Gardens
Daylillies are my favorite, even after 20 years of gardening. But be cautioned that the deer do like to nibble off the buds. I cope with deer netting and repellants, but even so, I lose some blooms every year.
That just means that I have to have twice as many plants to compensate for the blooms the deer take!
I found out that if you mix a package of the egg yoke eggbeaters with a gallon of water and spray everything around where the deer visit it will keep them away from your plants.
Wow, Bud, that’s a quick and thrifty way to make your own organic deer spray. Thanks for the idea.