Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Neck of the Woods CHAT Summer 2013 Part 2, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Buttoneer---
WHY do you call these "Ditch Lilies"?????
Could they not be some sort of a Hybrid Day Lily?

If they, truly, originated from "Ditch Lillys"--how can they become something else so beautiful?

Maybe this question should be addressed to "Lovesdaylilies"....
YOOOO---HOOOOO---are you there????

I keep ending up with clumps of DL that colonize too much space-and then don't bloom.
Then--I have to dig them up--and now I have different containers of bulbs to share.
I need those spaces for new things....DG has so much to offer through Swaps--
and i have yo always say "No Thanks--I don't have room!"
I suppose--my best goal would be to have a FEW spectacular DL's and not clumps of so-so
Daffs and Wood Hyacinths and Tete-a-Tetes....as well as Grape Hyacinths--all over creation.
These NEVER quit!!!
I KNOW color is beautiful--but then having to deal with all the dying off foliage is a pain in the A....!

There is so much out there tempting me! All the trades and offers....cuttings of this and that....AAAAGGHH..

Gita....;o(


Thanks, Gita
I have a couple clumps of these as well---Are these also a version of Ditch Lilies???
These bloom later than the others...This clump is by my shed...