Anyone in this part of Texas grow the dormant types? I know they need some cold but I wanted to know if we can grow them here or is this a pipe dream? Plant files says yes but wanted to make for sure from someone out here who really does it!
Thanks Mitch
Dormant Daylilies in Texas?
Mitch,
I have dormant daylilies in my garden and they have done well in their first summer. It is my understanding that we can grow both dormant and evergreen but our northern friends cannot grow evergreen.
Terrie
Mitch,
I had dorment daylilies. They will grow here. My problem they do not like drought. They would go dormant before they were suppose to and because of lack of water after a few years they did not come back so you should be fine. You may have drought but you can grow things we are to hot for.
Blessings,
Sandy ^8^
M, they do disappear for me but they come back. other than that,I don't see a diff. between the two.
Good I had talked to a Northern planter who said they needed lots of cold and blow 30, I knew we are in the North of Texas so it should be fine but is Sandy can grow them in Baytown no problem here! Mitch
I am a day lily enthusist, some say to the extreme. Most of my daylilies are the dormant type and they grow beautifully here in zone 7b. I have them both in the shade and full sun. The shade plants are the most neglected as far as watering goes for me. It may take them a little longer to become as established as the ones that get regular watering, but they faithfully bloom for me. If I were to offer any advice it would be to plant them in well drained soil. Locations which collect run off water seem to rot the plants more than other areas. You're going to love this plant. FYI my favorite site to buy day lilies is www.sunshinehollow.com. These are great folks, wonderful place to visit if you're ever in Tennessee.
Thanks Grandview - I started with DLs from farm sites and now am adding them to my native beds. So far they are doing great together - but they are in Clay soil. All the water I have at the moment runs into my pond I am going to have to fix the soil out in the other beds first. I have close to 100 at the moment - just wish they were all named and not farm! I only hae one bunch of Ditch so far and have been told to get them out of there so they are on their way out.
Daylilies of both types do extremely well for me here. They say far northern gardeners should choose dormant types and far southern gardeners, like in southern Florida, should choose evergreen types. We are fortunate in that both types do well here, and my own experience bears this out. I probably have at least 80 or 90 plants of both types but the majority are dormant varieties. I have found that the ones I have in a deep, moist, but well drained soil are the strongest performers. We get sufficient cold for all daylilies.
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Sure you want to get rid of those ditch lilies, Mitch?
Oh Trunnels they are wonderful - and they love the heat... I just might have to let them stick around just on the far side away from the others.
I haven't been in my garden much at all this summer cause of shoulder surgery so don't know if I have roots that have spread but will check it well in the spring. I got these from Moby and could not have been happier with the beauty and performance. I know a lot of people see these as a nuisance but I just love them.
Whew, glad to hear someone else has the day lily bug. I see a day lily, buy a day lily. Haven't had much luck with them reblooming, except the Stella's. Another thing, I bought several with descriptions as blooms early, middle, late. Mine all bloomed about the same time. Anyone else experiencing this?
Carolyn
Mitch you better keep those native orange Daylilies they are beautiful too, both the single and the double, just because they are plentiful doesn't make them less valuable. I have some from about 30 years ago that are still around with no help from me, but the hybrids have just about disappeared.
Josephine.
Mitch, don't get rid of the ditch DL. unless you send them here. You know I find in plants what I love in people. Where in plants it is there outward beautiy that makes beautiful feelings on my inside, It is a persons inward beauty that makes me feel the same.
I don't care if they have a name or not. I love them. and when I get one with a name I forget it anyway. So Mitch as you replace your farm daylilies, just send them to me.
I am glad I am not a Hybrid. you mix the 2 parents I came from and I would be meaner than the meanest person who ever lived. I am not joking. None of you would have ever liked me. I am one of those ditch lilies and very proud to be. I may not be of a named variety but I am a one of a kind!! I am however sugar and spice LOL :o)
As a puppy dog tail I would have thunk that wasn't so important to you. "LOL" ;o) just joking. But not about sending them to me....hehehe
Blessings,
Sandy ^8^
:-) All right they have a place here to stay. I hope Josephine you will agree when you are over here that the mix of DLs and Natives works good together (I hope!).
Carolyn (TxGrandviewCN), I'm not a daylily expert, but those designations of "early, middle or late" blooming used to confuse me, Somewhere (can't remember where) I think I read that it means what time of the day they open up?
ahhh that is logical... I thought it was time of year they bloomed to... I just found out there are night bloomers! I had to ask - so are they Night Lilies? lol
LOL, maybe they are late sleepers!
From the AHS:
BLOOM PERIOD, BLOOM SEASON:
That portion of the growing season when a particular cultivar is in bloom. The seasons are categorized in rather loosely defined periods, such as: EE, extra-early - the earliest flowers to bloom; E, early - overlap or follow slightly behind extra-early bloomers; EM, early to mid-season; M, midseason; ML, midseason to the beginning of the later portion of the bloom season; L, almost the end of the bloom season; and VL, very late - the last flowers of the bloom season
So it is indeed the time of season, rather than the time of day.
Nocturnal daylilies refer to daylilies that open in the evening and close by the next morning. I didn't know they existed - probably because I wasn't up to see them!
Thanks everyone. I've learned a lot on this thread.