Seduced with Nature's Beauty Daylilies by Thomas Fryd
My experience with Daylilies began for me in my West Virginia garden. Although there had been gardening of the most delightful nature during the ten years we lived in Chile South America there had been no daylilies. When we returned to West Virginia the only daylilies I found at that time were the common roadside one the sweet old lemon lily treasured for very early flowers. Each year they were among the first to bloom will mingle sweet scented light yellow flowers among nodding bells of snowflakes spikes of white fraxinella blue starred spikes of camassia.
Then a friend who lived in their backyard landscape garden selected for me a number to give successive bloom. That was a revelation for previously Id thought the daylily bloomed only in late June for only a short time.
One of those selected was a good old time variety cherished because it in flower long before any of the so called "early" ones of more recent introduction. This was the first to open of the list selected. It added so much interest among self sown drifts of white sweet rocket.
An additional extra early sort was had which grew in grassy clumps sent up bright golden orange to orange flowers along a borders edge.
Some years after I planted in my small backyard the first assortment I discovered two more early flowering varieties hybrids. They were not so tall in the garden plant care. com 1523 backyard landscaping. html as many others. They flowered abundantly beside rich purple Iris virginica. Each flower of one variety added a dash of spice with novel black buds stems among brown red flowers making them a great landscape design.
When established 'Troy Hills,' a newcomer rivaled many of the older ones for early flowering. This novelty was one of the most strikingly vividly colored of the newer ones tried. The basic color is deep orange. Then there is contrasting midzone of brown to deep maroon. Even on a small new plant the blooms have been plentiful.
Daylilies changed my world of outdoor gardening the landscape with their beautiful bouquet of flowers allowing me to enjoy them from spring to fall.
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