Daylilies: Popular Types, And Features

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Daylilies - for gardens, parks and summer cottages

Daylily cream

Among all the variety of perennial plants used in landscape design, the most unpretentious is the daylily, which forms powerful bushes or whole thickets with juicy green leaves reaching a height of 30 cm to 1 meter.

The first mention of the daylily in Europe can be found in the writings of Pliny, and in the gardens of ancient China this plant was grown during the reign of the Zhou dynasty (1255–1122 BC). In China and Japan, this plant is still grown not only for decorative purposes, but also for food. Dried daylily buds are used as an aromatic seasoning for meat dishes. This species is called edible daylily.

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Daylily dark burgundy with a yellow center

Daylily is very good for planting in gardens and parks, in summer cottages. It looks equally beautiful both near ponds and in curtains on lawns.

This plant winters well in the North-West, practically not requiring shelter. It blooms annually and for a long time, multiplies easily, rarely gets sick and is damaged by pests.

For all these properties, the famous German flower breeder Karl Foster called the daylily “the flower of an intelligent lazy person”.

Daylily orange

Due to its peculiarity to bloom for only one day, in Russia it was called "krasodnev". The same essence is reflected in the Latin name - "hemerocallis", which means "beautiful day".

The British call this plant a Day Lily, and the Germans call it a Taglilie. But since there are more than a dozen flowers in the inflorescences, the flowering duration is several weeks.

Today, thanks to the work of breeders, we can find the most varied color of flowers - from pure white to almost black; from traditional yellow to red and lilac with ruffled edges of the petals.

Currently, the most common are six types of this plant:

Daylily red with a yellow center

Daylily brown-yellow

Plant with simple or double flowers up to 10–12 cm in diameter, yellowish-golden on the outside, orange on the inside. The homeland of this species is China and Japan. The usual flowering time is June - July.

The most common varieties are: Apricot - bright orange flowers, Georg Weld - orange flowers, Dr. Regel - dark yellow, Lady Gesketh - lemon yellow, Flore Pleno - yellow-orange flowers.

Daylily orange with wavy petals

Daylily Middendorf

Wild species of this plant are found in the Far East, Sakhalin, China, Korea and Japan. It blooms twice a season: in May and August. The plant is 50 - 70 cm high. Leaves are collected in a root rosette. Flowers up to 10 cm in diameter, bright yellow.

Daylily Dumortier

Plant up to 50 cm high. The flowers are star-shaped, with a delicate aroma. Blooms in May - June.

Daylily Abstract Art

Daylily small

Homeland - Eastern Siberia. Blooms in May - June. Reaches a height of 50 cm. It has linear, narrow leaves, up to 0.5 cm wide. Flowers are small, 4–5 cm in diameter, fragrant.

Daylily yellow The

homeland of this species is the Far East and Siberia. The height of this plant is up to 90 cm. The leaves are bright green, broad-linear, collected in a basal rosette. Flowers 8-10 cm in diameter are lemon-yellow, with a pleasant aroma. The inflorescence usually contains 5-10 flowers.

Daylily Franz Heinz

Daylily hybrid

The widest group of varieties obtained from crossing the above species. Currently, there are about ten thousand varieties in the world, differing from each other in terms of flowering, color of flowers, presence of aroma, size of peduncle and terry.

The most common varieties are Golden Orchids - orange flowers, Pink Damascus - red-pink, Stafford - red, Scarlet Orbit - red with a yellow throat, Carl Rossi - a dark red flower with a cherry tint and a greenish-yellow throat, in inflorescence up to ten flowers, flowering duration - a month, winter-hardy.

All of these varieties are distinguished by abundant and long flowering, but some are not without disadvantages. So the Pink Damascus variety is susceptible to such a disease as heterosporia, and Scarlet Orbit is more often than others damaged by pests.

Daylily Varzite

Daylily is photophilous, but easily tolerates partial shade. Prefers slightly moist soils, well fertilized, as it usually grows in one place from five to eight years. The daylily is usually propagated by dividing the rhizomes - in spring (late April - early May) or in August - September. During the summer, this culture can be propagated by cuttings. For this purpose, bunches of linear leaves are usually used, which are formed from under the green stems.

This plant rarely gets sick. Of the diseases, heterosporiasis can be noted. With this disease, daylily leaves turn yellow and elongated dark brown spots form on them. The disease manifests itself especially in a warm, humid summer with a thickened planting. Prevention of the disease consists in pruning and harvesting leaves before wintering and in processing plants with copper-containing preparations - "Oxyhom", copper oxychloride, copper sulfate.

Below is a table of the most common varieties growing in the North-West, indicating the characteristics of the variety and the approximate time of its flowering.

SORT	COLORING THE FLOWER	Plant height	Blooming daylilies last year
Day-lily:	Burgundy with yellow center	45-50 cm	14.07-15.08
	Orange	30 cm	May 31 - June 12
	Cream	60-80 cm	07.25-19.08
	Red with yellow center	30-45 cm	13.07-12.08
	Orange wavy petals	80 cm – 1 m	07.20-11.08
Abstract Art *	Three apricot and three light brick petals	60-80 cm	09.07-11.08
Franz Heinz *	Three burgundy and three yellow petals	60-80 cm	13.07-14.08
Varzite *	Creamy with burgundy ring	60-80 cm	14.07-13.08

* - varieties related to hybrid daylilies, resistant to heterosporiosis