do you live in zones four through nine have a sunny location in your garden but
it's a little bare and you need something to place there stay tuned
because I have got the perfect plant for you
hey friends it is Jenny welcome to Gardening with Creekside today I'm going
to share with you this fantastic plant that hopefully you are well aware of and
possibly may even have in your own garden I am talking about a daylily we are
standing here in front of our house and we have got this massive gorgeous hedge
of just common yellow day lilies of course remember we are in North Carolina
zone 7b and day lilies absolutely thrive here
day lilies are a great old timey classic perennial means it comes back every year
in zones 4 through 9 that's really really thrive you can go up to a zone 3
you would just have to look at the specific variety again we're a zone 7b
when we moved into our house 16 years ago now we had this area in
front of our house nothing is flat here at Creekside like everything has a slope
to it so when we first moved in this whole lot
was nothing but bare red clay we had a lot of water issues so we needed
something to go here to help retain the water and to keep it from washing my
sweet mama had a bunch of just common yellow day lilies and so we divided hers
out and we planted this row this is a double row so we have a clump one row
and then the second row kind of windowpanes behind it these have been
here for 16 years day lilies obviously are very long living they perform
beautifully they will bloom for about 3 to 4 weeks during the season day lilies
will have your early bloomers mid bloomers and late bloomers this is the
middle of June and they always faithfully will bloom the middle of June
for several weeks and are absolutely stunning now if you want to grow a daylily
these are the conditions that you need to have you need to have at least
six hours of direct sunlight every day if you get less Sun
they may bloom but they'll be very leggy and they'll tend to flop this section
does get intense all day sun once the Sun comes up in the summer it's normally
about 8 o'clock and then it will receive full Sun until 8 o'clock that night when
the Sun sets in the west you also need to have moist but well-drained soil this
area right here we do have irrigation on our lawn when it rains again remember
that's why I told you that we did these it's because we needed to stop water
from rushing down through our yard so this is moist but it's not super wet
the day lilies themselves are not on irrigation the lawn behind it is and so
the sprinklers shoot away from the day lilies but obviously there is still some
moisture there you can fertilize them in the spring if you really are trying to
get your daily loose to start that's a great option honest full disclosure I've
never date I've never fertilized these day lilies
I just haven't when we planted them it was just regular horrible North Carolina
red clay did not amend the soil at all that's the beauty of day lilies
basically if you can get a clump and stick it in the ground they will survive
it is hard to kill a day lily which makes it such a magnificent perennial
for starting beginning gardeners when you plant them on average you want to
plant them 18 inches apart again when we planted these they were very small day
lilies because we had taken divisions of them so on a general rule about 18
inches apart if you're looking to create a big hedge like this if you want to
divide day lilies this would be a great area to divide day lilies and share them
either move them to another part of your yard to spread out the day Lily love or
you can give them way to your friends if you want to divide a day Lily the fall
especially here in the south is really the best time to do it what you're going
to want to do is take your shovel dig up the whole day Lily now these are massive
like it would it would be a chore to divide these because they are huge
dig it up and then you can either take a serrated knife and cut
them or if you're like me and you don't have all that time you can just take
your sharp shovel and just put the shovel in the middle of the daylily and
then just stomp it and cut through the daylily and as long as you have at
least a couple of good nodes a good chunk of the root you can divide it as
small as you want to again that's what we did with my model we had a limited
amount of supply so as long as we had a good little section of it this is what
it turned into be now I want to share with you some of the different day
lilies that are currently blooming here at the nursery I just cut some of these
day lilies from the garden that are in bloom here at the nursery and our house
these came from the cottage garden bed that we did a tour of just the other
week they were not in bloom during that that video but they are in all their
glory right now so we should go through some of these this first one and these
are all from proven winners just so you know all of these day lilies are from
proven winners so if you we're gonna give you all the details about them
again if you want more information you can just go to their website and it
gives you tons of information that's provenwinners.com so the first one we
have is Ruby Spider this is one of my favorites
Ruby Spider is just an absolutely glorious color has that dark burgundy
maroon edge I guess on the outside and then in the center it's just a bright
yellow this is a large flower I mean there you go
she is big so I love it because she is one of the first ones to bloom in the
garden and she is prolific just absolutely covered now a little daylily
info for you the stalk that the blooms are on is called a scape the scape of
course extends above the main plant and will hold all of your flowers now day
lilies are called day lilies because the bloom lasts for one day but one scape
can have a dozen blooms buds on it during its bloom time
now if you will notice on this scape you will see we have some empty little
nodules right here those were blooms that have already
fallen off so we had blooms they fell off now back over here you can see that
there is another bud so this would take maybe maybe in two or three days this
bud will be this bloom so Rudy Spider she
will get about I don't know three feet tall we'll put all the information up on
the screen because honestly Jenny can't remember right now so we will give all
the information for Ruby Spider but I want you to make sure that you can see
the color and know exactly what she looks like
next we have Siloam Peony Display hey guys this is an absolute showstopper and
she's not fully opened right now so she is still opening up just a pale peach
color this is a shorter variety only about maybe 24 inches tall so I have her
in the front of the garden bed where the other ones are towards the back this has
such an exquisite unique daylily bloom most people don't even think that it's a
daylily I've put this on social media with
pictures and people have gone nuts over it so this is another fantastic so day
lilies come in all shapes sizes and colors there's literally thousands of
hybrids of day lilies so just do a little research when you find something
you like go ahead and get it again look at all of those buds on there just tons
of buds that would have come open if we hadn't cut it so next is this is
one of my favorites can you guess why this is one of my favorites look how
gorgeous and the you know the name is Primal Scream it's fantastic but doesn't
looks like great Clemson orange color it is it's fantastic so you know
go Tigers so Primal Scream again is going to be about the same height shape
as the Ruby Spider hot hot orange color absolutely gorgeous it pops like in the
morning it absolutely glows in the garden
gorgeous now on the rubies I'm not Ruby Spider 'scuse me on the Primal Scream
when we were putting it in this is an old bloom so this one could have been
yesterday's bloom or the day before so this is what an old bloom looks like you
can to tidy up your plant go out there and just pop these off
it was just on a little nodule right here and in fact we were going to leave
it on there and I was going to show you how just easy it is to pop off and it
just fell right off so you can go out and deadhead your day lilies but you do
not have to it does not affect your blooms it simply just cleans up the
plant so there's no need to deadhead again just do it if you want to make it
look pretty so Primal Scream is one of my favorites and then just this morning
she's a little bit later and I'm maybe butchering this name but that's okay you
know this is Nosferatu from proven winners purple deep deep purple colors
so this one is opening probably was late yesterday opening up because it looks a
little sad and then you have the bud coming open on that one so again this
just started blooming yesterday so she has not gotten into all her glory yet
but just a great rich purple I mean just so deep color it's a fantastic one so
all of that to say is these are some that are blooming here at our house and
at the nursery but again there are thousands of varieties of day lilies so
just do your research go to your local garden center this is a great time of
year to go because they are in bloom so check it out
see what you like grab some take it home plop them in the ground and have fun
with it remember gardeners should be fun not
stressful I hope you have found this video about day lilies informative and
that you have been encouraged to go out there and find a daylily that you love
again if you have a gardening friend or somebody that has daily lilies in their
yard I bet I can almost guarantee that if you asked if you could have a little
clump of their daily daylily they would be happy to share it with you
so ask your friends who have gorgeous gardens if you can have a little clump
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