Daylilies

[Kathy Spyker]

I have a few Daylily pictures I would like to share. If anyone else has any I would love to see them.

This is the Lemon Daylily

I'm sorry, I wish I knew all the names but I don't.

[Aimee Santa Monica]

Wow, these are day lillies? They are beautiful!!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Daylilies are among my favorites because they require almost no care and are so beautiful and varied. And they are not toxic. Could one ask for more, well yes, I wish the flowers lasted longer since they fade in one day inside and out.

[J and Riley (and Luna)]

On the "toxic plants" page it lists their bulbs as toxic - does anyone know about roots? 

 

Luna has an obsession with eating day lily roots.  I'm dreading having to remove them - I removed some last year and they just popped right back up again! The day lilies we have in our garden are a local wild variety (orange), not very exciting so I didn't want them everywhere.

[F, Calla & Luca]

The daylilies, Hemerocallis, have tuberous roots not bulbs and they are not listed as toxic as far as I know. Lilies, Lilium are toxic.

[J and Riley (and Luna)]

Ah, makes sense.

 

I do have to dig up the lily of the valley though!  Those for sure are toxic.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I think some of the confusion arises from the fact that what I call tiger lilies are the orange daylilies you describe. But some of the toxic plant lists talk about tiger lilies which are spotted orange lilies of the real lilium family.

[J and Riley (and Luna)]

Yeah they aren't those ones :)  They're the daylilies with the leaves coming from a central point around the base of the plant.

 

The local wild daylilies look like this:

[F, Calla & Luca]

Yes, I have a bed on the far side of my house like this : ) Makes life easy and they are mixed with ferns. It's all very low maintenance.

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

Go back a few pages to #2 and you will see some of F's day lilies and some of my So. Cal day lilies.

[Shelby and Kev]

Wow, are these in your yard because they are absolutely beautiful!

[J and Riley (and Luna)]

Now that I know they're not toxic - I may plant some more this Spring!  Our poor little garden is rather sparse.

 

Orange daylilies grow wild around here and we already have some of those... I was thinking red or red/orange bicolor, but we'll have to see what's available.  Not everything is hardy here with the 5-6 month winter!