Ditch lilies
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- Subject: Ditch lilies
- From: B* D*
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 18:06:08 -0500
The sad part is that there are so many people who seem to think the orange
ditch lily is the ONLY daylily! And so many others who think that all
daylilies were created equal.
In our neighborhood, several nearby yards are adorned with a wide border
of orange daylilies which the homeowners laboriously planted several years
ago. I presume they PURCHASED them somewhere, because the starts were all
the same size when they went in. These people had the space to grow
hundreds of interesting hemerocallis, or they could have put in a
well-rounded perennial border with all sorts of plants, and instead they
opted for a whole bunch of H. fulva! What a shame! And when they bloom, it
is a LOT of orange! Booooorrrrrring!
Well, they are good for one thing--you can use the flower buds in soup,
and they are delicious.
Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, bob wrote:
>> J.E. Shields wrote:
>> In favorable areas it is very vigorous, much more so than the usual,
>> well-behaved hybrid daylilies. It chokes them out.
> I am always amazed at how fast this plant has spread in the last 30 or
> 40 years. When I was a kid you could see it here and there out in the
> country but now you can usually find a patch in about every mile of
> ditch along the road. Not bad for a plant that doesn't set many if any
> seed. This is here in Iowa anyway.
