Can a daylily be grown as a houseplant?

Useful tips and important nuances for growing a daylily

The homeland of the daylily, a very beautiful and graceful flower from the Daylily family, is Europe and East Asia. This perennial plant stands out for the size of its flowers, is famous for its unpretentious care and can decorate any garden and home. The flowering of the bush can last up to 30 days, but this is provided that the plant will receive a lot of sunlight. Daylilies are known for their resistance to pests and diseases.

Of the 25 species of the genus Hemerocallis (genus Daylilies) at home, the greatest preference was given to the red, lemon yellow, small daylily, etc.

Growing and care

The plant makes basic requirements for lighting: with a lack of sunlight, the flowers of the plant become small and it may stop blooming altogether.

Having a powerful root system, the daylily is able to get water from a great depth, so watering of the plant should be limited and it should be watered at the root so that drops of water do not damage the flower petals.

Daylilies love soil rich in nutrients, therefore sandy and heavy clay soils are not suitable as a substrate: in the first case, the plant may lack moisture and nutrients, in the second, a tendency to fungal diseases may arise due to the poor penetrating ability of moisture.

Spring is the best time for fertilizing with mineral fertilizers. If the daylily grows in your garden, then the fertilizer is scattered between the bushes, and then the plant is watered. During the short rest period after flowering and before new growth begins, the daylily is re-fed. This contributes to getting as many flowers from the plant as possible for the next season.

If, during flowering, you regularly pluck off flowers that have withered, you will thereby help the plant save its resources. Before wintering, it is necessary to cut off the entire aerial part of the plant. Winter is a dormant period for the daylily.

In the spring, dry leaves are pruned and the process of dividing overgrown plants or old ones begins.

Transplant and reproduction

The best time to plant a daylily is May or August. If necessary, a transplant can be done in the interval between these months, but it is desirable that the weather be cool. August is the last month when it is recommended to replant the daylily. If this procedure is done later, the daylily may not have time to take root, which in winter cold can lead to the death of the plant.

The transplanting process assumes that the plants should be at a distance of 60-100 cm from each other, since, as it matures, the plant grows strongly.

The bush prepared for transplanting is shaken off the ground and carefully studying the condition of the roots: old, damaged, dry ones are removed, and the cut points are sprinkled with ash, after which the plant is lowered into a 30-centimeter hole, previously covered with a mixture of humus, sand, peat with the addition of potassium -phosphoric fertilizer, superphosphate and ash. The plant is carefully inserted into the hole, watered, and the root collar is mulched by 2 cm with dry humus or peat.

Vegetative breeding method daylily suggests that young bushes no older than 5-6 years are taken as the starting material, which are carefully divided by hand or with a knife. The most important thing is not to damage the roots.Vegetative propagation is carried out in the spring.

2nd breeding method - seed propagation... It is best to use seeds freshly harvested for winter for this, but they will not lose their germination capacity next spring. When planting, the seeds are deepened to 2 cm. Plants grown from seeds bloom for 2-3 years.

Diseases and pests

Waterlogging of the soil can cause a disease in the daylily such as rot of the root collar. If you find a yellow color on young foliage, dig up the plant, remove the soft tissue, wash the cuts with potassium permanganate solution and, after drying, plant the plant in another place.

From damage to the plant by a mosquito of daylilies, deformation of the buds occurs. Damaged buds should be removed.

Care features

Why daylily does not bloom?

There are several reasons:

• perhaps the root collar is too deeply buried when planting. The optimum depth for planting should be 2.5 cm. If this condition is not met, the plant must be freed from excess soil, and if necessary, the bush must be transplanted.
• the plant may have received an excess of fertilizer. Then the foliage begins to develop rapidly, but flowering does not occur. To prevent this from happening, in the spring the plant is fed with complex fertilizers several times, but not earlier than 7-8 days, after the end of the flowering process, they are fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizer.
• with waterlogging, the flowering process does not occur, and the climate may simply not be suitable for the plant.

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Daylilies on the windowsill This year I bought daylilies for the first time before the planting season. I kept as much as I could in the refrigerator, but I still had to plant it in pots. They immediately rushed up to 25 cm. And then they stopped. Tell me, do they need something special, maybe feed them with something ... Or will they last? And when can you plant, right away, when the ground thaws, or wait out the return frosts? Thanks. OlgaZ Moscow 24.03.2005 11:48:36 1 I usually grow all the perennials that I grow on the windowsill since winter, take them to the dacha for the May holidays and put them in the garden in the sun under the blossoming cherries on a wooden flooring, covering them with lutrasil on top in arcs (depending on the thickness of the lutrasil, in 1-2-3 layers ). And I plant it in the ground, depending on how things are going and there is time to deal with the plantings. Daylilies at home usually grow without any problems, it even happened that they bloomed. But with the onset of above-zero temperature on the balcony, I put them on the glazed, but not insulated balcony (I fear the nights by moving them into the apartment or opening the balcony door at night). At home, I rarely feed the plants that are waiting for planting - mainly those that I give to unravel at home. And in my garden, my land is fertile and daylilies there, too, I pamper with excessive attention and care. lubov Moscow 24.03.2005 12:04:01 2 Hello! the same story was with me last year. The material came by mail in March, the daylilies were already with large leaves, I had to plant them in pots. One, larger, bloomed wonderfully in April. In May, everyone is planted in the garden. And in October this blooming one again tried to bloom, but I cut the buds. While we were at the window, I did not feed or stimulate anything. It is not yet known how they will be led this year. Maybe weakened. Kuzina Moscow 24.03.2005 12:38:38 3 And to what size did they grow in the apartment? OlgaZ Moscow 24.03.2005 13:56:18 4 Kuzina, they are handsome tenacious, nothing will happen to them, I somehow bought such dead people for 10 rubles. I felt sorry, I wanted to give them a chance, they made me happy in the second year, I got a stunted variety, blooms all summer, last year I shared it, planted them all along the path. So good luck to YOU. I would not feed at home. Two on my windowsill are already bursting, waiting to be dropped into the ground. At the suggestion of the forumlans, I bought Pandora Boxing. oja Moscow 24.03.2005 13:58:52 5 Hard to say. Leaves, probably up to 25-30 cm. Flower stalks were much lower than in natural conditions. Also, probably about 30 cm. lubov Moscow 24.03.2005 14:05:05 6 In principle, daylilies are quite problem-free plants, even on the windowsill, just be careful about watering - I flooded it alone, I didn't make it to disembarkation (or maybe the division was rotten - it was a long time ago, then even "Maxim" was not there) :) ) In general, be more careful and everything will work out! 🙂 7 Thank you all, they encouraged me. :) I have four on the windowsill, one of them is also Pandora Boxing. OlgaZ Moscow 24.03.2005 15:10:47 8 OlgaZ, bought early, grew up to 50 cm. Sometimes they bloomed. Also in May I take away all this economy I take to the dacha. Before disembarking, they stand on an unheated veranda. I don’t feed anything. Freezes up to -5 tolerate normally (if without buds). Andrei S. Peterburg 24.03.2005 15:18:57 9 In my practice, they are one of the most problem-free, both in overexposure (usually I plant it right away if it grows), and then when planting. The soil is light, peat-based, so that it dries quickly. Lara Moscow 24.03.2005 15:46:58 10 Oja, thanks! I always believed in them, I didn't even think about anything like that. By the way, in the 4th issue Color. club was told that the bourgeois only recently paid attention to the breeding of winter-hardy daylilies. What will this be? They do not seem to freeze out anyway, and they will plant Salekhard. Kuzina Moscow 24.03.2005 18:10:30 11 Every year, to check the grade, I plant it in pots on the windowsill - they bloom, and some smell wonderful. I plant it in the ground after June 10. No problem. Good luck. Salix Mockа 24.03.2005 21:55:20 12 Salix, as a person with considerable experience in the field of daylily varieties, will you be able to clarify such a confusing question: how substantiated are the assertions constantly encountered in the literature that daylilies from the "evergreen" group are unsuitable for our climate? Based on practical experience, there are a lot of doubts on this score, take at least the same "Pandoras Boxing!" 13 Unfortunately, I do not have evergreen daylilies that grow poorly. Somehow I tried to find out which varieties that are currently being sold bloom poorly, but so far there has been no response. There will be a reason to open a new topic. Salix Mockа 25.03.2005 23:39:21 14 Hey! I just discovered this forum. Tell me, I also bought daylilies, they already have large sprouts and very long roots (most likely old), they do not fit in a pot. Can they be trimmed? Martha Moscow 06.04.2005 01:24:37 15 Martha, welcome! 🙂 Dried ones definitely need to be cut off, there is even nothing to doubt. And all the rest can be shortened. Daylilies are exceptionally tenacious. Good luck! elimus Moscow 06.04.2005 03:04:26 16 Martha, you can take not a pot, but a liter bag of juice and milk. This is where everything usually fits. But, if the roots are rotten or dry, dead, then boldly cut them off. Andrei S. Peterburg 06.04.2005 03:58:34 17 elimus, Andrei thanks for the advice, I cut the roots of one daylily and planted it in a pot, the other stuffed it into a two-liter juice bag (you can say set a scientific experiment. Make holes in the bag? Martha Moscow 06.04.2005 22:56:17 18 Do it, and you can not only in the bottom, but also from the sides. Andrei S. Peterburg 07.04.2005 18:30:36 19 Daylilies in 1.5 liter water bottles feel very good. They are long and moderately wide. All the roots fit in them and the land is not required as much as on a wide pot. And they are convenient in transportation - narrow, you can put a lot of them in bags or boxes. At the bottom, it is imperative to make holes for water drainage. Lara Moscow 07.04.2005 18:37:08 20 Lara, water bottles are convenient, but they are transparent. I read that seedlings need to be planted in opaque containers so that the roots are in the dark, otherwise the light somehow harms them. Martha Moscow 08.04.2005 01:44:53 21 Martha, they (the roots) don't give a damn about the light. In any case, daylilies. Andrei S. Peterburg 08.04.2005 14:02:40 22 Daylilies and hosts were not bad in transparent bottles. 23 But in transparent containers, the result of watering is visible - there is less chance of filling the roots. Lena Moscow 08.04.2005 15:17:37 24 And I have buds! For some reason I'm glad! Nora Moscow 09.04.2005 08:09:45 25 In transparent bottles, overheating of the roots in the sun is possible, so it is better to wrap them in a white piece of paper :) Felina Moscow 12.04.2005 20:51:32 26 About overheating - I agree. Lena Moscow 13.04.2005 13:26:37 27 I also have buds, I don’t want to pick them off yet, I’d better make sure that I’m not overgraded. And after the first flower and cut off. SANNA Tula region 20.04.2005 01:12:21
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Among flower growers, daylilies are rightfully considered one of the most unpretentious and grateful perennials. If the garden is decorated with daylilies, planting and caring for them in the open field will clearly not be a burden to the owner of the site.

Plants that love the sun feel good in partial shade, the main thing is that the plants are actively illuminated for at least 6 hours. Daylilies do not impose special requirements on the composition of the soil and can grow and bloom for many years in one place, forming dense lush clumps.

Still, how do you create the best growing conditions for these spectacular flowers? When to plant daylilies outdoors, in spring or fall? How to care for plants at different times of the year?

Place for planting daylilies in the ground in spring

When choosing a site for a daylily, you need to take into account that plants love the sun, are not afraid of the wind and thrive where other decorative perennials will feel oppressed. At the same time, daylilies need freedom for free growth. They do not like when there are large plants, shrubs and trees nearby, which become a kind of competitors for flowers for a place in the sun.

Experienced flower growers advise planting light varieties of daylilies in more illuminated places, and for purple, red, multi-colored varieties, for which color saturation is important, look for areas with slight shading.

To simplify the care of daylilies after planting them in open ground, places are chosen for plants that are not flooded in spring. In summer, the powerful rhizomes of plants should not suffer from the close occurrence of groundwater.

The best time to plant daylilies on the site

Daylilies are a kind of centenarians. The most beautiful flowers, forming curtains decorated with multi-colored corollas, they can grow up to one and a half decades without transplanting.This should be taken into account when choosing a place for plants in the garden, and also know that the maximum flowering will be only 5-7 years. Then peduncles among dense foliage appear less often, and the flowers on them are much smaller than before. Therefore, every few years the plants are transplanted, dividing adult perennials.

An unpretentious culture easily tolerates this procedure from early spring to autumn. But planting daylilies in the ground in the spring always goes without complications, the cuttings quickly take root and grow, blooming in the same season.

Spring weather is changeable, and if there is a danger of frost, it is better to postpone the planting. The planting material acquired or obtained after dividing its own plants can be stored for about a month by digging the root system of the plant into sand, peat-sandy substrate, or shifting it with a damp cloth. At the same time, the leaf plates of daylilies are cut in half or a third to reduce the plant's need for moisture.

If the summer is not hot, and for daylilies, when planting in the ground, like in spring, you can really create comfortable conditions, nothing prevents you from decorating the garden until autumn. But with an autumn planting, there is a risk that the plants will not have time to root well, and the next year, if they survive, they will be very weakened.

How to plant daylilies in spring

Before transferring the seedlings to the garden, they need to be prepared for planting:

1. Daylily strips are examined, damaged, dry or rotten roots are removed.
2. The sections are treated with charcoal or activated charcoal crushed to a powder consistency.
3. If this has not been done before, the foliage is cut 10-15 cm above the base of the leaf plates.

Often, the planting material bought in the store has dried up by the time the daylily is planted in the open ground, and the care of such a plant begins with a 4-hour soaking of the root system in a growth stimulator.

The place has been chosen, the planting material is waiting for it to be transferred to the ground. It remains only to prepare a suitable soil for daylilies and start planting. Ornamental perennials prefer a loose, light substrate with a neutral or slightly acidic reaction.

Before planting daylilies in the spring, the soil at their future place of residence must be dug up onto a full bayonet of a shovel. Next, make a planting hole sufficient to accommodate the rhizomes. For more convenience:

• a cone from a loosened substrate is poured at the bottom;
• a plant is placed on top of the ground;
• rhizomes are carefully laid out on the soil;
• sprinkle the underground part of the daylily with soil so that the root collar does not sink more than a couple of centimeters.

After planting is complete, the soil around is tamped a little, and the daylily is watered.

To reduce the evaporation of moisture, the soil under the plants can be mulched using any available means, for example, rotted bark or needles, straw or specialized material.

Daylily care after planting in open ground

Regular plant maintenance after planting consists of watering, loosening the soil and removing weeds.

In the warm season, actively growing and flowering perennials require a lot of water. If daylilies are thirsty, this can be seen by faded foliage, refusal to form, or dropping buds. Perennials respond well to additional humidification in summer. Therefore, daylilies can be planted near water bodies or use very shallow sprinkling;

• In hot weather, daylilies are watered abundantly, so that the soil under them is 20-30 cm wet, that is, to the depth of the root system.
• If the summer is not hot, you can reduce the frequency of watering, but you need to monitor the standing of the foliage.

The best time to water daylilies is early morning or evening, when there is no risk of sunburn on the flowers.

With proper planting and care, the flowers of daylilies, as in the photo, appear in the same summer. In the first year, the plants are not additionally fed.The introduction of complex fertilizers for flowering ornamental crops begins next spring. When choosing a product, it is better to give preference to formulations with a moderate nitrogen content, causing foliage to proliferate to the detriment of flowering. During the summer, perennials are fed twice, and closer to autumn, the plants receive potassium-phosphorus fertilizers for better preparation for winter.

Plants are hardy, but can suffer when there is too little snow on the site. Therefore, in snowless winters, it is better to cover daylilies with spruce branches, needles, straw and other materials at hand. As soon as the massive melting of the snow begins, the daylilies are released, otherwise pret develops on the root collars of the plants.

It can be seen about the cultivation of daylilies in the country

Daylily (

Hemerocallis

) Is a perennial herb with bright, cheerful inflorescences of all shades of the rainbow. Its name comes from two Greek words:

"Hemera"

- day and

"Kallos"

- beauty, which is explained by the short flowering period of each flower, usually no more than one day. The daylily is called "the flower of joy" and it is believed that touching it brings good luck, takes away all sorrows and sorrows.

This perennial firmly endures the whims of the Russian winter - temperature extremes, winds, frosts. He is moisture-loving, unpretentious and loves the sun very much.

The flowering dates of daylilies differ depending on the species - from April to June. From the halo of its lush leaves, juicy peduncles stretch upward, usually strewn with funnel-shaped flowers. Despite the fact that each flower lives only one day, this feature is almost invisible to the eye. After all, the number of buds on one peduncle can reach 50 pieces, and more and more new ones bloom every day.

It blooms for about a month, abundantly growing and spreading around itself a subtle amber scent with light notes of sandalwood. Some varieties bloom twice a season. To achieve the decorative effect of the garden from early summer to late autumn, plant different types of this flower side by side.

What are the daylilies?

In nature, there are more than 30 thousand varieties of daylily with different shapes of petals and the structure of inflorescences. For garden cultivation, terry varieties with lush buds have been bred.

Very decorative and two-row basal leaves of the daylily, collected in a luxurious arcuate or straight fan. There are variegated species in which the foliage is decorated with white or yellow longitudinal stripes.

On our site there are interesting articles where you can get acquainted with various species of this perennial and their hybrids, see how different these plants are and how you can use them in decorating your site:

• Many-sided daylilies: choice, cultivation features, placement in the country
• Summer miracle - hybrid daylily
• Daylily brown-yellow - decorative, medicinal and edible
• Exhibition of the daylily of the hybrid Nikitsky Botanical Garden

Daylily propagation

Daylilies reproduce by seeds and vegetatively. It should be noted that when grown from seeds, only natural species retain all their characteristics, therefore this method is used in breeding work. Vegetative reproduction brings consistently good results.

Dividing the bush

It is better to divide an adult bush in the spring. The daylily wakes up early - after emerging from under the snow, green leaves are immediately visible. As soon as they start to grow, it's time to divide the plant. If the bush is disturbed later, then the flowers in this season may not be seen.

If your bush is 4-5 years old, it is easier to dig it up entirely and divide it into parts so that each section has a piece of root tissue, buds (at least 2-3 pieces) and a part of a green fan. Some species have a loose bush structure, they can be separated by hand. But there are also those in which you cannot do without a knife or a sharp shovel.

With good care, the bush can successfully grow in one place for 10-15 years, and when dividing such an "old man", gardeners have difficulties. The fact is that in old overgrown plants, cuttings taken from the periphery of the bush take root well, since only they have many young roots. If the whole bush is dug up and divided, then the parts taken from the center require special preparation: the rotten parts of the roots are removed, the cuts are updated on the broken ones, long roots are shortened to stimulate the formation of new ones. Such delenki are grown in seedling beds for 1-2 years, and only after that they can be planted in a permanent place.

For the reproduction of the daylily, you can do the following: in early spring or at the end of August, a part of the bush is cut off with a sharply sharpened shovel with a sharp movement from top to bottom. Then the separated part is cut from below, removed and transplanted to the prepared place. The resulting hole is covered with earth and tamped. Important: after this, the mother plant is not watered for a while so that the cut site does not rot.

Some gardeners do it even easier: they carefully separate small parts from the periphery of the bush with a shovel or sharp shovel, transplant them to another place or give them to grateful neighbors.

Seed propagation

When propagated by seeds, the daylily loses the characteristics of the variety, therefore this method is used by breeders, and it is easier for us to buy ready-made seedlings. If you still want to experiment and grow this plant yourself from seeds, check out some of the tricks and nuances of this process.

The seeds must be soaked first. Add hydrogen peroxide to the soaking water - 15 ml of 3% peroxide solution per 1 liter. Fill the container with seeds with this solution, cover with polyethylene and put in a dark place. Germination takes place at different times, from four days to two weeks. It is necessary to look in every day and check if the seeds have hatched.

After the tips of the white roots appear, drain the liquid. On the bottom of another cup, pour a thin layer of fine gravel (the size of the pebbles should be comparable to the size of the seed). Place the seeds on top of it so that the roots are in the water, but the seed itself is not drowned. Epin can be added to the water for further germination (1 drop per glass of water).

Now place the containers with seeds in the light and make sure that the water level remains the same. Alternatively, just spray some water from a spray bottle into the cup as needed.

After a while, leaves will appear, and then you can transplant small plants into seedling boxes with well-permeable garden soil. Plant seedlings in a permanent place that have grown to at least 15-20 cm, and only after the threat of return frosts has disappeared.

If you have the opportunity to organize additional lighting, then you can start growing daylilies already in October. If this is not possible, then soak the seeds no earlier than March, when the length of the day increases.

The disadvantages of this method are that later on in your flower beds you can see a completely different variety that was depicted on the package with seeds. But nothing)) - any kind of "flower of luck" is charming and positive.

Proliferation - rooting of inflorescences

Purely botanical nameproliferation means the rooting of a leaf rosette formed on a peduncle in order to grow a new plant with all the characteristics of the variety.

To reproduce the daylily in a similar way, the rosettes (proliferations) must be given the maximum time to develop on the mother plant. To do this, do not remove the peduncle until the upper part, reaching the outlet, dries out. When this time has come, cut off part of the peduncle above and below the proliferation and shorten the foliage by a third.Place the outlet in the water for root development in such a way that only the lower brownish tissue is moistened, from which the roots will grow. You can add 1-2 drops of a growth stimulant such as Epin or Zircon.

After the roots grow up to 4-5 centimeters, plant the plants in pre-prepared pots with a light substrate for flowers. Maintain your seedlings throughout the winter by regularly moisturizing the soil. Plant daylilies well-rooted during the winter in open ground in late April - early May.

Features of planting daylily

Well-fertilized garden soil is suitable for planting a daylily. If you have poor or heavy land on your site, then the planting hole will need to be prepared more responsibly, since we are planting a bush for many years. Just be careful with nitrogen fertilizers - an excess of them slows down flowering.

This perennial has fleshy enlarged roots, they do not tolerate stagnant groundwater and heavy soil. If your site has clay soils or loams, dilute them with compost, rotted manure and sand. Avoid stagnant groundwater in the root zone will allow good drainage or planting plants in raised flower beds.

To make the daylily bloom in all its glory, choose a sunny spot for it in your garden. Keep in mind that the "flower of luck" loves space and will eventually grow up to 70 centimeters in diameter (depending on the variety). With this in mind, and make planting holes.

When planting, in each hole, pour a peat-humus mixture mixed with potassium and phosphorus into each hole (30 grams of potassium and phosphorus for 1 bucket of soil). Then place the roots of the daylily along the hill so that the root collar is no more than 2-3 cm deep. Fill the hole, tamping the ground a little with your hands, and water the plant. After watering, mulch the ground with wood chips, sawdust, pine needles, peat or other mulching material. In the first year after planting, you do not need to fertilize the plant.

Daylily care

The daylily does not like watering from above. Always moisten it with a hose laid directly on the ground so that leaves and buds remain dry when watering. In the spring (before flowering), feed it moderately with nitrogen. When the plant enters the budding phase, pour it with a solution of phosphorus-potassium fertilizer (30 grams per 10 liters of water). And when the flowering period is over (late August - early September), feed again with phosphorus and potassium in the same proportion. This stimulates the formation of flower buds for flowering next year.

For the winter, it is advisable to cover the plant with dry straw or spruce branches, after cutting off the leaves and dry peduncles. Although daylilies are frost-resistant, it is better not to risk it. For the rest, caring for it is the most common: watering as needed, weeding, removing dried leaves and peduncles.

In this video, you will see the transplantation and division of the daylily bush. The author shares his experience and talks about the mistakes that many growers make when growing this plant.

All types of daylily are quite unpretentious, frost-hardy and unusually charming. By spreading an aura of harmony and peace around them, they foster a positive attitude and really bring good luck if you can believe it.

And in your garden there was a place for a "flower of luck"? What varieties and hybrids did you like the most?