If there is a truly carefree perennial flower, it’s the
daylily. Its botanical name is Hemerocallis, which means, “beauty for a day.”
That pretty much sums it up. Most daylily blossoms open at dawn and are spent
by sundown. Each scape can carry a dozen or more buds, so the daylily plant can
keep blooming for several weeks at a time. Once a scape is through blooming the
plant cuts it off, which makes deadheading effortless. I was very proud of the
daylily hedge along the western wall of our last house. I’d meant to divide
them to share with neighbors and to bring some with us when we moved here, but
somehow in the chaos of moving it never happened. I’d like to replace the
forsythia bushes near our mailbox with half a dozen daylily plants. And I
would, if only I could figure out how to evict the forsythias.
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