What I do with my daylilies after they have bloomed
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2022
- The Garden Mouse trims back her daylilies leaves and removed debris after bloom season.
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The Garden Mouse enjoys flower gardening...especially daylilies and hydrangeas. She is located in the U.S.A. in Zone 6b.
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I' m a fanatic dead-header on everything, so cutting back the daylily plants is also a MUST-DO! As soon as they're done flowering, in I go. It's a time-killer, but oh! They look so much better! I also split them after they're cut back. Voila!
Yes, a great time to divide, too!
I was glad to see this. I was considering digging up all my daylilies bc they look a mess about now. I do love them in the spring. I am going to cut them to the ground this evening and see how it goes.
If you cut the spent flower stems back all the way right after blooming you can get another wave of flowers in the late summer/autumn.
Unfortunately, usually it gets too cold too quickly herefor that. Some years I eek out a few blossoms for a second flush. I'm jealous of those that can!!
Thanks for the tip
Oldgardener0612 5:00 I treat daylillies as beautiful weeds and I am brutal. I thin them by hand by ripping the dead leaves at the base of the off and usually get some green ones also. Any brown shriveled leaves get ripped out too (with some green leaves too.) This basically is thinning the plant. I feel the green leaves would come out in a few days if they can be tugged out. I don’t trim them back but stand back and pick the last strands of shriveled leaves out of the plant. I water and sometimes add more much. I do this to the big healthy ones so I don’t have to divide them so often. I love watching other people garden!
Daylilies are really tough...I love that about them!
Wow it look so neat after you cute them down a little bit. I would do this too, thanks
Wow love it. I’m going to do this too. 👍
Hi this was very helpful and entertaining as well! Thank you!! :)
Thank you!
I’ve always just took the weed eater to mine after they quit blooming, they come back beautifully every single year without fail
Great idea!
I think they come back better next flowering season if you cut them back. I love mine, have some lovely colours .. some with frilled gold edges .. doubles .. large bread and butter plate sizes, and small ones only 6 cm diameter .. just lovely. I live in Queensland Australia and we have ‘Day Lily Farms’ where you can order from a picture catalog on line.
Your garden sounds lovely! I love that there are so many kinds of daylilies! 🙂
I do the same looks alot neater!
I cringe when I hear y’all talk about weed eating them or mowing them. But I guess it works well for you, though. I like to baby mine more so I tend to do about what the Garden Mouse does! So fun to get up early in May and walk around my garden in the wet grass to see what day lily beauty has bloomed out. They are all the more precious because they only last a day! Take pictures to be able to enjoy them all year!
yep...I love that early trip out to see what is blooming that day. It is so much fun!!
I have always heard the bulbs below ground get nourished by the green above the ground. So while I do pull out the dead underneath I do not cut any green above the soil.
I love your video. It is very real and simple. The results are very tidy. I am always frustrated with what to do with the mess they make. I also have a horrific new problem of deer eating the buds right before they open.. frustrating.
Oh no! I have heard that deer can be such a problem! We have an 8ft. fence around our back yard that keeps them out. The bunnies still manage to get in, but at least they don't seem to like daylilies!
I eat day lily blossoms with strawberries or kiwi fennel fawn using lime juice and honey to dress. Beautiful
Wow! Sounds great!
I pull dead strands from the beginning, long before the blooms are spent to keep them neat. I like to let the flower stalks die off to a brown, then I pull them all together and make fall decorations. The dead stalks are so strong you can mold them into wreaths or make believe corn stalks. Just add some decorations to them. I cut the leaves back before fall so they look neat also. Much easier to think about the dividing of them in spring. Great video!
I never thought of using the dead stalks that way! Thank you for sharing!
We sheer them as close to the ground as possible. Within 2-3 days they grow several inches again.
I might try that!
I do the same thing you do but I cut them down to 6-8" instead of 12" because my leaves are a lot longer than yours are. Yours are so beautiful.
Thank you!
Not as good as you do but now I know what to do,thank you
Best of luck!
I cut the stem with the dead flower off. The in fall I will trim them to a foot before winter
Thank you for this! I'm a new gardener and never know what to do with any of the flowers that grow in my yard (the house came with a beautiful little garden).. I want to ensure that I'm taking care of everything just right. I currently have a slug infestation that is decimating my flowers :(
Best of luck with the new garden! What fun!
Ugh, slugs are a problem for me, too. I use Sluggo plus that I get on Amazon. You have to sprinkle more after each rain, but it helps with the damage.
I cut mine all the way back after the initial blooms and they reflush back with blooms! This spring early summer I have the most abundant blooms ever since I tried that method last year!
That is great!
Curious: which part of the country do you live?
@@CH-bq2uz Nebraska
I actually mow mine down to the ground. It works for me.
I love how hardy they are!
I now live in Northern Michigan so I wait until after the 1st frost to cut back leaves.....😊
You'll probably have a frost pretty soon!
I cut mine down. Because they stop blooming
Hi, I’ve never grown them but am tempted. so when they do turn brown, you just cut them down to the ground and they come up the following year? Thanks!
Yes, that's exactly right!
@@TheGardenMouse Thank you!
I don’t do anything much with mine maybe cut them to the ground in late autumn early winter. They come back every year no problem. They can be hard enough to divide if you want to split them.
Yes, dividing them can be a challenge if they are in a rooty area especially!
I’m understanding that you cut them fairly short before winter but do you cover them?
By the end of fall, all their foliage is dead, and I rake it out. It just looks like bare ground. I do not cover that area at all. Hope that helps! 🙂
Hi .. I have put up with these lillies for over 20 yrs .. the orange variety ,and hate them as they are so much work for me as a senior in the fall .. and I have done what you do every year , taking a bread knife and cut them down before winter. My neighbour leaves all hers and says it's easier after winter, and rakes them up but I don't know how messy this would get . not sure what to do. thanks for your video
It is a lot easier to to just rake them up in the next spring, but I don't like how messy they look until then!
thanks !@@TheGardenMouse
Mess is fine. Protects the roots over the winter and gives native bees a place to winter over. Being ‘too clean’ is not beneficial for Nature.
I leave mine alone.
I bought small containers of these at the beginning of summer. The bloomed minimally. If they are still in the containers in a plant box under my window, should I cut them down more or less? The grass is currently about 5-6”.
If the leaves look kind of ratty, you can cut them down. Otherwise, they will just turn brown in the fall and you can rake them off .
Plant them in the ground. They are likely pot bound, meaning they have filled pot with roots and have no more room to grow. Also not enough soil to feed the mass of roots and not enough soil to hold water to provide water for all those roots.
They just bloom once a year ?
Yes, at least in zone 6b. There are re-blooming varieties, but usually in the colder zones we don't have a long enough growing season for the second bloom. In warmer climates, you could choose a re-blooming variety and a second, smaller flush of flowers. 🙂
Day Lillie’s are very invasive weed! In some States Day Lillies are not legally sold. I’ve tried every poison to rid my yard of these terrible weeds
That's the common daylily or what's also called "ditch lilies" in the mid Atlantic. These cultivators aren't invasive.
Lol
@@vagirl129They are all still introduced from Asain and will not benefit the pollinators in your area unless you live in its native range. Instead of day lilies you can plant native lilies that are better suited to your area and its fauna.
Don’t tell my pollinators that daylilies don’t benefit them! Bumblebees and night moths love mine!
Grass is also a non native invasive weed. I'd much rather have day lilies. They are tough, and few ' weeds' can compete with them. I do get the odd dog strangling vine popping up here and there but that's about it. Grass is a totally different story, as most people already know. In the fall I do nothing, the leaves turn brown, rot into the ground and turn into fertilizer for the next year.