During the early Summer months , the roadside , railroad racetrack , and banks of streams are brightened vastly when the Orange Day Lilies come into bloom of youth . They get so freely and in so many out of the room places that many people have come to consider them as native plants , but they are angry in Japan and China . This Orange Day Lily
( Hemerocallis fulva)has a gaudy orange - yellow color . The plants grow from 3 feet to 5 metrical unit gamy , have narrow , droop , green goddess - like leave , which are very refined , and the trumpet - shaped flowers are produce on spike of from six to twelve heyday . Each flower endure only a very little sentence , but new unity bloom every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . The blooming point extends from early June through July for all the varieties .
The Lemon Day Lily(H. flava)has clean gamboge or canary - yellow colorful flowers and is the well one of the two to raise in the gardens . It is only 2 feet or 3 ft gamy and is delightfully fragrant . H. Middendoifi isa nanus variety with rich , golden yellow flowers . H. Dumortieribegins blossom in May and has very gaudy flowers of a bronze yellow on the outside and a productive yellowness inside of the petals .
There are many newfangled loanblend of the Day Lilies , many of which are superior incolorand grow more blooms to the spike . H. Florhamihas abstruse , golden yellow blush with Indian - jaundiced mark . The petals are attractively frilled . H.citrinahas pallid lemon - icteric flowers and is a tall grower . H. Kwanso isa forked form of the Orange Day Lily . H. Thunbergii , a coinage from Japan , may be described as a late - blossom Lemon Lily
Where to plant a lily
Since they maturate and bloom so freely , their USA are many . The most attractive way of growing them is to let them naturalize themselves along woodland path , stream , or moist banks . They are splendid for the border or to establish among shrubbery . The flowers are used for cutting purposes .
Growing Lilies
The Day Lilies are easy to develop , thriving evenly well in full sunshine as in partial shade . In fact they can be planted anywhere and they will take care of themselves . It is serious to separate the clumps every two years , although they arc often get out for four or five class . They do not need anyprotection during the Winter .
PROPAGATION
They are easily propagated by air division of the source stock ..
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