Plant Write Up

I want to grow the Daylily flower.

• Daylilies are rugged, adaptable, vigorous perennials that endure in a garden for many years with little or no care. Daylilies adapt to a wide range of soil and light conditions. They establish quickly, grow vigorously, and survive winters with little or no injury.
• Daylilies can be planted almost any time the soil can be worked. Works in well-rooted manure or compost to increase organic matter. Fertilizer needs to be applied depending on a soil test. We have to dig a hole large enough for the roots without bending or crowding them.
• The best time to transplant or divide plants is early spring. Plants divided in the spring may not bloom the same summer. Divisions should have two to three stems or fans of leaves with all roots attached. Divisions are made by digging the entire plant and gently pulling the fans apart, cutting the foliage back, and leaving only five or six inches. Once the plant is placed in the soil, its important to make sure that the crown (the portion where the stem and root meets) is one inch below the ground line. It need to be watered after planting. A winter mulch of straw or shredded leaves helps ensure against winter injury for unestablished plants.
• Daylilies should be spaced no less than 18 to 24 inches apart on each side.
• Daylilies can do well over a relatively wide soil pH range and adjustment of pH need only be considered if the plants appear to be doing poorly. A soil test as recommended and should always be conducted before amending with sulfur or lime.
• Although daylilies are adaptable to most soils, they do best in a slightly acidic, moist soil that is high in organic matter and well drained.
• Although daylilies tolerate drought, they perform best in moist, but well-drained soils. One inch of water weekly is ideal, more frequent watering may be necessary on sandy soils.
• The genus Hemerocallis is native to Asia. Since the early 1930s, hybridizers in the United States and England have made great improvements in daylilies. Originally, the only colors were yellow, orange, and red. Today, we have colors ranging from near-whites, pastels, yellows, oranges, pinks, vivid reds, crimson, purple, nearly true-blue, and pretty blends. Many people are familiar with only the common yellow or orange daylilies which are often seen along roadsides. These daylilies are cultivated forms of the wild types of daylilies which have "escaped" and are growing as if they are wild. All the modern daylilies have been developed through a complicated history of hybridization among these and other wild types.

My Sources
http://www.daylilies.org/AHSfaq1.html#origin
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG1106.html