Only for a day

Native or wild day lily
@GardenGerty (157027)
United States
June 27, 2017 8:15pm CST
This flower and its many hybrids bloom only for a day. They are called daylilies and can be found up and down rural roadways. Their descendants may be shorter or taller. Often they are much more compact. I have seen them bright golden yellow. That variety is sold as Stella d'Oro. I have also seen them in pastels. @marsha32 has some very compact pale peach ones. There are some that are deep dark rust colored. All are just beautiful. I wonder how beautiful we would try to make our world if we could only do so for a day. Onions and garlic, shallots and chives are also from this family, but we grow them mainly because they flavor our world. So there are two things we can do. . . we can add beauty to the world or enhance the flavor.
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@Nawsheen (28644)
• Mauritius
28 Jun 17
Wow that's a beautiful flower flowers do add beauty to.this world
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
Sometimes they also have health benefits.
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@Nawsheen (28644)
• Mauritius
29 Jun 17
@GardenGerty yes thats true. Hisbiscus tea is good to.regulate blood pressure. I read this somewhere
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@marsha32 (6631)
• United States
28 Jun 17
Mine are blooming then gone....hard to see them this year though with so much other stuff in that garden area.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
Time to dig them up and share with me.
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@ramapo17 (30457)
• Melbourne, Florida
23 Jul 17
@GardenGerty Yeah, she can send one to all of us.
• Pamplona, Spain
28 Jun 17
Gorgeous flower Heather. Pity the bloom does not last much longer but in the image its really nice also.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
It is really nice to see them up and down the roads.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
3 Jul 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 Each bloom lasts just one day.
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• Pamplona, Spain
29 Jun 17
@GardenGerty They just die off in one day? Or do they last a couple or three? There is a flower like that here also its very pretty too.
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@Shavkat (136864)
• Philippines
28 Jun 17
It is a nice bloom. Unfortunately, flowers will not stay for long. While we can see them, then we can just appreciate them.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
Maybe that is a good lesson for a lot of things. I like blooming plants better than cut flowers.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
3 Jul 17
@Shavkat I like blooming houseplants.
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@Shavkat (136864)
• Philippines
29 Jun 17
@GardenGerty I agree. I think it is nice to have them in the pots. You can bring them inside the house once and while.
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@jstory07 (133739)
• Roseburg, Oregon
28 Jun 17
I think we should try and add beauty to the world.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
I think that is part of our job.
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@ramapo17 (30457)
• Melbourne, Florida
23 Jul 17
You are so right @jstory07. It is so gross what people do to our world by tossing the trash around. It doesn't take much to pick up after oneself but some people are just lazy.
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
3 Jul 17
People in our area eat these flowers @GardenGarty You probably know these are yummy. Grown by some of our friends here who sell commercially (no bug spray ever) these are mixed in with their salad packages at the market.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
4 Jul 17
That actually sounds quite good. Do they pull out the stamens? I do not spray anything,not bugs not weeds.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
26 Jul 17
@ramapo17 Really? People eat violets too and so many other flowers.
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@ramapo17 (30457)
• Melbourne, Florida
24 Jul 17
I never heard of eating flowers in salads.
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@BarBaraPrz (45219)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Jun 17
I had two patches of daylilies at my last place, but I didn't bring any with me to my new place. Not enough room for everything. I did bring my chives, though. I like their purple blooms, as well as their delicate flavor in salads and cottage cheese.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
I brought just this one when I moved, but it turns out there is a whole patch of them and a purple flower, phlox, I think in the back. I think I need some chives in my front herb garden. I should make a point to get some.
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@BarBaraPrz (45219)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Jun 17
@GardenGerty I also brought some creeping phlox, lamium, peony, rose campium, two itty bitty hardy hibiscus (rose of sharon), some irises... would have loved to bring my wrought iron trellis complete with the climbing roses and clematis, but that would have been pushing it, wouldn't it?
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@BarBaraPrz (45219)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Jun 17
@BarBaraPrz Tried posting a pic of my old front yard, but it wouldn't show.
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@prashu228 (37524)
• India
29 Jun 17
Beautiful flower. Onions and garlic ..wow, I tried but they are not growing in our place
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
3 Jul 17
That's surprising because they seem to grow everywhere.
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@ramapo17 (30457)
• Melbourne, Florida
23 Jul 17
@GardenGerty The soil is so different in different parts of the world. When I moved to Florida from Pennsylvania/New Jersey, things that grew up there will not grow here. I joined a horticulture class and the instructor told me that. The last time I went to New Jersey, I bought the plants up there and brought them back to Florida and planted them in pots with potting soil I bought at Home Depot. They are thriving and I have given my neighbor some of them.
• United States
28 Jun 17
I was thinking all plants really are at the top of the food chain, so yes they are useful to animals and us but they are also just beautiful.
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@ramapo17 (30457)
• Melbourne, Florida
23 Jul 17
Not all plants or flowers are edible.
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• United States
23 Jul 17
@ramapo17 No they surely are not.
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• United States
28 Jun 17
They grow wild and they don't transplant well, I tried I have lilies but not the one day only kind. My flowers lasted two weeks.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
I brought this one in my move, along with an iris or two and an asiatic lily, the kind that last.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
28 Jun 17
It's lovely... pity it lasts such a short time... but that builds the anticipation and appreciationwhen it does bloom.... and anything that adds more beauty to our world... is great...however brief it is
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
The next day another opens to take its place and this goes on for quite a while.
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@ramapo17 (30457)
• Melbourne, Florida
21 Jul 17
I use to be a garden manager and everyday we would get shipments of new plants. We had so many different lilies and one was prettier than the next. The great thing with them is they come back every year and actually multiply.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
22 Jul 17
The colors are great no matter what lily they are. And they survive and persist. At my other house I had white lilies that had been someone's Easter lily at one time. I have some on the side of my house here that have been neglected and have not bloomed since I have been here. I am moving them. I suspect they are the old fashioned tiger lilies.
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@ramapo17 (30457)
• Melbourne, Florida
23 Jul 17
@GardenGerty I agree with the lily colors. They are all so pretty and different. The older they get the better they get as they spread.
@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
28 Jun 17
Day lilies are one of my summer favorites and the yard is filled with many colors of them, I dont have any onions or garlic growing, so I reckon I am bland.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
3 Jul 17
Oh, how neat.
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@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
3 Jul 17
@GardenGerty I added a photo of one of the day lilies blooming in another discussion.
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@Elisa1234 (7607)
• Philippines
28 Jun 17
Thats a beautiful flower. Havent seen that one before. Thanks for sharing
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
29 Jun 17
Hmmm. Maybe they do not grow where you live, but I bet you have a lot of nice flowers.
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@Elisa1234 (7607)
• Philippines
29 Jun 17
@GardenGerty I am not sure if we dont have like that here. But yes, We have a lot of flowers here in my country.
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@marguicha (214281)
• Chile
28 Jun 17
or do both. as it many times happens with plants. I love the beauty of the bunch onions when they blossom.
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@TheHorse (203666)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Sep 17
I'm happy with either!
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
10 Sep 17
I read somewhere that people do eat these blooms. Both beauty and flavor are great.