Daylilies Blooming
By DE
@DaddyEvil (152202)
United States
June 29, 2025 6:46am CST
We've lived here for over 7 years and didn't realize until last year that we had daylilies growing by our front porch. As far as I can remember, that was the first time they bloomed. I did dig in that flowerbed two years ago, planting some fountain grass starts that didn't survive the tough winter here. I'm wondering if me digging among their roots revitalized the daylilies into blooming?
Photo is mine.
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@arunima25 (91245)
• Bangalore, India
29 Jun
I am not sure if that would have revitalized them. But they are gorgeous! You just enjoy them.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
Thank you... They do look really nice... We don't have many blooming plants growing in this yard.
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@arunima25 (91245)
• Bangalore, India
29 Jun
@DaddyEvil Why so? Are they not able to survive outdoors?
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
@arunima25 Yes, they could survive here as long as I can see to go out and water them every couple of days. Since Pretty won't help me water plants, I'd rather not kill them if I don't need to.
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@LindaOHio (193156)
• United States
29 Jun
Very nice. I am hoping my plants and flowers recover from being choked by all the weeds. I did lose one azalea bush.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
Thanks.
I didn't think anything would kill azalea bushes. We had one at our last house that got eaten by Japanese beetles and it kept on growing and blooming.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
@LindaOHio Ours went from a little scrawny twig to a tall bush in a couple of years. I just fertilized it and kept it watered.
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@LindaOHio (193156)
• United States
29 Jun
@DaddyEvil You're welcome. I may replace it at some point. The others are looking really scrawny; but maybe they will recover.
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@RebeccasFarm (95312)
• Arvada, Colorado
29 Jun
Probably so..digging around the roots would stimulate them.
They are lovely to look at.
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@RebeccasFarm (95312)
• Arvada, Colorado
30 Jun
@DaddyEvil Oh just one day..short and sweet.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
30 Jun
@RebeccasFarm True... I wish they had an odor other than green, growing plant.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
Thank you. I need to deadhead them and see if they'll keep blooming for a while. Each flower only lasts one day and then they wilt/die.
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@LadyDuck (477692)
• Italy
30 Jun
@DaddyEvil - I had "spontaneous" flowers after I dug some areas of my garden. I remember even a beautiful red rose. Even the gardener did not believe until he saw.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
I think so... I'll make a point of digging around them if they don't bloom in the spring again.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
They are pretty but I would have preferred seeing the decorative grass I planted growing there.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
@JudyEv They're a pain cutting them down early in the spring but the rest of the year I love them. 
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@JudyEv (357176)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jun
@DaddyEvil At our niece's where we house-sat, she has a lot of ornamental grasses.
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@porwest (102310)
• United States
29 Jun
We get these every year. We have some in the front alongside the garage and some in the back along the fence. We always called them tiger lillies though. They are quite pretty and are blooming now as we speak and have been for at least a week or two now.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
Tiger lilies have black spots on the orange petals. Mom had some of them on the farm, too.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
@porwest I think tiger lilies are prettier than daylilies but not everyone agrees with me.
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@porwest (102310)
• United States
29 Jun
@DaddyEvil Hmm. I will have to look at ours closeup. I think they do have black spots, but I'm not certain about that. I'll be out there later and will have a look.
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@GardenGerty (164465)
• United States
29 Jun
It probably did loosen things up for them. Mine like this just started blooming. I have some Stella d'Oro day lilies that are smaller and have been blooming like crazy. They are that pretty yellow. A lot of people call these big orange ones "ditch lilies" because they grow all over in the wild. I like them. I brought them with me from my other house, but surprise!! they also grow at the back of my lot.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
Daylilies grow "wild" in ditches because people thin them out and toss the extra root stock into a nearby ditch and they take root there.
My first wife and I had Stella D'Oro growing in one of our flowerbeds. I loved them!
Ours just started blooming a few days ago. I like tiger lilies better but these are nice, too.1 person likes this
@snowy22315 (192013)
• United States
29 Jun
They look pretty. I have never grown lillies.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
Thank you. This is the first time they've been at a property I've bought or rented. I remember mom growing them on the farm but didn't pay attention to what she did around them.
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@allknowing (148587)
• India
29 Jun
Quite likely as those bulbs needed a bit of pushing
We have had them for years but these days they have stayed dormant
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
I didn't realize they needed to have help after they were in the ground for a few years... I'll make a point of digging around their roots from now on.
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@allknowing (148587)
• India
29 Jun
@DaddyEvil They will from now on bloom without any help.
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@FourWalls (76215)
• United States
29 Jun
Maybe the heat and the rain and the digging, or the cicadas popped them out when they made their once-every-17-year visit.
Glad you’re around. I’m seeing a lot of flash flooding in your neck of the woods.
Glad you’re around. I’m seeing a lot of flash flooding in your neck of the woods.2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
We won't flood here... well, a few streets will flood but not in the part of the city where we live. The water would have to fill the culvert before it could reach our yard. That culvert is several feet deep and seven or eight feet across.
I think the digging when I planted the fountain grass last fall helped them bloom this year.2 people like this
@Juliaacv (54003)
• Canada
29 Jun
@DaddyEvil We didn't have them on the farm growing up, even my Gramma never grew them, maybe they don't like that old hard Tilbury East clay that we had there.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
@Juliaacv In my part of Missouri, it's all clay. I always dig out the clay and make a nice bed for any flower plants I want to grow and do well. Mom and dad did the same thing on our farm... even the garden was dug out and the "soil" amended until food plants were happy in it.
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
I think it did. I'd still rather have the decorative grass there but I don't mind the daylilies blooming now.
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@RasmaSandra (86493)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 Jun
They are very colorful and lovely,
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
29 Jun
Thanks... There's no way I could have missed seeing them all these years. I really think digging among them to plant the fountain grass stimulated them into blooming.
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@ptrikha_2 (48124)
• India
29 Jun
The digging could have revitalized the natural growing power of soil.
Or may be accidentally some unknown nutrients made their way to the bottom of soil.
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@ptrikha_2 (48124)
• India
30 Jun
@DaddyEvil
I think this holds similarly for a recommendation for leaves pruning which is said to enhance many plants' growth.
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@much2say (57668)
• Los Angeles, California
3h
What a fun surprise! I suppose that's possible . . . it gave it the right condition for them to pop out. We have 2 dwarf ones in pots . . . I thought they were goners a long time ago too . . . they bothered to bloom earlier in the spring. Nature finds a way I guess!
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@DaddyEvil (152202)
• United States
3h
I never even thought about the daylilies when I was digging holes for the fountain grass starts... But the winter was too harsh for them to survive so I'm glad the daylilies started blooming.
