Some 30 years ago I was given my first daylily (hemerocallis). It was not something I had been particularly longing for. Yes, I’d known about these plants, and yes, their flowers were OK. But I hadn’t been bowled over by them. I duly planted my gift and, in its third summer, once it was happily growing into a sizeable clump, it threw out an amazing mass of flowering stems. The variety was ‘Pink Damask’, and when I saw the impressive display of deep salmon-pink, trumpet-shaped lily-like flowers, produced in succession, I was hooked.
Daylilies – and yes, each individual flower does last just one day – can be grown in any part of the garden, but
