Tired of lockdown gardening, cutting grass and squashing red lily beetles off your
lilies? Need a change? You can have the beautiful glowing trumpets of lilies without the work if you plant daylilies. That’s Hemerocallis, not Lilium, perennials not bulbs.
There’d be no lily beetle problem for a start. Daylilies are as tough as old boots, proved by the fact that you often find old varieties, such as the double orange ‘Flore Pleno’, along with peonies and Japanese anemones in abandoned gardens soldiering on under a shroud of brambles.
Hemerocallis fulva ‘Flore Pleno’
MARIANNE MAJERUS
Daylilies need no staking, whether they’re the knee-high or the chest-high varieties. The arching stems are strong and take care of themselves. In fact daylilies have none of the vertical formality of true lilies,
