Welcome to my daylily themed website featuring my home garden in Houston. So far in 2026, 355 varieties of daylilies have bloomed. In 2025, we had 336 varieties bloom. This website is fairly unique in that I share how many days each cultivar blooms each year. Wouldn't you prefer varieties that bloom say 15 or more days versus ones (perhaps more beautiful) that only bloom 5 days each year?
I will also have slideshows with photos from first to last day for each daylily variety that blooms this year. How about one for Spacecoast Lemon Fangs which had a whopping 20 days of large 8.5 inch unusual form flowers (Apr 28 to May 26) on tall 38 inch bloom stalks (scapes) in just its first year.
I will also have slideshows with photos from first to last day for each daylily variety that blooms this year. How about one for Spacecoast Lemon Fangs which had a whopping 20 days of large 8.5 inch unusual form flowers (Apr 28 to May 26) on tall 38 inch bloom stalks (scapes) in just its first year.
Check out the links below to see new daylily cultivars that bloomed this year.
Link to 2026 slideshows for 17 cultivars from Bell's planted on 09-26-25
Link to 2026 slideshows for 18 cultivars from HHS planted on 03-29-26
Over 280 other cultivars from prior years bloomed again in 2026. Check out the links below. Daylilies are grouped by colors (red, white etc.), doubles and spiders/unusual form.
Link to 27 Red Cultivars - 2026
Yes, I do grow some vegetables: Early Girl, Roma Plum & Large Cherry Tomatoes - 06-12-26
30 cultivars picked by my wife on July 3. We were down to 34 cultivars blooming that day producing 41 flowers. Looks like she missed 4. I bet she'll try again to get all the varieties blooming ... perhaps tomorrow!
See photos below for the last 28 daylilies to bloom this year and a link to the webpage with the other 322 varieties that bloomed so far in 2026.
May 21 to Jul 3 - 33 cultivars started to bloom (bloom history updated thru Jul 3): Heady Perfume, Chicago Apache, Indian Giver, Isle of Patmos, Memories of Treva, Chicago Star, Prediction, Inner Strength, National Treasure, Double Bold One, Purple Oddity, Hearts and Lace, Dallas Star, Enchanted Forest, North Garden Chief, Olive Baily Landgon, Spiral Galaxy, Margo Reed Indeed, Hot Bronze, South Street, Fol de Rol, Seedling DY, String Bikini, Fire King, Christmas Down South, Octopus Tangles, Talquin's Sangria, Mighty Icon, Baby Rattle, Seedling RM, Goldenzelle, Fred's Red, Prickly Sensation
If you prefer Vegetables to Daylilies, try clicking on the red link below.
For daylily photos from 2025, click on the red links below.
Not all cultivars produce the same number of days of flowers. Of the 336 varieties that bloomed in 2025, 98 produced 20 or more days of flowers, 104 produced 10 to 19 days of flowers & 134 produced less than 10 days of flowers.
We now have 406 daylily varieties ... up from 268 varieties in Sep 2024. 2026 plantings: 17 new varieties from Houston Hemerocallis Society on Mar 29th. 2025 plantings: 53 new varieties from Amador Flower Farm on Mar 15, 24 new varieties from HHS on Mar 31st, 15 new varieties from Woodhenge Gardens also on Mar 31st and 8 new varieties from The Lily Farm on Jun 1st and 20 new varieties on Sep 26th & 21 new varieties on Nov 7th from Bell's Daylily Garden.
I do have some vegetables/flowers other than daylilies. See below.
I do have some vegetables/flowers other than daylilies. See below.
If you're new to the website, try clicking on the Best Photo red page link below to see all 216 varieties with the date of the first flower, last flower and number of days with flowers.
We did have a bunny last spring. He was born about 6 houses away
and somehow found our backyard to live in for about 3 months. We do miss him!
and somehow found our backyard to live in for about 3 months. We do miss him!
06-29-24 last Bunny video ... what did Eddie Murphy do? ... talk to the ...
Toward the bottom on this webpage, you will find a slideshow showing pictures of my Houston Garden from 2013 to the present day.
Here are some other pics from my garden.
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Daylily pictures of all 167 cultivars (varieties) that have bloomed in 2023 in my Houston Garden can be found in the link below.
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Almost all these daylilies were purchased from major daylily catalog vendors since I began growing daylilies in 2016.
2022 was a great year for daylilies and I did an evaluation of how my daylilies performed by vendor. I've bought from
Amador Flower Farm, Breck's, Ellies, Gilbert H Wild & Son, K.van Bourgondien, Oakes, Olallie Daylily Gardens, Schreiner's Iris Gardens, Smokeys's Gardens & Spring Hill.
And the comments are almost all positive. Had no problems with receiving the ordered daylilies in good shape in a timely manner. The evaluation is more about how the daylilies performed (i.e bloomed) in 2022 here in Houston, Texas.
2022 was a great year for daylilies and I did an evaluation of how my daylilies performed by vendor. I've bought from
Amador Flower Farm, Breck's, Ellies, Gilbert H Wild & Son, K.van Bourgondien, Oakes, Olallie Daylily Gardens, Schreiner's Iris Gardens, Smokeys's Gardens & Spring Hill.
And the comments are almost all positive. Had no problems with receiving the ordered daylilies in good shape in a timely manner. The evaluation is more about how the daylilies performed (i.e bloomed) in 2022 here in Houston, Texas.
The Rest of the Garden
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I do grow other flowers besides daylilies. Click on the link below to see Matrix Pansies, Snapdragons, Bachelor Buttons, Gerbera Daisies and Hibiscus
2023 Other Flowers - link to webpage
2023 Other Flowers - link to webpage
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I've grown vegetables for the last 40 years. Click on link below to see Tomatoes, Peppers, Cucumbers and Lettuce from my 2023 garden.
2023 Vegetables - link to webpage
2023 Vegetables - link to webpage
Click on the upper left-hand corner to view slide show below for pics of garden over the last 12 years. Or just scroll down pics on right and click on photo to view.
I’m Richard, a weekend gardener who lives in Houston Texas. Well maybe that isn't entirely accurate considering the number and size of the beds in the backyard. I started the current garden back in the winter of 2012/2013 when I built four 4 foot by 12 foot raised beds two landscape timbers high in my backyard which I quickly filled with vegetables the following spring. Of course, the four beds were expanded to six beds and an additional two landscape timbers were added to increase the loose soil depth. Additional beds followed as you can see in the slideshow above. In addition, you will note three 4 foot fence posts (1 foot of which is cemented below ground) were added to each side of the 12 foot beds to allow adjustable frames to be built over the beds so that tomato plants can be covered with netting to keep fruit from the birds and enable bell pepper plants to be covered with 30% shade cloth during 90 degree plus summer heat.
Gardens are all about hard work … constructing the beds … adding the soil … planting … watering … weeding and yes enjoying the fruits of your labor be it fresh vegetables or beautiful flowers.
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