Welcome to my daylily themed website (over 3,000 pictures) featuring my home garden in Houston. As of 09-12-24, we are down to just one or two daylily varieties blooming each day. The flower color is no longer faded the last two weeks as high temps have been in the upper 80s or low 90s, not the upper 90s.
See below for daylilies that have rebloomed since Aug 15th including the number of days with flowers this past month (well almost).
If you're new to the website, try clicking on the Best Photo red page link below to see all 214 varieties with the date of the first flower, last flower and number of days with flowers.
Not sure anyone else discloses how often their daylilies bloom. I also sort the daylily varieties (cultivars) into Favorites, Solid Performers and Wish for More Blooms (i.e. very few flowers) with slide shows with a least 10 pictures per variety. Try clicking on the 2024 Double Daylilies red page link.
We are still in the rebloom season though by the end of August we should be down to less than 5 varieties blooming per day. However, we had 17 varieties bloom on Aug 5 ... the best day in over a month! See slide show below.
Not sure anyone else discloses how often their daylilies bloom. I also sort the daylily varieties (cultivars) into Favorites, Solid Performers and Wish for More Blooms (i.e. very few flowers) with slide shows with a least 10 pictures per variety. Try clicking on the 2024 Double Daylilies red page link.
We are still in the rebloom season though by the end of August we should be down to less than 5 varieties blooming per day. However, we had 17 varieties bloom on Aug 5 ... the best day in over a month! See slide show below.
I have added a rebloom page showing the best 3 flowers by day beginning with July 1 and now running thru Aug 15. Because it is so hot here in Houston, rebloom flowers can be faded and often scapes produce just 2 or 3 flowers. Not so this year with all the rain we've had. Check out link below.
See below for links to individual daylily variety slide shows organized by color (yellow, pink) or type (unusual form, double) with up to 10 pictures per cultivar. The best place to start is first red link: Best photo for all daylily varieties that bloomed in 2024.
Haven't seen the bunny for over a month now ... enjoyed his/her company for 3 months while growing up ... off to find another bunny perhaps!
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.
My name is Richard and I do have a website-based email address:
[email protected]
So, if you have a question about a particular daylily variety, you have a way to contact me. I don't sell daylilies, but give away over 100 fans a year to friends and the Houston Hemerocallis Society.
My name is Richard and I do have a website-based email address:
[email protected]
So, if you have a question about a particular daylily variety, you have a way to contact me. I don't sell daylilies, but give away over 100 fans a year to friends and the Houston Hemerocallis Society.
Week of 06-30-24 - Featured Slide Shows
Answering Angels, Early Snow, Fire Bird Suite & Siloam Double Classic
Answering Angels - 4 plants (16 scapes), 5.5 inch flowers, 24 inches tall, early midseason, evergreen, prolific bloomer, bloomed Apr 19 to Jun 29, now reblooming, 30 days with flowers so far in 2024, 20 days with flowers in 2023, there were 45 days with flowers in 2022 with several reblooms, planted 10-22-19, purchased from Breck's
Early Snow - 6 plants (14 fans), large 7 inch flowers, 29 inches tall, early, dormant, favorite white daylily, huge flowers, bloomed May 4 to Jun 30, now reblooming, 27 days with flowers so far in 2024, 31 days with flowers in 2023, there were 54 days with flowers in 2022 with reblooms, planted 2016 - Spring Hill, 10-11-20 - Breck's
Fire Bird Suite - 4 plants (9 fans), 8 inch flowers, 40 inches tall, early midseason, evergreen, bloomed May 3 to Jun 30, 21 days with flowers in 2024, 10 days with flowers in 2023, there were 37 days with flowers in 2022, slow to open in morning, beautiful large flowers, planted 03-09-21, purchased from Oaks
Siloam Double Classic - 2 plants (14 fans), 5 inch flowers, 16 inches tall, early midseason, dormant, bloomed Apr 13 to May 20, 24 days with flowers in 2024 which included a rebloom, 9 days with flowers in 2023, 36 days with flowers in 2022 including a rebloom, planted 03-09-21, purchased from Gilbert Wild
Daylily Cuttings
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Wife makes good use of her bud vases during daylily season. See above.
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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In addition, you will find links to individual daylily variety slide shows organized by color (yellow, pink) or type (double, spider) with up to 16 pictures per variety.
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 11 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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