Welcome to my daylily themed website featuring my home garden in Houston. In 2025, we had 336 varieties bloom, up from 216 varieties in 2024. We presently have 407 varieties going into the 2026 blooming season.
As of 04-15-26, 209 cultivars have already formed scapes (bloom stalks) of which 28 have started to bloom. At this point in 2025 & 2024 only 5 cultivars & 19 cultivars, respectively, had bloomed. See photos below. Photos are the best so far for each variety with the date of the first flower (not necessarily the photo date).
As of 04-15-26, 209 cultivars have already formed scapes (bloom stalks) of which 28 have started to bloom. At this point in 2025 & 2024 only 5 cultivars & 19 cultivars, respectively, had bloomed. See photos below. Photos are the best so far for each variety with the date of the first flower (not necessarily the photo date).
Apr 13 to Apr 15 - 8 cultivars bloomed: Spell Fire, Awaken Them Dreams, Evelyn Kloeris, Jeffrey Warder, Christmas Tidings, Green Turtle Key, Tranquility Bay & When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Mar 22 to Apr 12 - 20 cultivars bloomed: City of Echoes, Fae Forged, Pink Nouveau, Heavenly Double Stunner, Spacecoast Gold Rush, Top Show Off, Midnight Butterfly, Chromacolor, Little Party Girl, Jeremy's Sweet Smile, Absolutely Stellar, Kenya, Seedling RW, Spectral Elegance, Susan Pritchard Petit, Lava Flow, Lines of Splendor, Eagerly Anticipated, Fortune's Dearest, Siloam Double Classic & Spell Fire
As to which cultivars bloomed on a specific day, see slide show below for Apr 13.
Apr 13 - Today thirteen cultivars bloomed: Absolutely Stellar, Chromacolor, City of Echoes, Eagerly Anticipated, Heavenly Double Stunner, Lava Flow, Lines of Splendor, Little Party Girl, Seedling RW, Spacecoast Gold Rush, Spectral Elegance, Spell Fire & Susan Pritchard Petit
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.
My wife often picks the best flowers and brings them indoors and places them in bud vases. See below for her 04-27-25 selections.
16 of the Cultivars blooming on Apr 27th
Front row: One Eyed Dragon, Little Party Girl, Caribbean Magic
Second Row: Christmas Tidings, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Et Rosa's Cantina, Olive Baily Langdon
Third Row: Sultry Siren, Double Image, Octopus Hugs, Unknown Seedling, Autumn Concerto
Back row: Ginger Bread Man, Royal Heiress, Key to My Heart, Mountain Lilac
Front row: One Eyed Dragon, Little Party Girl, Caribbean Magic
Second Row: Christmas Tidings, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Et Rosa's Cantina, Olive Baily Langdon
Third Row: Sultry Siren, Double Image, Octopus Hugs, Unknown Seedling, Autumn Concerto
Back row: Ginger Bread Man, Royal Heiress, Key to My Heart, Mountain Lilac
We now have 407 daylily varieties ... up from 268 varieties in Sep 2024. 2026 plantings: 17 new varieties from Houston Hemerocallis Society on May 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 and 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.
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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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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