Welcome to my daylily themed website featuring my home garden in Houston. The 2025 daylily bloom season is alas complete. Olive Bailey Langdon produced the last flower on Oct 13. In 2025, we had 336 varieties bloom, up from 216 varieties in 2024. With the purchase of 41 more varieties from Bell's Daylily Garden this fall, we now have 417 varieties! Could we have 400 varieties bloom in 2026? We'll have to see!
The website now has slideshows with up to ten pictures of each of the 336 varieties followed by a description of the flower size, scape height, bloom timing, foliage type, days of flowers & vendor I bought the cultivar from. Here is Serengeti Sunrise, the last cultivar to start blooming in 2026.
The website now has slideshows with up to ten pictures of each of the 336 varieties followed by a description of the flower size, scape height, bloom timing, foliage type, days of flowers & vendor I bought the cultivar from. Here is Serengeti Sunrise, the last cultivar to start blooming in 2026.
Serengeti Sunrise - 1 plant (6 fans), 5.5 inch flowers, 23 inches tall, early midseason, evergreen, bloomed Jul 24 to Aug 10, 12 days with flowers in 2025, planted 03-31-25, hybridized by Bill Jarvis
Click on link below for the best photo for all 336 cultivars in first to bloom order with the number of days of flowers, first and last bloom dates and if the cultivar actually rebloomed.
If you'd like to see slideshows for some of my new cultivars that bloomed this year, click on the link below.
Click on link below for slideshows for the 98 varieties that produced 20 or more days of flowers in 2025. These would be my favorites this year.
Click on link below for slideshows for the 104 varieties with 10 to 19 days of flowers in 2025. Decent production but not top of the line flowering!
Click on link below for slideshows for the 134 varieties that had 1 to 9 days of flowers in 2025. Obviously we'd like more days of flowers ... though first year bloomers are given a pass ... just happy they produced some flowers.
My wife often picks the best flowers and brings them indoors and places them in bud vases. See below for her Apr 27 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 392 daylily varieties ... up from 268 varieties in Sep 2024. 2025 plantings so far: 53 new varieties from Amador Flower Farm on Mar 15, 24 new varieties from Houston Hemerocallis Society 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 from Bell's Daylily Garden on Sep 26th.
By the way, most varieties produced fewer days of flowers in 2025 versus 2024. The 180 varieties that are 3 or more years old have produced an average of 19 days of flowers in 2025 ... down from 23 days in 2024. The 180 varieties initial scape formed an average of 12 days later in 2025 than 2024 ... probably due to 5 days of low temperatures ranging from 18 degrees to 30 degrees from Jan 20-25, 2025, versus 4 days of temps ranging from 19 degrees to 31 degrees from Jan 14-17, 2024. There were also 2 days of temps below freezing on Feb 20/21, 2025, versus none since Jan 17 in 2024. Later first flowers in 2025 result in fewer blooms before the summer heat sets in would be the theory for the decrease in the average days of flowers.
I do have some vegetables/flowers other than daylilies. See below.
By the way, most varieties produced fewer days of flowers in 2025 versus 2024. The 180 varieties that are 3 or more years old have produced an average of 19 days of flowers in 2025 ... down from 23 days in 2024. The 180 varieties initial scape formed an average of 12 days later in 2025 than 2024 ... probably due to 5 days of low temperatures ranging from 18 degrees to 30 degrees from Jan 20-25, 2025, versus 4 days of temps ranging from 19 degrees to 31 degrees from Jan 14-17, 2024. There were also 2 days of temps below freezing on Feb 20/21, 2025, versus none since Jan 17 in 2024. Later first flowers in 2025 result in fewer blooms before the summer heat sets in would be the theory for the decrease in the average days of flowers.
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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