Today’s photographs feature some of the beauties that have been stealing the limelight around the garden this week. Lest you should think that I have nothing but daylilies, I have added a new page to my blog, a garden inventory of plants. Many of these plants are new this year, so won’t reach their full potential for another year or two. Meanwhile, the daylilies continue to be the stars of the July garden.
Ruby Spider
Umbrella Parade
Autumn Mineret
Frans Hals and monarda
Siloam Little Girl
Chance Encounter
Bonanza and hostas
New Series
Trahlyta
South Seas
Willow House Chronicles 
Sigh, your daylilies are so beautiful!
I’m just beginning to explore the types of daylilies that you have to order, or go directly to the distributor to purchase. This year I got, among other things, and from different sources, two Siloams.
All of my other new daylilies are doing great. The two Siloams are growing, but they seem to not be as vigorous as others. One, I thought I had lost, but I see that it is finally putting forth some new shoots. The other looks perfectly healthy, but I don’t think it has grown all that much since I planted it.
Are Siloams harder to raise, or did this just “happen?”
so very pretty.
barefootheart — you have an absolutely beautiful collection of all kind of different daylilies. I bet your soil is terrific and also that you take good care of them. Thanks for posting the wonderful shots of your plants. — barbara
Thank you, Louise. The Siloams were hybridized by Pauline Henry of Siloam Springs, Arkansas. She registered some 490 daylilies, all with names starting with Siloam over her long career. She died in 2000 at the age of 92. The Siloams have a good reputation, though no doubt some do better than others. I have grown half a dozen or so, of which Siloam Little Girl is a favorite. All have done well for me. Maybe just coincidence that you ran in to a couple of strugglers?
I order all my daylilies by mailorder in the late winter. Generally speaking, it is a good idea to deal with someone with climate conditions similar to your own, (as opposed to, say, Florida) so you have some assurance that the hybrids they sell are likely to do well in your yard. Although by no means a hard and fast rule, newer varieties (ie post-late 1980s, 1990 and more recent) may have been bred for larger blooms, stronger stems, hardiness and good bud count.
Thank you, iMadeItSo and Barbara. It is a joy to visit the garden every morning and see what is blooming today. The work a garden takes is well-rewarded.
tank you,nice post ,..
Thanks for taking the time to educate me a bit, barefootheart. This year I ordered from a place in Vermont, and I was very happy with all of the plants that I got, and with the service that I received when I notified them that the Siloam wasn’t doing well. Since then, I have also found a place only a couple of hours from me. I’ll go there and pick some up in early fall, I think. I guess it was just by chance that both Siloams (both doubles by the way) are not as robust as the others.
Ah, I have heard rumours that Siloam Double Classic takes a while to settle in, though I haven’t grown it myself. It certainly is lovely. Vermont should have a suitably frosty climate to test it!
If you’re really diving into daylilies, it can be fun to join a local club and go to some of the meetings. The northeast is all part of AHS region 4. You can find your local club here: http://www.ahsregion4.org/
The Ontario Daylily Society is hosting the big regional meeting next July.