As I mentioned before, I've never been able to grow day lilies. However, a friend gave me a start and it's doing extremely well. But, having no experience, I don't know if I need to dead head or not. If I do dead head, do I take the entire stem that flowered, or just the little knobby things at the top?
If they are a repeat bloomer then deadheading will keep them blooming through the season until fall. You cut the stalk off at the base. If they are not, then it's a job that doesn't need to be done as they only bloom once. What kind of Daylily do you have?
Toni, I wish I knew what kind I have! It has been blooming for over a month, and is orange and yellow. Now, isn't that helpful!
What you might try is cutting them back after blooming then wait to see if they rebloom in late summer/early fall. There are over 30,000 cultivars of Daylilies, I have no idea which one you have but it is very pretty.
I deadhead every day just to have a neater garden...Take just the flower head off...make sure you get the whole thing or your daylily will set seed I think they call it. It looks like a ball and it swells up..called a seed pod. I usually miss a few and end up with the larger size ball but I just pick it off. That's about all I know about them...keep them watered and they will be happy. Our weather this summer has been hard on them here and I have a lot of dead leaves...Just make sure you don't pinch a new bloom that will open off.
OOps...forgot to finish what I was going to say...when the daylily is done blooming I cut the scapes off after they dry. Sometimes you can pull them out if they are ready too. Sometimes I just trim them all off, depending how much time I have and how neat I want things to look.
Sherry, I have been pulling up the brown/dead stems that had flowers on them. So far I don't have any seed pods forming. Your explanation was helpful--thank you!
