Daylily Prairie Blue Eyes

"Is this really just a one daylily?" I asked my husband as we have been sitting in the garden of our friends in Croatia and looked at the incredibly rich bunch of flowers. It resembled a bouquet more than a garden perennial. "It looks like 3-4 daylilies planted in one place!". A friend of ours assured me that he planted just a single plant of daylily Prairie Blue Eyes a few years ago. And the fact that it grows and blooms so smoothly is probably thanks to his wife. However, Hemerocallis Prairie Blue Eyes is really an easy to grow and blooms perennials, blooming in summer with beautiful lavender-purple flowers.

How to grow daylilies

Reserve full sunlight or light shade area in your garden to plant daylilies. Daylilies like sunshine so much but be careful, in hot areas, they do not grow well in completely dry soil on sunny place. Daylilies also like an average amount of moisture in the soil but will not be happy in soils that are water logged. Give them water regularly during their first one or two growing seasons. Their flowers will be larger and will bloom richer if regularly watered in the first part of the season.

When in bloom, feel free to cut the flowers for bouquets or even decorating of salads (as the flowers are edible). This will not injure your plants. While each flower blooms only a single day, choose stems with several larger buds.

After blooming has finished, leave the foliage in place, don't cut it off. The leaves will gather sunlight and will provide nourishment for the next year's show. Your daylilies will need rest for a few months, before beginning the next growing season.