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The genus Hemerocallis, daylily, owes its name to the fact that each lilyshaped bloom flowers only one day. This apparently leads sometimes to a misunderstanding about the garden value, but the plant makes flowers everyday, so that the season is much longer, four to six weeks. The original species, from China and Japan, are smallflowered compared to the contemporary hybrids, and simply yellow, orange or orangered. All exuberant shapes and colours, bred by dozens of specialized hybridizers, and still many more amateurs, stem from those few sorts.

A second misunderstanding is, that a daylily would be a lily, and that it would be damaged by Red Lily Beetles. A Red Lily Beetle is a beautiful lacquer-red beetle that causes a lot of damage in lilies. Fortunately for daylily-growers however, daylilies belong to the Hemerocallidaceae, and they have no bulbs but fibrous roots. The naughty beetle does not seem to like the plant.

Of the more than 50.000 hybrid-cultivars, registrated at the moment, we grow on the limited space we have reserved for that purpose, about 110 cultivars. So that when there are interesting developments (longer, richer or recurrent flowering, improved  weather-resistance, the emergence of a new colour or shape, and of course the occasional love-at-first-sights), we have to remove others and that is getting more and more difficult. 

Mr. Wim Willemsen in Veenendaal is holding  the Dutch Plant Collection of Hemerocallis. For location and opening hours, see: More. 

 On page Hemerocallis-2 you can find a list of the sorts we grow at the moment, with a brief description. For books, internetsites and nurseries, see: More. 

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