How to grow daylilies from seed

Is the ground soft enough to dig? If you said yes, you can plant daylilies. That's the short answer, and it holds true in warmer parts of the U.S.

The longer answer is more ... nuanced. Cold-climate gardeners can get away with planting these hardy-blooming bulbs between early spring and late fall when the soil temperature is still average.

Transplanting daylilies

Winter, well, you can't dig into the ground, can you? Plants grown from seed and those sourced from divided clumps have unique requirements, from stratification to overwintering to hardening off.

Whether you've purchased — or acquired or been gifted — bare-root stock (with or without bulbs) or plants in containers, the general planting advice from experts goes like this: plant daylilies as early in spring as the soil thaws up to a few weeks before the frost hits in the fall — if you get frosts, that is.

In fact, a lot of nurseries, including daylily specialist growers, ship new plants starting in March and going through to October. Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are tough pla

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