Yes, those plain, invasive orange day lilies. I have a full sun strip about 3’ wide and 20’ long along the road in front of a stone wall. It is usually getting salt and sand in winter and only currently works as weed breeding grounds. Looks like day lilies do not care about salt and drought, spread fast and work as flowering ground cover. This is exactly what I need. But I need at least 20 -30 roots to cover whole area. So I thought, may be somebody have very overgrown patch they are going to reduce this year… I will definitely pay shipping!
If you see some flaw in my plan or better idea, please let me know. I like a look of the lilies in front of the stone walls now at the nearby house, but I am not sure how will they look after they are done flowering.
FYI, although they CAN spread fast if conditions are good they can also spread very slowly if planted as small divisions with weed competition. Therefore I recommend clearing out any competition before planting and plant as big of decisions as you can get. You can pack single fan divisions together before planting to make them into clumps if needed
Good choice for that spot, there’s the single flowered species and the double flowered variation ‘Kwanso Fulva ?’. All I do to mine in the same type spot is remove each drying flower stalk so the patch doesn’t look to shabby. If you weren’t 1500 miles away I’d give you a wheel barrow load of them!
Thanks! The strip is now covered with black landscaping fabric I plan to keep till spring. If I get Lillie’s now, I will plant them somewhere else to move them in spring.
I doubt they will grow well with the salt conditions you describe. They may survive but not thrive.
I had some those and pulled them out or gave away. The red ones that self seed and spread are called Red Volunteer. Found at Home Depot and Oakes Daylilies.
I’m pretty sure they were Tiger Lillies, but the road I lived on before I bought this house had several very large swaths of orange day lillies for many years. most of them disappeared in one year. Some had obviously been dumped over the side of a guard rail at hte back of the property I lived on that I tried to protect, unsuccessfully, from the Town’s spraying.I loved seeing them.
I don’t know why htey went away, but a salt/sand mixture didn’t seem to affect them at all - they were mostly going up the bank from the road, so it may have washed back ot fast enough. I don’t think their disappearance coincided with a switch to brine on the roads, but it may have just aken a while.
The few I transplanted, including the few I brought with me, are all alive and well, but they do not seem to be fast spreaders by any means. The fancier ones I bought at the local farmers market have shown me lots of green this year, but those Tiger Lillies are the only ones that have given flowers yet this year.
At least what I see along the roads nearby tells me they should grow well.
I hope they do well for you.
Here they sell hybrids and everything stars at 9.99 . If I need 1-5 roots, may be. 30? Nope, it is above my price tag… I either find them free or really cheap or just keep that black plastic on.
they have gone wild here on old farmland like the rhubarb. i see the orange ones all the time. ill try to make a mental note and dig you some in oct once they go dormant.
Wow, thanks a lot!!!
I have some day lilies that I want to get rid of. But I don’t know their flower color. They are under the shade and had never flowered.
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Are you talking about this day lily, Hemerocallis Stella d’Oro - orange one , the short, neat clump.
Or Tiger lilies, a much taller, messier kind?
the second one, but I thought they are day lilies too. The tiger lilies I know are this:
Do they spread a lot? I had the orange ones before flowering in the shade just fine… So yours may be a different kind.
I have 7 ir 8 named varieties. They grow in clumps. The only ones that spread fast are those wild orange ones. Mine are in mostly shade and they spread.
Yes, they spread everywhere. That is the reason I want to dig some up. Some will probably flower since I cut a tree down and they have enough sun this year year. I will take picture when they flowers
There are also some small hostas that expand their clumps very quickly. I have a single one that I bought about 10 years ago. Now I have 10 clumps that I could probably divide into 100.
Stonecrop sedum is another plant that handles salt and drought. I have them planted at the road edge. They can be divided as they grow.
Hostas will not grow in that location - too much afternoon sun and salt during winter. I did some research on salt tolerating plants and hosta is not on the list. So far I found following list: Lilies, Yarrow, Catmint, Echinacea. The idea is to plant lilies against the wall and catmint as a next row, so it drops the branches toward the road covering from weeds. In spring, I can cut the dry leaves/branches and remove most of the sand without need to replace mulch.