As the summer day begins, Patty Smith takes her mug of coffee, walks a short distance and says, “Good morning,” to her friends. In the evening, she will take that same leisurely stroll with a glass of ...

The town of Monson is going to have its name up in lights, at least in the world of daylilies. Maybe it’s just 30 seconds of fame that follows registration of an original hybridized variety of daylily ...

In nature, many beautiful things are fleeting. Such is the case with the daylily, with flowers that last for no more than one day. Luckily, daylilies are profuse bloomers producing a new flower each ...

Last May, I had the pleasure and privilege of visiting Marsha Crisler’s beautiful Crawford Daylily Gardens in Crawfordville. As the numerous deer that regularly visit my yard prevent me from ...

SOUTH NEWFANE — To call it a riot of color would be an understatement. During the high summer months of July and August, Olallie Daylily Gardens explode with (almost) all the colors on the rainbow ...

Bill Wente prefers daylilies with eyes and edges. Such a daylily has a different color in the center of the bloom’s throat and along the edge of its petals and sepals. Such a flower could put to shame ...

The popular daylily -- to many gardeners the "perfect" perennial -- now exists in a less-than-perfect world. Daylily rust or Puccinia hemerocallidis, a fungal disease identified in this country in ...

Last weekend proved to be an excellent opportunity for Southeast Texas gardeners to enjoy time outdoors, hopefully completing garden tasks before summer’s arrival. As with most gardeners, my time is ...

When the afterglow of spring is long gone, daylilies spread rainbows of color through the summer garden. From late spring to frost they are the stars, but they are not temperamental stars. They are ...

NEWFANE — My wise friend once told me at dusk: "Nothing in this world remains wholesome if multiplied to excess." Try as I might to test it, her statement holds, even when challenging the hypothesis ...