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Article: Low-maintenance daylilies become a standby in gardens.(Home & Garden)(The art of gardening)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2003
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Byline: Brenda O'Brien The Planter's Palette
If you're looking for the ultimate in low maintenance perennials, plants that need little care and are virtually disease and insect free, take a look at daylilies.
The humble Hemerocallis has always been valued as a hardy, vigorous plant, but today gardeners are praising modern hybrids for large blooms, intoxicating fragrance, dazzling color and extended bloom time.
Indeed, hybridizers have been so busy that it's impossible to keep track of the thousands of new varieties of daylilies introduced each decade. And although bubblegum pink and true blue still remain elusive in the daylily palette, ...