These pages are dedicated to my experience growing Daylilies (Hemerocallis) in a cold climate - Zone 5 - with very cold and wet Springs and cool nights in August.
Here you'll find information on:
How to Plant Foliage Type and Hardiness
Diseases Pests
Organic Controls
Hybridizing & a seedling image gallery
Pictorial How-to's:
Dividing a clump
Planting divisions and Proliferations
Damage from insects - what to look for
My name is Nancy Oakes and I garden on Prince Edward Island on the East Coast of Canada, classified as Zone 5, although it's a very different Zone 5 from places inland. The Maritime climate moderates extremes to a certain degree, but there can be very long, cold, wet Springs here and that's the time when new Daylily cultivars are put to the test.
I have been collecting daylilies for about 30 years, but it has only been in the last 12 or so that I have become involved in a big way, including hybridizing. I grow approximately 900 Daylily cultivars with about 100 new cultivars being added annually.