If you grow daylilies, sharpen your garden shears this fall because there's a satisfying checklist of snipping to do. Invest some time doing some heavy-handed pruning once summer has wound down, and ...

Pruning your daylilies can encourage future growth, but the main benefits are aesthetic. Deadhead the dead flowers by hand, pinching and twisting the blooms away from the stems. If cutting back the ...

Clusters of flowers resembling lilies appear at the ends of generally leafless, wandlike stems that rise well above the foliage. Each daylily flower stays open for only one day, hence the name daylily ...

Daylilies are some of the easiest flowers to grow, and they put on a pretty spectacular show each summer. Although maintenance requirements are low, cutting back daylily plants once in a while will ...

These daylilies have been developed by one of my professors, Daryl Apps, from Penn State University. Daryl left Penn State to become the head of education at Longwood Gardens. Then started a daylily ...

Cutting back daylilies in the spring is better, as it gives them time to store energy in the fall. Spent foliage over the winter also protects the roots against cold. If you must cut back daylilies ...

The month of March is for the lionhearted as hints of spring coax gardeners outdoors, but only the brave will actually plant, prune and prepare the soil this first week of March. Winter is still ...

The trouble with June is that there are so many distractions keeping us out of the garden. The end of school brings in the start of vacation season. A trip to the beach or the mountains, a day’s ...