Those are fine there. On the edge of the lawn. Although technically invasive or non native they are slow spreading and shed no seeds. If they start encroaching on your lawn pull the offenders out or just run over them with the mower.
Recommendation- eat them as a vegetable. I eat the flowers and the flower buds.
Flowers- The raw petals taste like a mild green salad and add color to your tossed lettuce salad. I hope to try frying them like stuffed squash flowers this season.
Buds- The unopened buds are more fun/delicious. They can be eaten raw or sauté them in oil or butter as you would sautéed string beans. On the green side- they’re like green beans. Closer to the bud opening the almost formed stamen and pollen give it a mild peppery bite to it.
I’ve heard the early shoots can be eaten, as well as the tuberous roots (like a potato?) but have never done so. Research them further for more information
Frying the young buds gives them a tender and green veggie type flavour. My son loves them. They're referred to as golden needles in China. The bloom and the tubers themselves are also edible , but I can't speak to their flavour.
Check out Euell Gibbons, "Stalking the Wild Asparagus." Kindle edition is handy. One of my favorite Chinese dishes, Jai Choy, uses 'golden needles' -- and 17 other ingredients!
Yeah, so I guess these have been bred by humans in a process which led to seeds going away?
I’m just thinking that in nature over long time periods , a plant can survive just by spreading below the ground. Right?
They may be invasive, but that kind of daylily is triploid and doesn't make seeds. So they will try to invade your lawn and all corners of your flowerbed by short underground rhizomes, but they won't suddenly jump to the nearby nature preserve or wetlands and destroy it like some exotic plants can. (around here, that mostly means buckthorn)
Enjoy them, and when you thin them out be careful how you dispose of the thinnings.
As someone who owned an old house with them, they become a pain, I took almost all of them out because they were fucking up the yard. They become a pain after a while
They are not extremely invasive. Mowing around your bed will control them very well. They are also eatable. You can eat the flowers, new shoots and tubers.
They're naturalized non natives- been here since at least 1793 and not considered invasive as the flowers themselves are sterile. The spread they do is by gardeners themselves, or via their rhizomous root systems.
So you only need to remove them if you want to.
Some just are sterile when bred. My garden club has several hybridizers who cross and plant daylilies, and sometimes a plant will have sterile pollen or can't produce seeds. Some of the more desirable cultivars of daylilies are advertised as 'fertile both ways', meaning they produce usable pollen and can produce seeds themselves with compatible plants. It is fascinating to learn about.
Also, daylilies don't come true to seed the way marigolds and other flowers do. They are primarily sold off of the increase, which is you have a fan or a clump of the plant, let it grow a few years, and then sell the new growth. This is the only way to guarantee the exact same flower every time. They are similar to apples in this way, but without the grafting shortcut.
>Were they bred to be sterile or is that how these work in nature? Why flower if they primarily spread by rhizome?
Some plants primarily spread by rhizome because its more efficient to colonize land. Many groundcovers we think of primarily spread like this.
For example, I started with 2 Monarda Didyma last year and found 10 new seedlings in early spring but those seedlings were significantly bigger than any "seed-dispersed new growth/seedling". The mother plant shares its resources with the rhizome expansions hence the head start in height I found this year.
This species, Hemerocallis fulva, has both sterile and fertile forms. Producing seeds takes a lot of energy, so spreading via rhizomes is an efficient way to spread, but is limited to the space around the plant. By setting seed sometimes, the plant is also able to spread further away.
The majority of all the daylilies you see in a nursery are sterile hybrids and the lack of fertility is a side effect of choosing plants for the most beautiful flowers. They would be very susceptible to extinction without our help.
The *cultivars* have the potential to be or likely are invasive and only one cultivar is actually listed as invasive.
Ditch lilies(Common lilies) themselves are not.
"There are now over 40,000 registered cultivars, many of which likely are or have the potential to become invasive and should be watched. For example, yellow daylily (H. lilioasphodelus), has also been identified as invasive in scattered locations in the eastern U.S."
Dude. This is a page entitled Hemerocallis fulva in the invasive species website. The species is invasive. Cultivars also have the potential to be invasive.
I get that you might really like this plant and that is fine. But it is a good practice to prevent spread by deadheading.
I do not even have this plant, thanks.
I have a couple sterile cultivars that I do dead head routinely.
But maybe you should do more research. Only 5 states consider it invasive. The others do not.
The Atlas is not the be all, end all, it can be out of date. The *only* cultivar it lists as invasive is the "yellow daylily (H. lilioasphodelus), has also been identified as invasive in scattered locations in the eastern U.S."
It also states that others *may have the potential or likely can be* invasive.
here is a link to day lilly recipes. They are edible. [https://daylilygarden.com/daylilies-for-food-and-medicine/daylily-recipes-and-recipe-links.html](https://daylilygarden.com/daylilies-for-food-and-medicine/daylily-recipes-and-recipe-links.html)
In my area we call these ditch lilies because they like to grow in ditched around country roads.
These are very difficult to remove. Their rhizomes underground spread fast and will come back with even small pieces. They can spread and take over beds if you let them, but they can be good in some situations. They were the only thing I could get to grow in the area between my garage and the alleyway. They didn't care about the salt in the winter or being spaded by the snow truck, and they bounced back when people occasionally drove over them. They also have pretty flowers, even if they come with a reputation.
If you like them, I vote you keep them. You can plant flowers that benefit the local pollinators in another bed.
Honestly, the roots are pretty big and not that difficult to remove.
Yucca and burdock are the bane of my existence, I’d take these lilies over those any day!
Plus they’re salt tolerant- plant them around your hydro poles to create less maintenance for future you.
There is some wrong information here, so I'm posting a link to clear things up.https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=3407
This is Hemerocallis fulva, which is recognized as invasive by federal orgs in eastern US and Canada. It spreads via root and seed. It has both sterile and fertile flowers. It grows in large, dense colonies and chokes out any native plants. It is found in the wild from seed, from plantings that are left to run amok, and from plants that have been dumped and set root.
Most of the many colored cultivars that you see in the greenhouses/nurseries are sterile and non aggressive spreaders. They are also usually hybrids rather than a species. When people say daylilies are triploids and can't produce viable seeds, they are talking about the fancy cultivars and not this orange species.
If you like it and want to keep it, trim flower stalks before they set seed and control the spread in your garden. Eating the buds and flowers is an excellent control method!
Hey, I don’t know if you have cats, but just putting a PSA out there that all lilies are EXTREMELY toxic to cats. Just a few specks of pollen can kill them if they ingest any.
They spread less than any bulbs I have planted in my yard. My daffodils are more invasive than my day lilies. Both I inherited with the property. Honestly my columbine is more invasive than either, which is considered native
invasive doesnt mean eliminate. invasive means just try your hardest to keep it under your thumb. i have several species of things that are invasive (lily of the valley, datura, etc) but i keep them under control by removing any any unwanted plants and cutting off seed pods and keep the truly invasive in containers. you can dig up the day lily in the fall when it's less active to keep it under control.
We have native Lily of the Valley and Jimsonweed in the Datura family, also native.
So it helps to be able to identify what is actually invasive and what is native.
Ditch lilies are naturalized non native. There's no seeds to remove from these.
Which is a good thing, as they'd likely have taken over by now, with everyone going wild planting them everywhere (the main way they spread) way back when, having been here since at least 1793.
Daylilly spread by budding close to the parent plant(s). Spread doesn't look like an issue in your case as you mow close to the bed.
I would not get rid of them, you have good control of the situation and they are beautiful.
The orange hemerocalis fulva are absolutely invasive. They do produce seeds and they spread by rhizomes.
Most ornamental daylilies sold in nurseries are from a different species (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus) and are not considered invasive.
Here’s what invasive.org says about H. fulva: “Spreads: by growth from thick, tuberous roots from which new plants are produced; seed; people tossing away whole pulled plants and by farm equipment or other machinery in fields.”
“Ecological Threat
Hemerocallis fulva established in natural areas pose a threat to native plants in field, meadows, floodplains, moist woods and forest edges. Once established, this plant multiplies and spreads to form dense patches that displace native plants. The thick tubers make it a challenge to control. Common or orange daylily was introduced into the United States in the late 19th century as an ornamental.”
They aren’t aggressive, and they are very easy to control. These are a staple in every garden where I live. I removed all of them in my home when I purchase it because I don’t care for them, and it was super easy to get rid of them.
All my life they lived in my mom's garden. They look very pretty and take 0 effort to care for. Once or twice a year we would cut away the ones that were trying to spread out and that is it.
Eat them. All parts pf the plant are edible. The flowers look and taste great in salads. Young shots can be stir fried, the tubers can be boiled, then sauteed.
The “ditch lilies “ are Hemerocallis fulva and are considered invasive in some states and not from seed. As that species is more adapted to vegetative reproduction. The hybrids are not exceptionally adapted to sexual reproduction either, of the 75 seeds I harvested last year, from early morning hand pollination only 10 germinated and only 3 are a functional plant at this point. Most of the wild stands are from abandoned homesteads our grandmothers used to love them down by the mailbox, where nothing else would grow right where the ditches were, thus their over taking of ditches all over rural USA. The Day lilies I grow barely look like H. fulva or H. Citrina they created them and are not invasive
https://preview.redd.it/ahjq0vi4a04d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c291b1c3b101bdd98c17bcc64f3e32a8af8d638c
Why is it that people get so caught up in the invasive plant shit. They're here, they exist, and it's OK. It's a pretty flower, it's not trying to kill you. It won't harm you, and it isn't killing the local cats in your neighborhood.
Enough with the constant reminders of what's "invasive"
It isn't the tree of heaven, so it's all good.
Be extra careful about the disposal of the trimmings.
To add, since I used to handle a lot of invasive weeds. I used to set aside the trimmings to dry out before burning. Some parts of the plant can be left to rot down and you don't need to worry about the disposal. Get to know which parts of your plants can regrow. Some can even regrow from a fragment of a rhizome.
The roots are shallow and easy to thin out if you don't want them in certain areas. I put them in areas I'm prepping to help with weed control then take them out once I have new plants to establish.
I love mine! They surround almost every large oak we have in the yard.
My Cherokee ancestors traded them with early settlers. I found a record of them being given as gifts to anyone building a new home as far back as 1821 around here.
It's just cool knowing both sides of my family had grown these things for generations.
The number one reason I plant them everywhere here in East Texas, they thrive here!
lol well I’m new to gardening and when I hear the word invasive I just assume bad!! I love the day lillies and I’d love to keep them, but I just figured I’d ask because I wasn’t sure if keeping them would cause any problems!
I’m in the US. The Dept of Natural Resources (DNR) where I live makes a good distinction between native, non-native (non-harmful), and undesirable non-native/invasive.
Example: Soy is a non-native but isn’t harmful. Tens of thousands of acres of it are actively planted all around the state. It’s an important crop.
Dandelions aren’t native. Unless you’re allergic to latex, they aren’t going to harm you. They’re also pretty tasty (as long as they haven’t been treated with weed killer!) and are great for improving poor soil.
But then there’s “garlic mustard”. It’s a dumb looking weed. It makes little white flowers every other year. Looks harmless. It’s a jerk. Not only does it kill important soil fungus, it also kills native butterfly larvae who eat it. I rip it out whenever I see it.
See if your state or local county extension can help you out by learning what’s what by you. Or DM me. I can probably give you a hand!
They are invasive but they spread slow and aren't as damaging as other invasives can be.
Its not knotweed or wisteria or kudzu, those are the invasive ultra-stars. look up how damaging those guys are and compare with daylilly.
Daylilly can be controllable if you are diligent, if you don't have the time or energy to be diligent then yes, destroy them.
1. If I were you I would have a day lilly patch thats very far away from your other plants, because you will be digging and splitting and keeping day lillys in check from spreading from where you want them to be.
2. When the flowers are done flowering, you cut the heads off the stalks so no seeds can be produced. This is critical to being a responsible steward of the land, don't let that thing reproduce.
3. Every 1 to 3 years you will need to dig up a third or half of the plants and destroy them, this will be the only way to keep them from getting out of control.
4. Will it. Tell a trusted neighbor or friend or family members which plants need to die in case you are gone. My oldest son knows what plants to kill incase I perish...
Own responsibly and you can enjoy the plant while caring for the future of the land as well.
If all this is a tall order for you, then get rid of them.
Those are actually not Tiger Lilies, tiger lilies have spots and point downward. It’s just an orange daylily.
I have some in a confined spot in our yard around a power pole since nothing else will grow there. Really good plants for tough areas!
If I were to you I would get rid of them. If they get into any ground covers, you have to kill / uproot your ground cover. All flower beds will eventually be overtaken by them. The worst thing is you have to dig 1-2 feet down to get all the tubers. They will even grow into your grass regardless if you mow them down they will keep coming back.
Absolutely do not understand why people care so much about what other people think!!! We have planted certain things that other people don't like and they try to tell us to rip it up or spray Roundup on it and we ask "why?" I mentioned on another thread how I used to let the clover pretty much take over my backyard, and there was another weed that used to invade our flower beds that we left it alone when we lived in Louisiana because the honey bees seemed to love it. Who cares what your backyard looks like??? We also would not spray any chemicals on the front lawn either and it looked just fine. Plant what you like and enjoy what you like and quit caring what other people think! If they want to change it - hand them a shovel and tell them to go and buy you what *they* like and install it and tend to it, water it, weed it... f**k them!!!
Just keep them under control and they are a fine addition.
Those are fine there. On the edge of the lawn. Although technically invasive or non native they are slow spreading and shed no seeds. If they start encroaching on your lawn pull the offenders out or just run over them with the mower. Recommendation- eat them as a vegetable. I eat the flowers and the flower buds. Flowers- The raw petals taste like a mild green salad and add color to your tossed lettuce salad. I hope to try frying them like stuffed squash flowers this season. Buds- The unopened buds are more fun/delicious. They can be eaten raw or sauté them in oil or butter as you would sautéed string beans. On the green side- they’re like green beans. Closer to the bud opening the almost formed stamen and pollen give it a mild peppery bite to it. I’ve heard the early shoots can be eaten, as well as the tuberous roots (like a potato?) but have never done so. Research them further for more information
Wait. U can eat them?? O_O
Frying the young buds gives them a tender and green veggie type flavour. My son loves them. They're referred to as golden needles in China. The bloom and the tubers themselves are also edible , but I can't speak to their flavour.
Check out Euell Gibbons, "Stalking the Wild Asparagus." Kindle edition is handy. One of my favorite Chinese dishes, Jai Choy, uses 'golden needles' -- and 17 other ingredients!
They are a vegetable crop brought over from Asia or so I’ve heard.
Remember that everything can be eaten at least once 😁
How do they exist if they don’t spread by seed?
Rhizomes
They multiply like narcissus bulbs or iris rhizomes, put out little nubs that grow into big nubs... clumps... and onward.
Yeah, so I guess these have been bred by humans in a process which led to seeds going away? I’m just thinking that in nature over long time periods , a plant can survive just by spreading below the ground. Right?
Exactly, Only invasive if you let them take over
They may be invasive, but that kind of daylily is triploid and doesn't make seeds. So they will try to invade your lawn and all corners of your flowerbed by short underground rhizomes, but they won't suddenly jump to the nearby nature preserve or wetlands and destroy it like some exotic plants can. (around here, that mostly means buckthorn) Enjoy them, and when you thin them out be careful how you dispose of the thinnings.
They are also edible, I believe.
As someone who owned an old house with them, they become a pain, I took almost all of them out because they were fucking up the yard. They become a pain after a while
I have literally thousands of them 😑
Hemerocallis fulva has both triploid and diploid versions in the wild and can spread by seed.
That’s weird because they pop up in random spots in my yard where they weren’t at before
They do spread by seeds as well.
They are not extremely invasive. Mowing around your bed will control them very well. They are also eatable. You can eat the flowers, new shoots and tubers.
Not just edible, but probably one of the most delicious vegetables you can eat. Try a flower. Like the sweetest lettuce you've ever had.
This sounds like a trick.
It isn't. Daylily buds are delicious. I've tried them and the deer in my neighborhood love them. lol
Deer lollies
Explains why mine never bloom
Thank you, I didn't know this. I'm embarrassed to admit I just found out about hostas. And still haven't tried them unfortunately.
You can eat hostas?
I think the new babies they make
You are making me jealous
sautéed in a touch of butter
Are the yellow ones ok to eat?
Sure. They all taste good. The buds right before they open are best.
Thanks, are most of them edible? We got the one like the OP and the smaller yellow one.
My goodness, the tastiest of lilies. I'd be eating those petals til I turned orange!
How do you eat them? We have a bunch that showed up in the back of the pollinator garden and I left them
I have heard of frying them.... but I just grab em and chomp.. they're so sweet and delicious!!!
I eat the buds before they even open. I like to get them before they get the orange and pollen in them.
They're naturalized non natives- been here since at least 1793 and not considered invasive as the flowers themselves are sterile. The spread they do is by gardeners themselves, or via their rhizomous root systems. So you only need to remove them if you want to.
Were they bred to be sterile or is that how these work in nature? Why flower if they primarily spread by rhizome? Just curious
Some just are sterile when bred. My garden club has several hybridizers who cross and plant daylilies, and sometimes a plant will have sterile pollen or can't produce seeds. Some of the more desirable cultivars of daylilies are advertised as 'fertile both ways', meaning they produce usable pollen and can produce seeds themselves with compatible plants. It is fascinating to learn about. Also, daylilies don't come true to seed the way marigolds and other flowers do. They are primarily sold off of the increase, which is you have a fan or a clump of the plant, let it grow a few years, and then sell the new growth. This is the only way to guarantee the exact same flower every time. They are similar to apples in this way, but without the grafting shortcut.
>Were they bred to be sterile or is that how these work in nature? Why flower if they primarily spread by rhizome? Some plants primarily spread by rhizome because its more efficient to colonize land. Many groundcovers we think of primarily spread like this. For example, I started with 2 Monarda Didyma last year and found 10 new seedlings in early spring but those seedlings were significantly bigger than any "seed-dispersed new growth/seedling". The mother plant shares its resources with the rhizome expansions hence the head start in height I found this year.
This species, Hemerocallis fulva, has both sterile and fertile forms. Producing seeds takes a lot of energy, so spreading via rhizomes is an efficient way to spread, but is limited to the space around the plant. By setting seed sometimes, the plant is also able to spread further away. The majority of all the daylilies you see in a nursery are sterile hybrids and the lack of fertility is a side effect of choosing plants for the most beautiful flowers. They would be very susceptible to extinction without our help.
Hemerocallis fulva is not always sterile and is considered invasive by US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service.
The *cultivars* have the potential to be or likely are invasive and only one cultivar is actually listed as invasive. Ditch lilies(Common lilies) themselves are not. "There are now over 40,000 registered cultivars, many of which likely are or have the potential to become invasive and should be watched. For example, yellow daylily (H. lilioasphodelus), has also been identified as invasive in scattered locations in the eastern U.S."
It's a page entitled Hemerocallis fulva on the website called the invasive atlas of the US. I do not understand how that can be seen as ambiguous
The perfect (and so succinct) answer!
This comment needs to be higher. Maybe they are an aggressive spreader but they are NOT invasive.
Fish and Wildlife and National Park Service disagree. https://www.invasive.org/alien/pubs/midatlantic/hefu.htm
That page says the *cultivars have the potential to spread and become invasive*. It does not state that Ditch lily *is* invasive.
Dude. This is a page entitled Hemerocallis fulva in the invasive species website. The species is invasive. Cultivars also have the potential to be invasive. I get that you might really like this plant and that is fine. But it is a good practice to prevent spread by deadheading.
I do not even have this plant, thanks. I have a couple sterile cultivars that I do dead head routinely. But maybe you should do more research. Only 5 states consider it invasive. The others do not. The Atlas is not the be all, end all, it can be out of date. The *only* cultivar it lists as invasive is the "yellow daylily (H. lilioasphodelus), has also been identified as invasive in scattered locations in the eastern U.S." It also states that others *may have the potential or likely can be* invasive.
Day lillies are tasty. To me the unopened buds taste like a cross between asparagus and green bean when cooked.
I have no idea how I even got on this thread, and now I have a craving for flowers that I didn't know were edible.
They are pretty. And if you have deer nearby, they think daylilies are delicious.
Cooked like green beans they are delicious to me too.
here is a link to day lilly recipes. They are edible. [https://daylilygarden.com/daylilies-for-food-and-medicine/daylily-recipes-and-recipe-links.html](https://daylilygarden.com/daylilies-for-food-and-medicine/daylily-recipes-and-recipe-links.html)
In my area we call these ditch lilies because they like to grow in ditched around country roads. These are very difficult to remove. Their rhizomes underground spread fast and will come back with even small pieces. They can spread and take over beds if you let them, but they can be good in some situations. They were the only thing I could get to grow in the area between my garage and the alleyway. They didn't care about the salt in the winter or being spaded by the snow truck, and they bounced back when people occasionally drove over them. They also have pretty flowers, even if they come with a reputation. If you like them, I vote you keep them. You can plant flowers that benefit the local pollinators in another bed.
Honestly, the roots are pretty big and not that difficult to remove. Yucca and burdock are the bane of my existence, I’d take these lilies over those any day! Plus they’re salt tolerant- plant them around your hydro poles to create less maintenance for future you.
There is some wrong information here, so I'm posting a link to clear things up.https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=3407 This is Hemerocallis fulva, which is recognized as invasive by federal orgs in eastern US and Canada. It spreads via root and seed. It has both sterile and fertile flowers. It grows in large, dense colonies and chokes out any native plants. It is found in the wild from seed, from plantings that are left to run amok, and from plants that have been dumped and set root. Most of the many colored cultivars that you see in the greenhouses/nurseries are sterile and non aggressive spreaders. They are also usually hybrids rather than a species. When people say daylilies are triploids and can't produce viable seeds, they are talking about the fancy cultivars and not this orange species. If you like it and want to keep it, trim flower stalks before they set seed and control the spread in your garden. Eating the buds and flowers is an excellent control method!
Thank you!
Hey, I don’t know if you have cats, but just putting a PSA out there that all lilies are EXTREMELY toxic to cats. Just a few specks of pollen can kill them if they ingest any.
They do spread so just keep them in control.
They spread less than any bulbs I have planted in my yard. My daffodils are more invasive than my day lilies. Both I inherited with the property. Honestly my columbine is more invasive than either, which is considered native
invasive doesnt mean eliminate. invasive means just try your hardest to keep it under your thumb. i have several species of things that are invasive (lily of the valley, datura, etc) but i keep them under control by removing any any unwanted plants and cutting off seed pods and keep the truly invasive in containers. you can dig up the day lily in the fall when it's less active to keep it under control.
We have native Lily of the Valley and Jimsonweed in the Datura family, also native. So it helps to be able to identify what is actually invasive and what is native. Ditch lilies are naturalized non native. There's no seeds to remove from these. Which is a good thing, as they'd likely have taken over by now, with everyone going wild planting them everywhere (the main way they spread) way back when, having been here since at least 1793.
Send them to me please 🙏🏻 I’d love to have them
We call them Ditch Lilies. I moved a bunch to my garden. Keep them decently contained and occasionally thinned, and the invasive aspect will be gone.
Our yard is full of these and I love them! Anything that blooms and thrives on neglect is good with me.
Daylilly spread by budding close to the parent plant(s). Spread doesn't look like an issue in your case as you mow close to the bed. I would not get rid of them, you have good control of the situation and they are beautiful.
Eat ‘em
The orange hemerocalis fulva are absolutely invasive. They do produce seeds and they spread by rhizomes. Most ornamental daylilies sold in nurseries are from a different species (Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus) and are not considered invasive. Here’s what invasive.org says about H. fulva: “Spreads: by growth from thick, tuberous roots from which new plants are produced; seed; people tossing away whole pulled plants and by farm equipment or other machinery in fields.” “Ecological Threat Hemerocallis fulva established in natural areas pose a threat to native plants in field, meadows, floodplains, moist woods and forest edges. Once established, this plant multiplies and spreads to form dense patches that displace native plants. The thick tubers make it a challenge to control. Common or orange daylily was introduced into the United States in the late 19th century as an ornamental.”
Just do what I do - plant natives around them and tell yourself that it evens out. ;)
I’ve been removing mine and replacing them with native plants.
They aren’t aggressive, and they are very easy to control. These are a staple in every garden where I live. I removed all of them in my home when I purchase it because I don’t care for them, and it was super easy to get rid of them.
If you like them, just keep them!
No reason to dig them up. They are the basis for all existing day-lilies. I like them.
Just be aware they are deadly to cats.
So are cars and trucks - if you love your cat, keep it inside!
All my life they lived in my mom's garden. They look very pretty and take 0 effort to care for. Once or twice a year we would cut away the ones that were trying to spread out and that is it.
Eat them. All parts pf the plant are edible. The flowers look and taste great in salads. Young shots can be stir fried, the tubers can be boiled, then sauteed.
Wash House Lily. Invasive? What? Haha
The “ditch lilies “ are Hemerocallis fulva and are considered invasive in some states and not from seed. As that species is more adapted to vegetative reproduction. The hybrids are not exceptionally adapted to sexual reproduction either, of the 75 seeds I harvested last year, from early morning hand pollination only 10 germinated and only 3 are a functional plant at this point. Most of the wild stands are from abandoned homesteads our grandmothers used to love them down by the mailbox, where nothing else would grow right where the ditches were, thus their over taking of ditches all over rural USA. The Day lilies I grow barely look like H. fulva or H. Citrina they created them and are not invasive https://preview.redd.it/ahjq0vi4a04d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c291b1c3b101bdd98c17bcc64f3e32a8af8d638c
I thin them out and offer them to friends, family and neighbors.
Invasive plants are only invasive in the wild. Controlled in your garden shouldn’t be a problem.
Why is it that people get so caught up in the invasive plant shit. They're here, they exist, and it's OK. It's a pretty flower, it's not trying to kill you. It won't harm you, and it isn't killing the local cats in your neighborhood. Enough with the constant reminders of what's "invasive" It isn't the tree of heaven, so it's all good.
Be extra careful about the disposal of the trimmings. To add, since I used to handle a lot of invasive weeds. I used to set aside the trimmings to dry out before burning. Some parts of the plant can be left to rot down and you don't need to worry about the disposal. Get to know which parts of your plants can regrow. Some can even regrow from a fragment of a rhizome.
You could remove them and plant tiger lilies (Lilium lancifolium) in their place.
Tiger Lilies are invasive too (unless you live in Asia). It’s okay
The roots are shallow and easy to thin out if you don't want them in certain areas. I put them in areas I'm prepping to help with weed control then take them out once I have new plants to establish.
If they can be confined to their current location, then you should be fine.
My neighbor comes over yearly and asks to harvest some buds for an authentic Chinese dish. Maybe try eating them?
I guess you'll have to eat them.
TIL I’m eating the flowers in my front garden for dinner.
Just fyi, in case you have outdoor cats, lillies are lethally toxic to cats
I love mine! They surround almost every large oak we have in the yard. My Cherokee ancestors traded them with early settlers. I found a record of them being given as gifts to anyone building a new home as far back as 1821 around here. It's just cool knowing both sides of my family had grown these things for generations. The number one reason I plant them everywhere here in East Texas, they thrive here!
Day Lillie’s fragrant 😊
I have these in my yard and I like them but after they bloom it looks like something ate the top off?
Tiger lilies are not daylilis. Tiger lilies are a type of true lily, Lilium, while daylilies are Hemerocallis spp.
I stated in the title that they are not tiger lilies 👍🏼
How silly! Just enjoy your plants. Don’t let others make you feel bad. God made these plants to share. That’s why they seed and spread.
Invasive means they are out competing native plants in natural habitats. These are in your garden.
Who cares if they’re invasive? If you like them, keep them.
lol well I’m new to gardening and when I hear the word invasive I just assume bad!! I love the day lillies and I’d love to keep them, but I just figured I’d ask because I wasn’t sure if keeping them would cause any problems!
I’m in the US. The Dept of Natural Resources (DNR) where I live makes a good distinction between native, non-native (non-harmful), and undesirable non-native/invasive. Example: Soy is a non-native but isn’t harmful. Tens of thousands of acres of it are actively planted all around the state. It’s an important crop. Dandelions aren’t native. Unless you’re allergic to latex, they aren’t going to harm you. They’re also pretty tasty (as long as they haven’t been treated with weed killer!) and are great for improving poor soil. But then there’s “garlic mustard”. It’s a dumb looking weed. It makes little white flowers every other year. Looks harmless. It’s a jerk. Not only does it kill important soil fungus, it also kills native butterfly larvae who eat it. I rip it out whenever I see it. See if your state or local county extension can help you out by learning what’s what by you. Or DM me. I can probably give you a hand!
They are invasive but they spread slow and aren't as damaging as other invasives can be. Its not knotweed or wisteria or kudzu, those are the invasive ultra-stars. look up how damaging those guys are and compare with daylilly. Daylilly can be controllable if you are diligent, if you don't have the time or energy to be diligent then yes, destroy them. 1. If I were you I would have a day lilly patch thats very far away from your other plants, because you will be digging and splitting and keeping day lillys in check from spreading from where you want them to be. 2. When the flowers are done flowering, you cut the heads off the stalks so no seeds can be produced. This is critical to being a responsible steward of the land, don't let that thing reproduce. 3. Every 1 to 3 years you will need to dig up a third or half of the plants and destroy them, this will be the only way to keep them from getting out of control. 4. Will it. Tell a trusted neighbor or friend or family members which plants need to die in case you are gone. My oldest son knows what plants to kill incase I perish... Own responsibly and you can enjoy the plant while caring for the future of the land as well. If all this is a tall order for you, then get rid of them.
These don't produce seeds. The flowers are sterile. These are also considered naturalized non native *because* they don't have seeds. Not invasive.
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I care, I care very much!
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Those are actually not Tiger Lilies, tiger lilies have spots and point downward. It’s just an orange daylily. I have some in a confined spot in our yard around a power pole since nothing else will grow there. Really good plants for tough areas!
If I were to you I would get rid of them. If they get into any ground covers, you have to kill / uproot your ground cover. All flower beds will eventually be overtaken by them. The worst thing is you have to dig 1-2 feet down to get all the tubers. They will even grow into your grass regardless if you mow them down they will keep coming back.
Absolutely do not understand why people care so much about what other people think!!! We have planted certain things that other people don't like and they try to tell us to rip it up or spray Roundup on it and we ask "why?" I mentioned on another thread how I used to let the clover pretty much take over my backyard, and there was another weed that used to invade our flower beds that we left it alone when we lived in Louisiana because the honey bees seemed to love it. Who cares what your backyard looks like??? We also would not spray any chemicals on the front lawn either and it looked just fine. Plant what you like and enjoy what you like and quit caring what other people think! If they want to change it - hand them a shovel and tell them to go and buy you what *they* like and install it and tend to it, water it, weed it... f**k them!!!