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 ...

Question: This is a photo of our daylily. The flowers are beautiful, but the leaves are striped with brown. Do you know what’s wrong with it and what we can do to keep it from happening in the future?

Dear Carol: I have been successful with daylilies except for one problem. They keep getting a disease that turns the leaves streaky yellow and they eventually die. It appears they may be getting ...

I always thought they were invincible. Rarely do I receive challenging questions about them. Probably one of the easiest flowers to grow, they encounter few pest problems. All that might be changing.

Daylilies with thousands of cultivars in a rainbow of colors have been called the perfect perennial because of their adaptability to a wide variety of growing conditions. Nevertheless, they are not ...

Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County’s Parker F. Scripture Botanical Gardens daylilies have been blooming since early July. The blooms have been colorful and plentiful, such a welcoming site. A ...

Although not a true lily, the day lily is a member of the lily family. Its botanical name, Hemerocallis, is derived from two Greek words meaning "day" and "beauty" and refers to the fact that day lily ...

Daylilies are the mainstays of so many gardens. They come in fabulous colors, shapes and all sizes, from giant 4-footers down to miniscule 10-inch dwarfs. Daylilies (Hemerocallis) originated in the ...