Unpacking Your Daylilies

• Open the box as soon as possible to give your daylilies some air.

• Plant your new daylilies as soon as you can!

• Your daylilies can wait a few days, or longer if necessary, to be planted. But the sooner the better!

• Keep the opened box somewhere cool, shaded, and dry until you're able to plant them. Don't leave them sitting in the sun!

How to Plant Your Daylilies

1) Don't divide your daylilies! The large plants we send are healthier and more likely to bloom their first season if you plant them like they are, rather than splitting them into smaller plants.

2) Plant them somewhere sunny! (or at least partly sunny)

3) Any decent garden soil should be fine. If your soil is particularly sandy or heavy, you may want to amend with compost.

4) Dig a hole larger than the root mass and deep enough so the crown of the plant (where the roots meet the leaves) is about an inch below the surface. You see that band of white at the base of the foliage? That's the depth it was planted when it was growing in our fields.

5) Cover the roots with soil and water them well. Keep them well-watered for at least the first few weeks after planting.

Keep your daylilies well-watered. Daylilies are drought-tolerant, but giving them plenty of water is the most important thing you can do for best performance.

Fertilizing Daylilies

1) When to Fertilize - We recommend fertilizing in the spring, when the danger of freezing temperatures has passed. Some gardeners will also fertilize in the fall.

2) What Kind of Fertilizer - Daylilies aren't picky. We recommend using a general balanced fertilizer. But they do like nitrogen, so you may want to supplement with additional nitrogen.

3) How to Fertilize - Just sprinkle granular fertilizer around the plants, or soak the plant and surrounding area if you're using liquid fertilizer.

4) Can You Over-Fertilize? - Yes, but it's kind of unusual. If you over-fertilize daylilies you may get lots of outstanding foliage, but few blooms. (This is kind of extreme, but we occasionally hear from a few folks that have done this.)

Mulching Daylilies

Mulch is great! It helps hold moisture in the soil and also helps keep weeds from thriving. Daylilies aren't particular about a specific type of mulch, so any common mulch material should work!

Dividing Daylilies

Daylilies don't need to be divided every year. Most varieties can go 3-5 years (or longer) without needing to be divided.

1) How will you know when to divide them? If you noticed your daylilies aren't blooming as well as they used to bloom, they may need to be divided.

2) How to divide daylilies? Dividing daylilies is simple. Just dig up the plants and pull them apart. If they're difficult to pull apart, use a knife to pry or cut them apart. You'll usually want to transplant a daylily clump with at least three fans (like the size we send) because smaller plants will take longer to bloom.