WARREN TWP. – One day there's nothing there, the next, as if by magic, a sea of orange offset against a bright green background fills your line of vision. It's a sure sign that summer is upon us — the ...

I have a penchant for advocating lost causes: Miles Davis’s electric period, Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, horseradish Havarti cheese. But none more disdained than ditch lilies. These are the orange ...

The masses of orange blooms you see along the roadside are day lilies. Nicknames include outhouse day lily, roadside, railroad, ditch, washhouse, mailbox, tiger, tawny or most commonly, the orange day ...

“I have been trying to get rid of some orange-colored daylilies and plant some new daylilies with different colors along with some other perennials. The orange daylilies keep returning and have even ...

Those tawny orange day lilies you see along so many country and suburban roads are fading this month, their flower-bearing stems turning into brown sticks. Day lily flowers fade every day; they’re ...

Every summer, I make an evolving version of dirty rice. In our house this one-dish wonder with roots in Southern Creole cooking, always features a flavorful staple of my feral kitchen: dried daylilies ...

While I always knew daylilies were edible, I had no idea they were that good! I gathered some on our trip to New England last week and, after sampling the flowers, flower buds, young stalks, and root ...

Plant historian Alice M Coats records that Hemerocallis flava and H. fulva have been cultivated in this country since the 16th century, but the tawny orange H. fulva appears in Chinese paintings ...

At this time in July there are so many plants to look at that it can be overwhelming. But the ones just about everyone sees and recognizes are the wild orange daylilies (Hemerocallis fulva). Also ...

Mid-July typically is when flower gardens hit their stride. Perennials are in bud or blossom, and annuals continue to thrive. It’s a kaleidoscope of color to be sure, assuming fungal disease and ...