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 ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hemerocallis - or day lilies - are plants that suffer from prejudice. The first assumption, that they flower for a short time, is grounded in fact. As their common name implies, each individual bloom ...