{"id":2267,"date":"2011-06-26T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2011-11-15T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:59:09","slug":"daylilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/daylilies\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylilies in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2270\" title=\"daylily2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/daylily2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Daylilies are in full, blooming glory along our Pennsylvania roadsides now. I always assumed, because of their location, that these were the native variety. I was wrong (not for the first time, mind you).<\/p>\n<p>According to daylilies.org (hey, where else was I going to look for answers?) daylilies that dot roadsides \u201cescaped\u201d at some point&#8211;that is, they are a hybridized version of the wild\/native and the domesticated varieties which have been around since the 30s.<\/p>\n<p>Underground bulbs of the wild lily reproduced vegetatively or were dispersed by hungry rodents. Native Americans also ate the bulbs, boiled; Cree referred to the species as \u201cmouse-root\u201d because of its association with voles. (Mind you, the lily family contains species not safe to consume).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2269 alignleft\" title=\"daylily1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/daylily1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Hemerocallis is the genus name meaning \u201cbeauty\u201d and\u00a0 \u201cday\u201d, hence the name \u201cdaylily\u201d (each flower lasts only one day). However, I&#8217;ve learned through my online research that each daylily clump can produce 200-400 flowers in a season. Multiply that by the hundreds of clumps in any roadside stand of daylilies and you&#8217;re in for a spectacular show lasting throughout the better part of the summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylilies are in full, blooming glory along our Pennsylvania roadsides now. I always assumed, because of their location, that these were the native variety. I was wrong (not for the first time, mind you). According to daylilies.org (hey, where else was I going to look for answers?) daylilies that dot roadsides \u201cescaped\u201d at some point&#8211;that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[188,35,18,62,19,60],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-daylily","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-flowers","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}