Dakota Gardener: What makes daylilies special?

Daylilies are easy to breed and hybridize for variation in appearance. (Photo courtesy of Lona Arthur)

Daylilies are easy to breed and hybridize for variation in appearance. (Photo courtesy of Lona Arthur)

Do you want to hear a deep, dark secret? I wasn’t always a fan of daylilies. This confession is sheer heresy because I now oversee one of the largest public collections of daylilies in the United States. North Dakota State University is home to the American Daylily Society Historic Daylily Collection and has approximately 2,000 cultivars.In my former ignorance, I used to think daylilie...

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