How to Use daylily in a Sentence

daylily

noun

• Blame the wet spring for the bad outbreak of daylily rust this year as well.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 4 May 2019
• If the daylily is not your flower, how about the hydrangea?
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
• All parts of the daylily plant are edible, so don't waste the ones that break off in the process.
  — Philly.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Also, a few of my daylilies are showing rust spots on the foliage.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 4 May 2019
• The daylilies are hardy plants that have overwintered in a club garden in Wisconsin.
  — Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• In stark contrast, all is quiet over the daisies, daylilies, and hostas (except for the deer, which like nothing better than to chew hostas down to the ground at night).
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 25 July 2023
• So my father-in-law has promised me some of his daylilies, and a dear neighbor is teaching me how to propagate hydrangeas.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Some of these flowering plants include bee balms, columbine flowers, daylilies, lupines and petunias.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2023
• Our daylilies – hundreds of plants, dozens of varieties – won’t get a chance to bloom this year, thanks to deer that seem to know exactly when to ravage our yard each summer.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
• Only an act of God could do something as dramatic as changing a daylily into an iris.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 29 May 2021
• Hosta, grasses and daylily can produce six or more, while hollyhock and coral bells may only yield three.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2020
• Get into the spring spirit at this wonderful outdoor event amid 14 acres of daylilies and demonstration gardens in the heart of Amador wine country.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 23 Mar. 2018
• Each of the flowers lives only for a day or two, like a daylily, but the plants will keep opening new blooms over a long period, sometimes from July to September.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
• In full shade, please plant: lily-of-the-valley, ferns, wild tawny orange daylilies (but not the colorful hybrids), annual impatien, and, best of all, hosta.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 21 Aug. 2019
• Like the one for Eula King of Ohio which notes her gardening prowess of growing hostas, daylilies and other plants King hoped friends would come and transplant into their own gardens.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
• The original daylilies were orange or yellow, but in my lifetime fabulous whites, pinks, reds and, yes, purples have come into the market.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 20 Apr. 2018
• The daylily in all its rich variety was once the perennial to plant for its seemingly endless supply of showy blooms in the gathering heat of early summer.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Among the edibles discussed was the ubiquitous orange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva), which can be spotted this time of year along roads all over the state.
  — Melanie Savage, Courant Community, 18 July 2017
• Hostas and daylilies are great container gardening plants, but many other perennials work as well.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 13 Aug. 2018
• Deadhead spring- and summer-blooming perennials like daylilies and sages after their flowers fade.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
• So roses, delphiniums, chrysanthemums, daylilies, hydrangeas and tall phlox would also like that mulch of compost that the vegetables get.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• One low-maintenance strategy is to plant a variety of the same species in an area – for example, daylilies – that bloom at different times of the year for consistent color.
  — Uyeta Landscape and Maintenance, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
• Divide crowded clumps of summer-flowering perennials such as aster and daylily.
  — Thad Orr, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Deer definitely have favorite foods, such as arborvitae, hostas, daylilies, and azaleas.
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 24 Mar. 2023
• Find everything from common impatiens to rare daylilies to tree seedlings with a special history at Ohio State University.
  — cleveland.com, 12 May 2017
• Hosta and daylilies are hearty perennial options for simple landscaping.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 May 2023
• Given those considerations, go ahead and cut back lilies, daylilies, garden phlox, iris, geranium, monarda, daisies, coreopsis and any other plants that look bad.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
• For example, daylilies are perennials, and petunias are annuals.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 2 Aug. 2023
• Be sure to dispose of these invasive daylilies to prevent introducing them into other gardens and natural spaces.
  — Melinda Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
• Chickweed, dandelion and dock provide delicious, nutrient-rich greens, while daylilies, lilacs, honeysuckle and roses can add floral overtones to syrups, jellies and baked goods.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024