Daylily is exactly like the name sounds, the blooms last for just one day, however a mature plant can produce many flower spikes with many flower heads, so it provides a good few weeks of flowers in the summer.

Plant out in May/June, although your Daylily may not flower the first season, unless it is a mature plant, will need very little care until the end of the season. Large mature plants do need to be divided every few years. Best done March/April, dig up the whole plant a cut apart, each section of growth is known as a fan. When splitting try to keep a minimum of 3 fans per piece cut. The easiest way to do it is with a saw, the roots tie into each other quite a lot and are extreml;y hard to separate. I know this sounds a little over the top, but the plant will be okay and grow more roots quickly once replanted in to the garden.

The dead flowers can be removed when they have finished flowering, they will just pull off the stem once ready to be removed. Once the plant has finished flowering allow it to die back naturally, the foliage will turn yellow, then the leaves can be pulled away from the plant, it will then be dormant until the next spring. The new shoots can be a target for slugs and snails