The Gardens on Spring Creek

Daylily Display at the Gardens on Spring Creek What's Blooming in June:  Daylilies by Jonathan Poulton and Missy Schoenbaum, Northern Colorado Daylily Club  If you were to ask members of the Northern Colorado Daylily Club (NCDC) what might be a perfect perennial for our part of the Centennial State, their unequivocal and enthusiastic answer would be daylilies (Hemerocallis species)!  They would argue that these beautiful plants grow quickly, are long lived, and are easy to maintain and propagate. They thrive in most soils, do best in full sun, and are rarely troubled by disease or insect pests.   Despite what many people think, daylilies are not native to North America. Today’s daylilies are derived from 20-25 species that were originally native to the Far East (China, Mongolia, Japan, Northern India and Korea), where for millennia they were cultivated as a food source and for medicinal purposes.  During the 1500s, these plants were brought by traders to Europe and, not long afte