I also wanted to mention that although I don't have any seeds at this time. If someone would guide me through the process to be able to make seeds from the plants I would absolutly be honored to pass them on to someone else
Thanks again for considering this
Edith

Hi Edith,

Growing daylilies from seed takes alot of time and a fair amount of work. It would probably take you two years to see bloom and another year to see if the bloom is going to be any good. I am farther north so it takes even longer. This is my third year and I may get half of my seedlings to bloom. If you want to give it a try you can send me an email in the fall and I can send you some seeds with good parents.

Edward
Timberlea, Nova Scotia
edkimball@yahoo.com

I don't know if you'd be interested or not but the clump of Stella D'Oro lilies are putting up seed pods already and I don't have anywhere (or any time right now) to take advantage of them... but you can have them if you want. I inherited this plant when we moved in... and I didn't pollinate them... Mother Nature did it all on her own so who knows what they will result in. There are no other daylilies on my property but my next-door neighbor has a few of them. Surprise??

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Mystic.

Daylilies are not going to grow in gravel and clay. I am retired and on a fixed income, too, but I am not asking for freebies on the same day that I joined Garden Web. Welcome to retirment. What have you been doing for the past 40 years? Can you post some picturea of the two gravel and clay beds that you have been digging in everyday?

I think many people here would love free seeds. I would choose a different perennial to ask for seeds from because you won't see a bloom for years from daylily seeds. Maybe go to the perennial forum and ask what seeds will produce a plant that blooms the following year. Then you can go to Walmart and buy a seed packet for $2.

Pooh on grouchy replies! I think daylilies make a wonderful retirement hobby. The stunning prices are for newer tetraploids, but there are MANY lovely diploids that are quite reasonable. I find them easier to hybridize, too. It's fun!

Sometimes, a local club has sales to benefit their activities. I once barely made it before the tables were taken up, and the people were a delight. They'd dug and potted these plants, and nobody seemed thrilled to be packing them back home again. I got some sweet little plants for $3 dollars a pot.

A local club can be a tremendous resource, if you can get out to meetings or sales. I promise you, there will be someone there who needs an ear to talk all about daylilies, and most of the people there will have such a daylily excess that "free to a good home" opportunities will come up.

You do need to work on that soil, though. That's a hobby in itself! I went to Starbucks just today and got the used expresso grounds they keep in a can by the door. They're free, and quite attractive to worms and happy soil.

Visit the Soil, Mulch, and Compost forum here, and you may find more kindred (read: exceedingly cheap) spirits. Don't get discouraged!

Thanks to all who replied and forgive me if I offended anyone as that was not my intention. Edward Kimball and mystic dragon I will send you an e-mail. Petalpatsy thanks for the additional information, i will certainly visit those area's.
The beds in front of the house has in past years had shrubs growing in them until the drought has killed them in one of the beds and severly damaged the other two.
So it's time for a change.
Edith