Daylilies are a MAJOR part of my garden, and I have thousands! The unopened buds taste like green beans, and are excellent raw or cooked (canned, too!) Flower petals are so crisp, so full of moisture, and slightly sweet, better than lettuce. Wilted flowers go into soups - I try to let a few flowers go through their full cycle on each plant, so I get food AND pretty flowers, too. The Stella D'oro tend to bear earlier, and bear for a shorter period than the old fashioned orange variety. Most of the Stellas that I have are yellow, but there are some peach-colored ones that I am trying to multiply, and another short bearing variety called 'Jamaican Sunrise', that have burgundy and yellow blooms. I wait until spring to dispose of the old flower stalks, because they make a good place for solitary bees to spend the winter. Shade is no problem at all; if they get too shaded, they won't flower, but will still produce their leaves and edible tubers. Propagation is easy easy easy - just wait until they aren't trying to make flowers, dig up a clump, and divide the bulbs. Plant a bulb every three inches, and in a couple of years, you can repeat the process. Once the flowers are done, if you let a few go all the way through their life cycle without harvesting, seed pods will appear. The seed pods are short, fat, three-lobed pods. Let them dry out, then break them open to get the seeds, which can be started in pots in the early spring - if you have multiple varieties, those seeds will produce some interesting f1 hybrids with different colors and growth habits.

This is helpful. Our cottage in NS is surrounded by tons of these and nobody knows they can be eaten. We just took their presence for granted. I am going to change that and start cooking and propagating them. Thanks

I love dayliles. My 92yr daddy and I for years went to farms to get dayliles. Had to move home to care for daddy. Selling my house and will move my dayliles.

I first saw (faded) Day Lilies packaged in a Chinese supermarket about 30 years ago. When I researched into them a bit more, I found some very misleading information about them being used for narcotic effects. So I certainly didn't want to try them at the time. It was only 5 years ago that a more trustworthy source of information said they were perfectly harmless. I have been growing and eating the flowers since. (Not only do I eat the buds and open flowers raw, I chop the buds like scallions for stir fries and save the dried ones for 'last minute additions' to pasta, couscous, quinoa and rice dishes. No narcotic affects whatsoever). The Day Lily I bought 5 years ago is a double flowered hybrid, and that's very slow to propagate. Its wider strap-like leaves come under a little attack from slugs and snails in the early Spring. But I keep this double version potted (which seems to be enough protection) and the double flowers are absolutely gorgeous. Because the above one is such a slow spreader, I've since bought a dark mahogany flowered variety with finer leaves, which is already dividing itself at a manic pace (this will be the one that will be propagated industriously and go into the permaculture side of my garden). I do know that it is a good idea to divide Day Lilies now and again to maintain plant strength. I've seen old borders of unmaintained Day Lilies die off in the centre, weaken and be taken over by stronger plants, so do divide them every few years.

I started with about 2-3. They established well and I had 24. Then they reproduced again! And again! It's like having zucchini - the neighbors hide if they see me dividing the lilies and trying to give them away☺

So I have these in my front yard. MIND BLOWN! I tried the stage of Day 2, it was soooo good!

Nice to see a video on daylilies.We use them in salads all the time. Choped buds or cut petals. There is some early varieties too. We will try to cook them next time!

I couldn't wait for mine to bloom! First one today. So good.

I love your editing! I noticed the little "pop" when you picked the lily and I thought that was such a nice little touch!

C'est super de voir quelq'un aussi excité à propos de cette petite fleur! 😆 Cette année j'aurai mon propre jardin pour la première fois et j'ai tellement hâte de grignoter des daylilies en arrosant ma laitue haha

Super, thanks! I have loads of these and didn't realise they were a valuable addition to a sustainable garden. I have some to move in Autumn, now I know where I'm going to put them...plus they really fill out!

Day lilies are THE strongest heartiest plants I know of. Mine start to break the surface of the ground in March!! They get covered in snow & they just keep on coming. Nothing stops them. Plus, they multiply like a weed (albeit a gorgeous weed, mind you.😏) If you're ever offered a bunch, take them. You will _not_ be disappointed, year after year.😉 Hugs from Atlantic Canada.🤗🇨🇦

Started with one plant & now I have a huge patch in the garden as well as some in pots. And the hummers love them❣️❤

Thank you for all this great information!

Nice inspiring video, its amazing how many hidden food sources we have due to being raised into a only culitvars are food mindset.

Awesome video Stefan!!!!

I wanted to say I love your videos, your vouce ia so sweet and I have discovered so many useful ideas and information from you, thank you for all you have taught me, I am looking forward to watching more videos

The deer in the area agree 100% with you. I had two patches in my yard which I never saw bloom. Once in stage two the deer top them.

huh, I'v been eating and cooking the orange day lilies for years, but I didn't know about the Stellas! It's on the menu for tonights dinner. Thank you!

Thanks Stefan!! I have so many daylilies and I started out only 5 plants 😁

Always ate buds, never flower cant wait to try, thanks

You're great I like your commentary..

Thank you!

I have never tried them, but I sure will try them now!

The roots are really GOURMET! Thats the only thing I tried so far because it’s winter now 😀 Tryed them raw, they are perfect!

Never been a fan of the boring daylily but you've peaked my interest!

Thank you sir for another great informative fun video 🤠

Yes, we prefer the dry flowers because of its texture in soup.

Yes! We have them, eat them in our salads, and plan to buy more this fall. Never cooked them though. I love day lilies. When i was a girl my parents had what we called "tiger lilies" in the back yard. I was able to dig up a mess of them before we sold the old place after my father's death. They're ready to divide this year, and I'm going to transplant them into our little orchard (per one of your earlier videos), by our rain garden, and down by the chicken yard. We were fortunate that the seller of our house planted a bunch of Stella D'oro in front of the house. Added bonus, the deer don't like them! (Deer ate *all* of our hostas, our black-eyed Susans, browse our apple trees and cherry trees...)

Thank you🤩👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The flowers are food for the soul. Might try the ones who are past bloom though!

I have a lot of buckwheat planted. I added mustard and was happy w/ the yellow, but now it made pods so I'm back to square one:-) I sowed some red cornflower seeds. I hope they will bloom to balance out the white of buckwheat which may be black bc it goes to seed fast.

Thank you

I use daylillies as a spring veggie. I eat the shoots as they emerge in early Spring. I also use the flower petals to make an amazingly delicious wine.

For Richard b in Phoenix X yes the day lilies will grow in Phoenix X. Especially the common ones rather than the fancies. Give them some afternoon shade or Filtered shade

I can't find that old variety. I love the color.

I tried this today!! Very tasty! I might have ate too many, lol. My kids loved them too!

I went outside as well, because I recognised the flower. Deer grazed off all the flowers. (they graze everything here: trees, currants leaves and all, potato plants, tomatoes, sunflowers, etc.)

Odd numbers are used in home decor design too!

Just like Jerusalem Artichokes and Amaranth... Stealth food we can sustain ourselves with after the zombie hoard steals our recognizable produce. LOL Would love to see a video from you on stealth foods before they start their marauding...

I don't have this flower - Need to get some this summer.

I'm going to try these. I just found out that yucca blossoms are edible and they are so good! They are like a fresher tasting potato chip.

I had no idea either, I'll plant some next year in my containers and try them or just admire their beautiful flowers!! Thank you, have a great weekend!! 😊

I have a ton of them, mostly the double wild orange from, yep the side of the road......I inherited my mom's place an she planted those an beautiful burgundy color daylily many yrs ago, it's scent is divine and I wish I knew it's name, I'm trying to hybridize those 2 this yr, been thinking about it for far too long, so I hope it works......guess now I have to go pick some for my salad, Thanks.

This is really neat! I been growing these for 20+yrs and been admiring the blooms along side of the roads LOL Never knew they were edible. Thanks 🐾☮️🦋🌻

haven't eaten them but I do grow them with the trees. :)

Thank you for this information! I did a bit of searching and found out that Day Lilies grow in hardiness zones 3-9. I am in Zone 9B, Phoenix AZ, and am wondering if anyone grows them here. I recently found your channel and am in the midst of watching all of your videos. You have provided so much valuable information. Thank you, again.

My kids have been eating the open flowers for years. They taste like sweet lettuce and they like to force their friends who are scared to eat anything straight from the wild to taste them. I've never tried any other part so I look forward to trying the buds this year.

I have them and they sprawl onto the path to the greenhouse. Needs a bit of space. As they say right plant, right place.

great stuff. we use them too. cooked a bunch and got a little stomach upset. have heard that the old time variety is fine, but more modern cultivars might cause problems. any experience with this?

The nectar is the best part. Like if you eat it like a honeysuckle.

Daylilies have been on my 'get these plants' -list for a while 😋

9.36 You should see what wild orchids do to male bees. The genus Ophrys immitate female bees in different ways in order to lure the male bee. He thinks they are bees and tries to copulate with the flower. He ends up sticking his head on the pollinia of the flower and frustrated he flies away but then he has no memory , so he goes to anothe orchid. I live in Greece and the hills and mountains are full of those amazing flowers!

I have so many daylilies! Going outside right now and tasting a few!

i used to live next to a neighbor who had these flowers covering both sides of the fence that divided our yards. they would always tell us we were welcome to eat them, but we thought you could only eat the nectar. who knew i could have been eating flower salad every spring! i wonder if i can grow them here in Arizona...

Can’t grow those in my yard! The deer nip off the buds!

Very educational and enjoyable video, going to have to give day lilies a try 🤓

That 3, 5 is in the Fibonacci sequence 1,2,3,5,8,12... Likely subconciously shows us the vitality if that environment (survival).

Thank you for the video. Are all the day lily varieties edible ?

Lol, I just went outside and tried one. There ok, squash flowers are better.

Hi Stefan. I really love the idea of Daylilies because there are so many different colours and bloom times. They could be blooming all summer if you get the right cultivars. I emailed a place just double checking that they are all edible and they told me to research as they could give you “digestive issues.” I haven’t found much on this except to mainly eat hemerocallis Fulva (the tried for years daylily) what do you think? Can I get a variety and eat them all?

Yes I have tried them! I've eaten them raw, buds and flowers. We don't have in our garden yet. I hope to plant some!

good information. where to buy the plant or seeds? thanks!

Plants are often called by different names here where I am, so can you tell me the botanical name of your day lilies, please? I've been told 'naked lady' or Belladonna lilies are poisonous, or at least the seeds are. What about the seeds of your day lilies?

Good timing, I'm just about to order bulbs, day-lilies will be added now. Zone 3 is cold and was surprised to see these will grow here, perfect! The good part is they are edible, can't beat that. Thank you for the heads up on day-lilies!

I have seen the bulbs used in a stir-fry. They look as though they are a "dickens" to clean though. They separated the bulbs...as in peeling an onion into "petals". Soak in water and scrub between your hands to get the soil off, then let soak for 15 minutes. Add to your stir fry, it is supposed to be starchy as a potato. Chinese Cooking Demystified is the channel I believe.

My husband loves his lilies, and we have them planted front, back, and side of the house, but I never knew they were edible. I wonder how he would feel if he found them on the dinner table?

I have a small garden and a ton of houseplants, and I can't have daylilies, I have a cat who loves to chew and they're poisonous to cats. Also, I've grown sick of how they look. My town plants them freakin everywhere. Its upsetting and they're slowly working on changing it. I'm finding feverfew in the rain gardens now edging in on the lilies and catmint that used to be all that they'd grow. Now they've also got ornamental grasses, two or three new kinds of tree, and huge displays of dahlia, cannas, petunia, and a bunch of miscellaneous butterfly/pollinator friendly flowers. It shows we get butterflies that didn't used to show up in the center of town. It used to be that all that would show up in the center of town were cabbagewhites and maximum one or two yellow swallowtail butterflies a season. Now... NOW the swallowtails are regulars in the middle of town!!! But I've got a small side yard garden filled with containers, the next door neighbors and the center of town they all plant daylilies why on earth should I waste that space? Instead I have perennial herbs, five to eight different kinds of basil, zinnias, borage, nasturtiums and mustards for my flowering plants. Besides the bumblebees that come to my tomatoes and scarlet runner beans, I get hoverflies, teeny wasps (three or four different kinds actually, some are so beautiful its incredible), jumping spiders and a ton of yellow orbweaver spiders. (In fact this year seems to have more yellow orb weavers than the other four that I've been doing this in.) And this year I finally coaxed a yellow swallowtail butterfly and a dragonfly to stop at my garden (YIPPIE!) But daylilies are so over used in garden beds around here I don't bother with trying to use them/get them anymore. To me they're ugly. I'd rather master propagating and forcing other bulbs, I found tulip bulbs in empty lots and hyacinths are cheap around here so I can keep trying those. I've already gotten cannas to grow from seeds and the one risk i'm taking with my cat is forcing paperwhites (narcissus family bulbs are also poison to cats). Its just not worth it when every other block I'm seeing daylilies daylilies daylilies all over!!!!

Are orange day-lilies are flowering now, the deer are having a field day!

I'm trying to find out, do you think this is good for soil building? As a green manure? Its spreading though my woods and I'm deciding whether to leave it or not..

How timely! I have 2 big tiger lily beds in bloom and was wondering about this. I went outside and picked off a petal to eat. Surprising taste. It didn't taste at all floral. It tasted like a crunchy piece of lettuce.

I have 6 daylillies in my front flowerbed but I’m having trouble with getting them to multiply

Recipes in “The Delightfully Delicious Daylily” by Peter Gail if you can find the book. I grow hundreds of cultivars and hybridize. When baby seedlings bloom it’s like Christmas, a riot of sometimes unpredictable color. The H. fulva are rhizomatous and may spread too much, careful where you put them. Some species tubers may not be as safe to eat as others, so easy does it at first try.

i have several daylilys but i don,t like the taste of it..i will try the leaves next spring..:)

Are there only one type? I get worried about picking things I haven’t planted myself There’s been a couple times I planned on eating something and it turned out it was the wrong one For instance the lavender around here is a type for landscaping but not edible

Is it better to wash them first? 🤔

Are day lilies the same as tiger lilies? What I have, in my yard, we took from the side of the road (ages ago). We always called them tiger lilies. Trying to figure out if my dad called them the wrong thing. All the pictures, on line, look the same.

Is their anything that grows under spruce trees. I heard Mountain Lillies.

Don't mind me some bugs in my flower. It's just extra protein.

if you could add big picture to every video of your farm

You don't need to have a green thumb to raise Daylilies. Plant them ,and jump back! They hold up well in Dry weather.

Woodlily is toxic?

What variety of day Lily are you showing (name of cultivar). Beautiful! Nice and tall!

Anyone have suggestions for a reputable website I could order plants (like these), flowers, shrubs, etc..?

Daylilies! Yummy! Young leaves and buds and blossoms good. Tubers ok but not as good as flowers.

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?are tiger lilies day lilies?

I do hope that you know in the USA they are an invasive species

They make me gassy but at least the smell is good now.

I love the taste of daylilies, but more than one flower a day makes me very nauseated. Just a word of caution for those who have never eaten them - try one first before really digging in.

Maybe I have an allergy, but diurnal, yellow daylilies give me the sh*ts. I haven't tried other varieties.

Please eat the tuber ones not the one with the round bulbs as the ones with bulbs are toxic.

I’ve been eating them for 50 yrs.

We have a tub of orangey day lilies just like yours - but never considered that they might be edible!! Actually they hardly produce any flowers but they are a bit congested. Maybe they need to be divided and planted in the ground?

Day lilies have roots, not bulbs.

Petals give me heartburn

I wonder what bug u found in a flower tht u ate or was gonna eat tht u keep saying tht 😂🤣😂 it must of been real disturbing the way u keep saying tht😂

But why eat the poor things? Put the flowers in your vase.

What is the big, hard thing every Polish man gives his wife on their wedding day... ???

Caution Dumb narrator Not all types of day lilies are safe to eat