When is the best time to separate overgrown daylilies?
These plants are over three years old. A. Regular division every three to five years will make the job of digging and dividing these fleshy rooted plants easier for you. It also helps keep repeat blooming daylilies flowering throughout the season. Wait for the worst of the hot weather to pass before dividing these and spring flowering perennials. Divisions made in late summer will have the mild autumn weather to root and recover. Q. Little black ball-type things can be seen on my neighbors’ lilies. Are they a seed or are they nothing of significance? A. These little black growths, called bulbils, are really aerial bulbs. They contain all the genetic material needed to start a new plant. They form between the leaf and stem on tiger lilies and several other hardy lilies. Left alone, these bulbils will drop to the ground and eventually grow into a flowering bulb. You can harvest the plump black bulbils when they can easily be pulled from the plant. Place them in a protected spot in the ga
