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How do you maintain daylilies?

How do you maintain daylilies? How do you keep daylilies blooming all summer? To extend bloom time, deadhead spent flowers regularly to promote the formation of new buds. Reblooming varieties will flower longer than other types. Daylilies not blooming can result from too little light, poor soil, overcrowding, or from clumps being planted too deeply.

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Is daylily poisonous to humans?

Is daylily poisonous to humans? It is worth noting that the roots and petals of fresh daylilies contain colchicine – an alkaloid. If fresh daylilies that have not been soaked and cooked thoroughly are eaten, their colchicine can be oxidised into a toxic metabolite known as oxydicolchicine in the human body. Daylily Poisoning Most documented

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Is a daylily a daffodil?

Is a daylily a daffodil? As all good gardeners know, daylilies don’t grow from bulbs like true lilies and other famous bulb flowers like daffodils and tulips. Rather than one onion-like bulb, Daylilies form a mass of thickened, fleshy roots. In general, we only fertilize our daylilies once a year. We sprinkle a couple of

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Do hazelnuts grow in India?

Do hazelnuts grow in India? Hazelnut cultivation in India is in a primitive stage. Seedling trees are found growing wild in Shimla, Kinnaur and Chamba districts of Himachal Pradesh, a northwestern hilly state. Hazels like a moist but free draining soil, in a bright, sunny situation. The production of hazelnuts is likely to be better

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