Daylilies in landscaping: beautiful ideas for your yard

The landscape design of the site is a unique opportunity to create a "paradise" on the territory of your home, where the air will be filled with aromas of beautiful flowers, and their eyes will certainly please their bright compositions. There are a lot of landscaping options: you can use both rare, exotic varieties of trees, shrubs, flowers, so familiar species for your region - it all depends on the preferences and capabilities of the site owners.

Daylily - a great option for any composition

Daylily is one of the few perennials that will be an ideal option for landscaping a personal plot due to its unpretentiousness and beautiful appearance. A wide range of colors, decorative leaves, a long flowering period, ease of cultivation and shade tolerance - these are the main advantages of this flower. Daylilies simply combine with other flowers, shrubs, they will certainly become the decoration of any composition.

Chinese philosophy says that it is daylilies, their contemplation, that allows you to forget about all the worries and worries.

Before creating a composition, you need to determine the desired result: you need a large flower garden or a solitary planting. In flower arrangements, the best companions of daylilies will be: marshmallow, dahlias, knifofiya, simply stick-like, reedweed, crocosmia, veronica longifolia, catnip. Orange, brown-bronze and yellow varieties are ideally combined with agapanthus - it turns out a bright, beautiful and contrasting composition. Varieties with purple flowers are recommended to be combined with Phlox "Amethyst". Varieties of daylilies Grand Opera and Matador look spectacular against the background of crocosmia, their red flowers with yellow elements become the main focus of the flowerbed.

Daylilies with other bulbous plants also look harmonious: dolphinium, tulips, hyacinths, hosts, crocuses, irises, gaylardia, astilbe. At the same time, bulbs should be planted in the foreground, then the bulbs will be protected from overheating, and the type of flowerbed will be beautiful, bright, but unobtrusive.

Low-growing varieties of daylilies are actively used in the design of rockeries, alpine hills. Tall varieties with large and bright flowers are suitable for complementing a composition of shrubs and a host with decorative leaves.

What affects the choice of daylily varieties

Choosing a particular daylily variety for use in the landscape design of the site, several factors are taken into account:

The height of the future composition

Different varieties of daylilies have peduncles from 35 to 120 centimeters high, so you need to clearly determine where to plant them, and whether they will be appropriate on the site, which plants will complement the flower bed. Otherwise, you can simply block the beauty of the flowers and make all efforts in vain.

Selection of colors

Today you can buy varieties of daylilies, the flowers of which differ in shape, size and color. In addition, they all have different flowering times. The widest assortment will make it possible to realize any idea, but when choosing flowers it is important to take into account the already existing (or planned) palette of plants, so that there is no concentration of completely inappropriate tones, because they should all be in harmony and give aesthetic pleasure.

Planning a site for future landing

In addition to plant diversity, it is necessary to take into account the architectural component of the site: buildings, gazebos, pools, etc. They can become a backdrop for planting, therefore it is important to adhere to the principles of harmony and taste: for example, it is better to plant daylilies of bright colors near a light facade (red, purple, brown), if the facade is dark - cream, yellow varieties are ideal.

It is worth noting that the dosing of light is not particularly important for daylilies of light varieties, but if we talk about dark ones, then the minimum daylight hours should be 7-8 hours, otherwise the flowers will lose their bright appearance, spots will begin to appear.

An excellent place for planting fragrant varieties will be recreation areas on the site - then in addition to aesthetic visual enjoyment, you can also enjoy the aroma of a flower arrangement.

Songs from daylilies near ponds look very impressive, here you can safely fantasize with a color scheme: it can be a seamlessly changing gamut from light to dark tones, the concentration of varieties of one tone, resulting in a bright ball with decorative green leaves, layout with hard-leaved shrubs and similar colors.

Also a significant advantage of daylilies is that they can be planted anywhere in the site (it is only important that this is a zone of incomplete shadow). Their decorativeness is emphasized when planting in an open area, when the composition consists exclusively of daylilies - such a mixborder must be correctly composed, planting dwarf varieties in the foreground, the flower looks great on the background of lawns, flower beds, houses with a summer house architecture, various institutions, and an ideal place for border daylilies will become an area along the walkways.

The variety of daylily varieties is huge - there are about 62,000 species, where each flower has an unusual shape, color, inflorescence (single-row, double), size. There is a place among them and exotic varieties that are compared with diamonds. If during the development of landscape design the choice fell on them, you need to remember that they also need unusual neighbors: cereals (cordateria, Miscanthus), feather grass, yucca, cannes, Greek, etc.

Daylily - the most unpretentious perennial plant, which opens the start of spring flowering, it is able to delight the eye until late autumn, surprise and inspire. With many advantages, the plant deprives the owners of the plot of the hassle associated with breeding. The flower needs only to be planted correctly - and your garden will sparkle with new colors, be filled with aroma and riot of flowers.