Why weren’t they blooming? Because I wasn’t fully removing the spent flowers from the plant.
I had no idea that I need to prune Stella D’Oro daylilies during the season, and not just in the Fall and/or Spring.
Stella D’Oro Daylily seed pods
Instead of getting a new flush of blooms, I was getting seed pods forming where the flowers once were.
When seed pods begin to form, the plant will focus its energy on developing those seed pods.
The plant’s energy is no longer focussed on producing flowers.
The plant thinks the growing season is over, so it’s time to work on producing seeds for next year.
Thus, no more flowers appear.
The Solution
The solution to the seeds pods versus blooms is two fold:
- Remove the seeds pods immediately.
- Snip off the seed pods AND their stem as far down as you can go.
How to remove Stella D’Oro daylily seed pods
To remove the seed pods, use either hand pruners or garden snips.
Snip off the seed pods AND their stem as far down as you can go.
The base of the stem is usually hidden by the daylily leaves.
These leaves are pretty resilient, so you can move them without worrying you will damage the plant.
If you just snip off the seed pods near the top of the stem, those remaining stems will soon dry up and turn tan or brown.
Not a big deal, but you probably want to cut them out with the seed pod to avoid another chore of removing the brown stems later.
Removing these seed pods will be a pain to do if there are a lot of them.
But once those seed pods are removed, your Stella D’Oro daylilies will refocus their energy back to producing flowers.
Pretty soon, you’ll have those wonderful yellow blooms back!
Stella D’Oro Daylilies in full bloom.
Source: petscribbles.com
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