0:00 well it's cold and damp out sighs but in Jeff shed it's very cozy. I've had another

0:04 delivery off the postman, Hemerocallis.

0:08 oh it's more commonly known as day lily, I think Hemerocallis means

0:13 beautiful for a day but look at that that's top quality grown beautiful thing

0:20 the roots everything about that is saying to me I want to grow please put

0:25 me in a pots I want to grow because it is lovely now it couldn't be easier a

0:30 few crops in the bottom to allow for drainage it really is the simplest

0:37 task in the world multi-purpose compost that's all you have to do a bit

0:43 multi-purpose compost in the bottom then just before that fish blood and bone

0:47 grow more a general fertilizer that's slow release it just releases it over

0:52 the next two months sprinkle that and mix it up onto you the next handful that

0:59 you're going to put in the Hemerocallis or Day Lily goes in just like that

1:03 all these roots will swell up beautiful and then just pop that on now what

1:10 you're doing with this is you're growing it in a pot now you can if you want to

1:16 grow it in a bigger pot and put it on your patio because the flowers only

1:22 flower for a day but another flower comes along another day it's not just a

1:28 one day you put the but you can plant it out in the garden they do perfectly well

1:34 grow on four years and there's hundreds and hundreds of different varieties but

1:40 the beauty of these is that you starting it off early you're getting six weeks

1:44 ahead of anything that grows out in the garden I put it into a pot now that will

1:50 stand outside don't bring it in don't put it in a greenhouse there's no need

1:53 to keep that warm at at all but that will grow on you can see it's ready to

1:57 go now but there's so many varieties colors and hues Calico Jack yellow and

2:02 plum red cherry Valentine's soft pink and red woopie purple with near black I

2:09 Tigger my grandson will like that that's orange

2:11 with a red eye Paul Watts read but I tell you what

2:15 destined to see white and purple with a yellow sensor now that's a good one

2:19 now if that selections not enough this giant double Hamrick Alice as well about

2:24 voodoo dancer purple with black flowers now that's unusual giant double Hamrick

2:29 Alice double dream soft peach double red Royale deep burgundy with edge with

2:34 white awesome blossom rolls with a plum a Canadian Border Patrol creamy with a

2:41 purple eye or el desperado yellow with wine purple eye that's something to

2:47 contemplate or the varieties well France howls Janice brown pink demas Stella

2:52 d'Oro we could be here for a long time to come

2:56 so there you've got it Hemerocallis or day lily a beautiful beautiful thing I

3:01 think is about I read somewhere there was 30,000 cultivars whether that's true

3:05 or not I don't know but I know that some of them have a lot more difficult to

3:10 produce and others so probably going to be a bit more expensive but the main

3:14 varieties are wonderful it's called a daylily

3:17 and they they flower continually for the season and flowers pop off and go if you

3:22 want to deadhead them that probably makes the process a little bit quicker

3:25 but otherwise they're a beautiful thing and no garden should be without them