I bought a house last summer with a steep bank in a wooded area and read on
the archives of this group that common orange daylilies work very well for
erosion control- better than the hybrid kind since they spread faster.

Boy is that the truth- a gardener gave me about 20 common orange daylilies
and I planted them on the bank and this spring they are sprouting up
everywhere- there's huge clusters of them (50+) sprouting up downhill 20-30
yards from where I planted any. The really weird thing is going to be if
these things keep spreading at this exponential rate which I assume they
will.

How exactly do they spread? I read somewhere it was only through roots but I
don't see how that could be unless one that I didn't dig in very well washed
downhill.
And there are some in my neighbor's bank that aren't downhill at all- just
parallel to my patch.

It's kind of fun watching these things make themselves at home in the area-
I have a feeling that long after I'm gone there will be tons of daylilies in
this part of town due to me.

Bob

Sounds like you have one of the species types of daylilies. They spread by
sending runners under the soil. They will spread fast and give you a great
show when they go into bloom. If they start getting where you don't want
them, then get out the roundup and fight tough.

Bobby
http://happymoosegardens.com

Best to put some sort of root barrier between them and anything you have
that's desirable. They can send runners quite a distance under the soil -
not just adjacent places. However, the one that's far downhill probably did
wash down. Just a tuber fragment is all it takes to get a new plant.
"Bobby Baxter" wrote in message
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Sounds like you have one of the species types of daylilies. They spread
by
sending runners under the soil. They will spread fast and give you a
great
show when they go into bloom. If they start getting where you don't want
them, then get out the roundup and fight tough.

Bobby
http://happymoosegardens.com