What happens if you accidentally mow down day lilies?

Question

My brother mowed my mom's day lilies down to the ground. Will they grow more this summer?

Answer 1

They will grow back. Daylillies are tough.

Answer 2

Daylillies are very easy to grow.
There's some 800,000 named daylilly cultivars,everybody in the neighborhood can have daylillies w/o repeating!

Daylillies like sun and plenty of water, and in good soil will thrive with no additional watering. Daylillies will tolerate some shade, but 1/2 day or more of shade will result in a lack of growth. They will still bloom, the clump just won't increase.

Divide daylillies by digging up large clumps and soaking in water to loosen. Pull apart or cut apart with a shovel. I suggest not dividing down to single fans, but keeping 3 or more fans per clump when re-planting.
Daylillies can be transplanted at any time, my preferred time is in the spring when the new shoots are newly emerged from the soil. Moving them in the summer and pruning off the tops is likely to result in a loss of bloom next year.
There's no point in deadheading Daylillies. The flowers drop off by themselves.
Don't prune your daylillies.The bloom stalks can be pulled from the clump after they turn brown.

With their outsized reproductive organs, daylillies are a hybridizers dream! Just take a pollen stem from one plant and rub pollen on the female organ of another plant.
There will be a seed pod left behind if the hybridization effort was successful. When the seed pod swells and splits open, the seeds will be ripe.

Prepare a seed bed, (raised beds are ideal for this), plant in rows like carrots-immediately. Perenials usually set seed at the right time to plant. The seedling daylillies should bloom in about 18 months. (not next spring, the spring after that). Something new under the sun!

Answer 3

On any bulb plant, they gather their energy for the next year through the green that is left after they bloom. I would clip all the dead brown off, as it has no purpose once the green is gone. Never let them go to seed. After each bloom, cut the top off and the energy goes to the bulb. If you have the original old fashioned orange, they grow here where old homesteads used to be, totally neglected and always are beautiful to drive by and look at. We are zone 5. Once they are brown, cut them down. Next year the new growth won't have to try to push through that, also you won't have bugs nesting in the decaying foliage. I used to have a full collection of hybrids and the old fashioned. I moved, but went and got some old fashioned ones. I tend to neglect them, but they are beautiful and thriving, getting thicker each year.

Answer 4

Yes they will grow back this year, and will bloom again with enough fertilizer, water and sun in warmer climates. If not for sure next spring.

Answer 5

They will grow back next year. Go ahead and neatly trim to ground and next year tey will bloom nicely

Answer 6

They may. they are hardy. If they do grow back, they'll bloom in the Fall. Next year, they will be fine.

Answer 7

they will come back next year,they should come back this year with a little care not positive though if they will come back this year