I have been reading about gardens of daylilies and mixed with other perennials and must say I have seen many pictures of such mixed gardens that are truely spectacular. I admire the look of daylilies with other flowers but it is something I have never been able to manage to do. If I try the results were always a disaster. Either the perennials died or tried to take over the entire daylily bed.
The closest I come to this look are some annuals like snapdragons in sections of two beds and zinnias which I have in sections in back of some daylily beds. I realise that is hardly the same thing!
I am working on the spring bulbs around the daylily beds and that is working out pretty good for me as the bulb blooms were stunning this spring. I mostly go for tulips and daffodils. And it also works with lilies again in back of sections of daylilies. This late spring I planted shorter lilies in between some of my daylily sections. We will see next year how that works out.
I use sections of daylilies and then sections of other plants like my Tall Beared Iris beds and my zinnia sections. Of course lots of rose garden bed sections. But I can never mange to actually mix plants like many (or is it most) people do. Something I am a complete failure at no matter how many times I have tried. Years ago I used to have much more mixed gardens and I must say they looked terrible.
I don't know how people manage to design those mixed beds and actually carry it off.
