Pretty much 'all' of my gardens are planted predominantly with daylilies. But to extend the bloom time out at each end, I companion-plant my daylily beds and borders with many other perennials. My daylily season is just beginning now (start of July). So, to keep those beds interesting when the daylilies are not yet showing their pretty faces... some examples of my borders and beds.

Many of the early perennials (lupines, foxgloves, peonies) will disappear into the background as the daylilies take over. This first garden path is bounded on both sides by daylilies... which will soon steal the show.



And both sides of this walkway are loaded with daylilies ... in another week or two, you will forget anything else is planted along the path.



Now, let's see some of 'your' garden paths. How do you show off your daylilies in the garden?

No "garden paths" here really since I have a more urban garden and live on a hill. But I do have garden areas.

The patio is our outdoor living space and I have daffodils planted here for early spring interest and besides daylilies there are shastas.
The view here includes large azaleas and rhododendrons





The front hill is planted with lots of tulips and the junipers, magnolia, and yucca create yearlong interest. The crepe myrtle and hibiscus give a later season pop.






The walkway to the front of the house is planted with daffodils, tulips, allium for spring interest and has a lot of shastas with the daylilies. The shastas are green throughout the year here. The crepe myrtle frames this space.

Love your pathways Dianne, especially your second photo combining the mix of textures and colors of the perennial foliage with the different colors of the step stones.

Jill, same here, more urban setting and garden areas rather than pathways. Your gardens are beautiful.

Gorgeous gardens!

Other than a few stepping stone paths through gardens where I needed a cut-through, the only paths I have built are matted down mulch, and even those are where we needed to be able to walk. We have restrictions on creating any permanent coverage because of drainage to rivers downstream. Lots of government oversight and permits required.

robinjoy,
Talking about government control to the ultimate extent, a garden path? I am biting my tongue as I write this. I do have one path other than just the mulched paths for walking and working, a concrete squares path with leaves and hummingbirds cast in them going from my house to my fountain. So thankful I did not have to go through all the red tape of getting government permission for that.

One of the most amazing path landscaping I have seen (a home in in our former area) had been built out of stones harvested from the bottom of the Tennessee River, all with fossils in them. Who knew? They were incredible.

Nothing special but I made myself a little access path in the hosta bed early this spring using old bags of mulch. I laid cardboard underneath. It's camouflaged pretty well. 🧐
A path to "nowhere" but if I need to do some digging/planting I thought it would be helpful...and if I change my mind and want to plant there..no harm done. 😊

I really only have "rows". Might not count as a path, but I had to contribute something...

I have those type of paths also, I think of it as rows of flowers with paths in-between.

This isn't a garden path, but a path thru my seedling bed behind the pole barn. It will be a nice walk when seedlings are blooming...

This area is constantly being modified. Just a couple weeks ago I enhanced the path by filling it with sand. On either side of it the planting areas have been raised a few inches through amending the soil over the years, so a few inches of sand filled the path in nicely and looked good...



Extraneous details for those interested:

To the left of the path, against the side of the pole barn, it gets so hot when the sun is out that I've pretty much stopped putting seedlings there to face that extreme torture test. I'm treating it as an "overflow" area to occasionally sneak in a few seedlings now and then that otherwise wouldn't be planted due to lack of room, and at least give them a chance...

Right against the pole barn some nice looking grass started growing. I let it grow and was quite pleased with how it looked until I came to realize it is nut sedge! Terrible weed! So while I love the look of it in clumps I don't want it spreading seed all through the seedling bed. So I have a dilemma. I week or so ago when it developed seed I pruned it all down, collected the leaves and seeds, and disposed of them. So that might work but I'm not a fan of the extra work, and risk. So I will probably dig them out in put in a more benign grass...

In the main bed on the right you see taller second years in the back, new first-years in the front. I for some reason like splitting the bed between years. Also note there are some established seedlings amongst the first years. When clearing the bed for the new year's seedlings I will occasionally leave a few. I'm not sure they really are keepers, but I can't quite bear to dig them up and compost them either. So I give them another year.
This is an example.

It is in my applique program, but it is not applique (even though it is from a cross of two appliques) so normally I'd compost it. But it has so many nice bloom traits: Nice color-- even though not saturated it is clean. Perfectly formed and consistently so. Quite blotch resistant and fade resistant. It likely has applique genes recessively so I'd feel comfortable crossing it back into the applique program. So I will keep it around to improve bloom traits in other seedlings...

The sand for the path came from this new keeper bed I established this spring.

Even though most of my property is solid clay, this area is pure sand-- I believe it was brought in here when the pole barn was constructed. So ideally I'd dig out this bed completely to a depth of at least 1.5 feet and replace with good planting soil. Instead what I did was dig 11 cylinders about 2 feet in diameter and 1.5 feet deep. While ideally I'd like to give the keepers room to form full 3-4 foot clumps, I think 2 feet is a good compromise. They should have plenty of good soil to grow in for several years, and over time I'd imagine the good soil will leach into the gaps between the cylinders...
I can't tell you how incredibly comforting it is knowing this bed is available with room for 11 keepers! Actually looking forward to culling this fall now. Well, not really but this does help. Now, can I keep myself from filling this bed all in one year...

Dennis
The main problem with nutsedge is :
"They spread by small tubers, by creeping rhizomes, or by seed. New tubers begin forming four to six weeks after a new shoot emerges. Individual nutsedge plants may eventually form patches 10 feet or more in diameter."
"The tubers and rhizomes can grow eight to 14 inches below the soil surface."
https://hgic.clemson.edu/facts...

Larry there really is no question I need to remove it. The only question is finding the time, and energy...

Dennis - Don Herr had a 3-year rotation in his seedling beds - it was very organized and worked well. He would cull each year, and by the end of 3 years everything would go elsewhere if it was keeper, making room for the new plants. Older plants that he was growing larger to divide and sell, and dayliies from other growers that he planned to use in his programs, went into a neighboring area of the hybridizing garden. He also had display beds around the rest of the yard.

Wendy, I try to cull as much as I can after 2 yrs, but do let many go 3 so am essentially settling into a 3-yr rotation also... I had 3 beds but am abandoning 1 because it had become filled with tree roots... working on getting back up to 3... and having beds/landscape areas for keepers... ..

Great thread, Dianne, and your paths are so beautiful with all those plants!
Love the flowing curve in that grassy section.

Lori, you have some lovely garden areas.

I really enjoy seeing how others have their gardens laid out. I'll have to add some pics later.

I have concrete driveway on both sides of my daylily row. The path isn't worth a photo. The evening view might be though 👍

Pretty, Diana!

@blue23rose Thank you for the acorn, Vickie!

Well, perhaps I should clarify: personally, I think even a footpath among your daylilies is still a garden path. And I do have other garden paths which are narrow footpaths (just did not have a picture handy when I posted the fancy ones).

I love the gardens, and rows, and all the various paths being shown here! And absolutely yes: garden areas and garden 'rooms' all count.

We're daylily gardeners and need to be able to get between and among our wonderful flowers, so just thought it would be fun to share our ideas and show various approaches to keeping access while still enjoying the blooms.

Keep the wonderful pictures coming, and thanks for sharing.

I have concrete driveway on both sides of my daylily row. The path isn't worth a photo. The evening view might be though 👍

These are my garden paths. These pics were taken all within the past two weeks.

The front of my house faces east and shows the American Legion Home in the background and they are setting up for their 4th of July party today. It is nice to live next to a place that reminds me of all the freedoms we have today because of the service of those brave men and women who served our country.


On the west side of the house, looking south, this is the bridge we made in 2009 when I decided I wanted a garden on this side of the house.


That snowballed into going around the corner of the house.


Then we continued on the north side of the house to go all the way to the patio.


And what I call the "north row", has no path except little cut throughs to get from one side of the row to the other.