Propagating Your Daylilies

Daylilies will go into a dormant period in late summer or early fall, and this is the perfect time to propagate (meaning make more of) them. The most common method of daylily progagation is to divide up the "clumps" of plants. If not divided, these crowded daylilies will become less productive every three to five years.

UF/IFAS Publications

• Landscape Plant Propagation Workbook: Propagation by Division

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Daylilies

Other Sites

• Daylily Propagation--University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
• Divide Perennials in 10 Easy Steps--Texas Cooperative Extension
• Divide Those Daylilies--U.S. National Arboretum
• How to Divide a Daylily--Houston Chronicle
• Late Summer is Best Time to Divide Daylilies--Kansas State University Research and Extension
• Take Advantage of Multiplying Daylilies--Mississippi State University Office of Agricultural Communications
• Two Easy-Care Perennials Need Periodic Dividing in August--Kansas State University Research and Extension
• When to Divide Perennials--Iowa State University Cooperative Extension (PDF)