Every part of the daylily is edible if you don't spray any chemicals in your garden. Not necessarily are they yummy but they are grown as a food crop in China.

Daylilies are the perfect flower for kids. They can pick their favorite blooms in the afternoon and play with them. We pick them all, and load them into our red wagons. The next day new blooms open and then you don't have the spent old ones.

Best of all is eating icecream out of a daylily. Make sure you have daylilies, not other lilies. Just snap the bloom off, use your thumb and forfinger and pinch out the pollen from the center. Now you have a perfect icecream cone!

Tell the kids they can pick their own cone and they will search every daylily in the garden for the largest trumpet shaped bloom :-) They don't have to eat the flower but if they do it's ok. The yellows taste best, kind of like iceberg lettuce.

One last thing, don't forget to have your camara ready. Faces smeared with icecream while licking daylily cones make fabulous pictures!

Bye,
Melanie