Getting it to bloom

Why won't my Daylily 'Catherine Woodbery' bloom? (and how to make it flower)

Also called Catherine Woodbery daylily, lavender daylily, orchid daylily (Hemerocallis 'Catherine Woodbery').

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About Daylily 'Catherine Woodbery'

Hemerocallis 'Catherine Woodbery' · also called Catherine Woodbery daylily, lavender daylily · flowering

Hemerocallis 'Catherine Woodbery' is an award-winning daylily prized for its unusual soft lavender-pink blooms with a green throat, produced in mid-summer. It is lightly fragrant and exceptionally heat-tolerant. Like all daylilies, it is highly toxic to cats and potentially fatal if any part is ingested.

Plant type: flowering

Watch for — Slug damage: Slugs consume emerging foliage and flower buds. Use iron phosphate pellets or copper barriers around clumps in spring.

The reasons daylily 'catherine woodbery' isn't blooming

Almost every non-blooming daylily 'catherine woodbery' traces back to one of these, roughly in order of how common they are:

Too little sun — most of these need full sun (or very bright light) to flower well; shade gives leaves, not blooms.
Too much nitrogen feed, driving lush foliage at the expense of flowers (very common with general or lawn feeds).
The plant has not been deadheaded, so it stops flowering once it sets seed.
Irregular watering — drought or waterlogging at the budding stage makes buds abort.
It is still too young or was checked by a transplant and is rebuilding before flowering.

Feeding daylily 'catherine woodbery' a high-nitrogen general feed and growing it in too little sun — you get a big leafy plant and almost no flowers.

The fix — how to get daylily 'catherine woodbery' to flower

Maximise sun. Give daylily 'catherine woodbery' the sunniest spot you have — for most bedding and fruiting plants, more direct light directly means more flowers.
Switch the feed. Move off high-nitrogen feeds and use a higher-potassium "bloom" or tomato-type feed as it comes into flower.
Deadhead regularly. Remove spent flowers often to keep it producing more rather than stopping to set seed.
Water consistently. Keep moisture even through budding and flowering — drought-then-flood swings make buds drop.

Light and feeding do most of the heavy lifting here. Dial in the spot with the light guide for daylily 'catherine woodbery' and get the feeding right with the daylily 'catherine woodbery' fertilising schedule — the wrong feed (too much nitrogen) is one of the most common silent reasons a healthy plant makes leaves instead of flowers.

Bloom season and what to expect

Daylily 'Catherine Woodbery' flowers across its growing season (mostly summer) and, kept fed and deadheaded, can bloom for many weeks or right up to frost.

Post-bloom care so it flowers again

Deadhead, keep feeding lightly, and many will rebloom; collect seed from the best plants at the end of the season if you want to grow them again.

For everything else this plant needs day to day, see the full daylily 'catherine woodbery' care brief and its watering schedule — a stressed, badly watered plant rarely has the energy to flower at all.

Daylily 'Catherine Woodbery' blooming — frequently asked questions

Why won't my daylily 'catherine woodbery' flower?

Daylily 'Catherine Woodbery' blooms on the season's growth given enough sun, warmth and the right feed — there is no cold or photoperiod trick, just good growing conditions and a bloom-leaning feed. The most common reason it is not happening: Too little sun — most of these need full sun (or very bright light) to flower well; shade gives leaves, not blooms.

How do I make daylily 'catherine woodbery' bloom?

Give daylily 'catherine woodbery' the sunniest spot you have — for most bedding and fruiting plants, more direct light directly means more flowers. Move off high-nitrogen feeds and use a higher-potassium "bloom" or tomato-type feed as it comes into flower.

When does daylily 'catherine woodbery' normally bloom?