Gardening or Cooking?

[trinkie]

On the early radio Gardening programme today, I heard you can eat the flowers of the Day Lily ? Is this true? I have lots of them. Would you cook them like the flowers of the Elderberry bush ? It will be a week or two before they are in full bloom.

Thank you
Trinkie

[Anne x]

Trinkie I think you can I have just googled it but I have somewhere !!! A Edible Wild Plant book bought from Amazon for £3 will look it up if I can find it
Anne

[Margaret M.]

The deer find mine to be very edible -- it is their flower of choice.

This from Garden Web:
All daylilies are edible. But check for the botanical name, Hemerocallis fulva, or any of its cultivars.

This is the website and it has some Day Lily recipes:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/herbs/msg0513033815994.html

[trinkie]

Thank you both for your kind replies.
I will try in a week or so, when they are in bloom..... if they are good I will put my recipe on Cooking Thread. If they are not good..........I may be gone for some time !!