The deer are eating the blooms off the lilies just as they're ready to open up. Can I move them to another area now?
Nipped in the bud! Yes, you can move daylilies although as you know, spring and fall are better times. To compensate for summer heat, you will need to water well but what I think is more important is to provide the plants with some shade for up to a week. Watch the plant and remove the shade when it seems to have recovered. Rig up some shade with leaf bags over poles (I use a shovel sometimes), a large box placed to provide shade or an old piece of fabric taped to sticks. Better looking alternatives include row cover material or "shade fabric". Time the move for decent temperatures and there is nothing like rain for helping plants settle in. Good luck.
When is it the best time to cut down your flowers after they've no flowers on them and all there is is the bottom of their stems
Cut down flower stems on daylilies once blooms are faded. Daisies will produce more blooms if faded flowers are cut back to the next visible bud. On tall shasta daisies, this may be 6-9 inches below the bloom. Look closely for new growth where a leaf meets the stem. Flower stems may be cut back to basal foliage after blooming is over. The main foliage is still needed to prepare the roots for winter so it should remain intact until it yellows in fall.
Are the stems needed tp make more bulbs for the next season?
You can cut off the dead blooms. This will not harm anything at all. This article will give you more information on caring for daylilies: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/bulbs/daylily/growing-daylilies.htm
When transplanting a daylily that has numerous small white hair-like roots, can any roots that are left behind eventually produce another plant?
The smaller roots will not produce any plants, However you can divide the larger rhizome into multiple plants. This hair-like feathering on the roots is caused by its relationship the the good bacteria in your soil called mycorrhizae, Without these the plant would not thrive. Here is a link for more information on dividing daylilies: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/bulbs/lily/dividing-lily-plants.htm
Looking for the best way to start my seeds from day lillies
This article will help you.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/bulbs/daylily/daylily-seed-propagation.htm
Do Daylilies change their flower type from time to time? In my picture "old daylily" this is what the flowers looked like up until this year. Now this summer the same plant is producing markedly different flower types... see "New daylily" photo attached. I am stumped! Thank you, Ann Poitras
If a daylily is allowed to set seed and the seeds are not removed then they can fall to the ground and germinate into a new daylily plant. That plant will not be the same as its parent but may be quite plain. It may also be quite vigorous and outgrow its parent as time passes. If that is the case then after a few years only the seedling will be growing and flowering and then some may look at it and consider that it looks old-fashioned and like an ancestral daylily. But the original plant did not revert; it was more or less killed by its offspring and the offspring was not a parent or ancestral daylily.
Greetings, My neighbor dug 100 Day Lillybulbs out of his garden and wanted to dispose of them, I volunteered to take ownership of them. Now I have 100 bulbs at my disposal and am wanting to protect them until re-planting time. I checked YouTube and saw many solutions on how to clean them, wash them, dry them, wrap them individually in the newspaper and store them in cardboard boxes in a room temperature between 35 to 45. My question is can I just put them in a cardboard box(s); lay dirt(soil) first then neatly the bulbs then dirt on top of them and then another layer and so on? Thank you immensely, MikeSmithIII Dallas, Texas
Spread several inches of moist peat moss in the bottom of a cardboard box or plastic tub.
Lay the rhizomes on top of the peat moss, placing them so they don't touch each other. Rot can spread from plant to plant if the rhizomes are touching and one rots. Alternate layers of peat moss and rhizomes until the box is full or you have placed all of your rhizomes. End with a layer of peat moss.
Store the box in a cold, dry place where the temperature is 35 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit.