Making Them  

Bloom For You 

Welcome back, Daylily World family and friends!


Featuring fifty-five years of award-winning, cutting-edge daylilies.  We specialize in single- and double-tetraploid daylilies.

2026 Introductions


After many years of observing and evaluating selected seedlings, this year's abundant harvest offers something for everyone. Coming Very Soon! (An asterisk signifies that the name is pending registration.

Hundreds Of Award-Winning Daylilies!



You are invited to own and enjoy a dazzling array of fantastic, modern-day lilies straight from the verdant garden of Daylily World in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. This is our seventh decade of offering award-winning daylilies. Make a date to visit the Blue Grass and enjoy seeing them in bloom from early to mid-June and July.


How Our Business Bloomed!

       Ed Kirchhoff founded Daylily World in the mid-1960s, building on his grandfather's legacy as a third-generation nurseryman in Sanford, Florida. He had learned to hybridize gladiolus and other flowering plants in the 1920s.     

      David Kirchhoff (Ed Jr) and his partner, Mort Morss, came to Daylily World, sharing the hobby and fondness for all things daylilies in the early 1970s. Soon, their journey with daylilies began. Sadly, Mort passed away in 2023.

     Maintaining a daylily garden of this size requires hundreds of hours of care. David is thankful for the dedication of  Elias Raymundo Montes. Elias has been taking care of much of the heavy lifting in the garden for the past fourteen years and is an integral part of Daylily World.