AHS Garden Judge

I recieved my official status as a AHS Garden Judge and yesterday I recieved my annual ballot in the mail. It sounds very impressive and awe inspiring – you get to judge gardens right? You don’t judge gardens, you judge different [...]

Blooming daylilies

Daylily blooms, Forbidden Fantasy, Blue Voodoo, and Spirit [...]

Compost Tea

how to make compost [...]

Another Round of Seminars Complete

This was a full weekend of seminars (Fanick’s Nursery and Antique Rose Emporium) and rain (we had 1.7 inches over the two days!! now hopefully we will get some more). There were lots of questions from both groups and I will cover a few the basic ones that I heard at both groups this [...]

Hybridizing Daylilies – if the bees can, then so can you

Now this blog article isn’t supposed to give you all the ins and outs of hybridizing, but it will give you a start on what really is a fun aspect of gardening.

You have seen all those $100.00+ new introductions from the hybridizers and you would like to try a few of your own, well here is how to get started. You have some blooms starting on your daylilies and you want to try hybridizing some new [...]

More Blooms

More blooms from [...]

New Blooms for Easter

us 1/10th of an inch of rain yesterday morning. After the showers had passed, I walked outside and saw several new blooms had opened up. Dance on Moonbeam is a very pretty light yellow daylily. The second one was Coronal [...]

Pearl Brewery Farmer's Market Opening

day has finally arrived, and we had our first Pearl Brewery Farmer’s Market Soft Opening. It went off without a hitch – even the occassional raindrops didn’t hinder us (now the rain can come pouring [...]

Water, Water, and more Water

Well, hopefully this Saturday (after the Pearl Brewery Farmer’s Market) we will get some needed rain, but I’m not betting on it quite yet. As many of you know we have been using drip tape for our daylilies in our production field. With some of our new beds, we are looking at something a little different. Yesterday, we set up one of the new daylily beds with a microemitter spray [...]

Daylily Photos

If you have ever seen a daylily in a catalog and said I have got to buy it. You ordered it, planted it, took care of it, and saw it blooming only to realize it wasn’t the color you were [...]