Nova Scotia Daylilies
2009 Plant Availability Listing
Canadian Daylily Availability Guide
Soon after purchasing our home in 1993, we started developing
vegetable & perennial gardens. The lawn areas shrunk as gardens were
constructed containing ornamental trees, flowering shrubs, roses, peonies, iris,
ornamental grass, hosta, and many different perennial plants, including some
daylilies. About five years later, I was visiting a friend's garden and
noticed a spectacular daylily. I asked my friend where she had purchased
this plant and she showed me her catalog. A catalog just for
daylilies! I had no idea there was such a thing.
Then along came
the internet!
After it became apparent that our home property was not large enough to hold the rapidly expanding daylily collection, as well as the seedlings I was growing, we purchased a five acre lot about a mile up the road from home and have cleared about two thirds. Three large ponds were excavated which are used for watering when needed. Beds were developed on top of the naturally rocky soil. This new gardening area receives full sun all day and the daylilies that grow there do better than in some areas of the home garden where mature trees cast welcome shade in the summer.
I currently grow approximately 1900 cultivars registered with the American Hemerocallis Society and am a member of the Nova Scotia Daylily Society, The Ontario Daylily Society, The Bay Area Daylily Society and a garden judge with the AHS. My garden is an AHS Display Garden which includes an almost complete collection of Stout Medal Winners from 1950 - 2006. (Four evergreens proved to be not hardy during the winter of 2006-07). The cruel temperature fluctuations of that winter also proved fatal to some Harris Olson Spider Award Winners which had been happily growing in a raised bed for several years. I plan to rebuild the HOSA collection, relocating it to a more protected area. The Lambert/Webster Award bed came through well, with only Frilly Bliss showing any fan loss. My next project is to assemble a Lenington Award collection.
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This space was formerly the carrot patch |
Raised bed by greenhouse |
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Shade garden |
Plum Tree in Bloom Spring 2007 |
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