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Book Horde Garden I love to read and also to spend time outdoors in the garden-zone 6-Daylilies, hosta, pollinators!

Seedling, Class of 2023, blooming for the second year...5 way branching, 20+ buds per scape and the color is a lilac tha...
06/22/2026

Seedling, Class of 2023, blooming for the second year...5 way branching, 20+ buds per scape and the color is a lilac that is elusive to capture.... really gorgeous 🤩. (Logically Implied x Polston seedling #5) There were only two seedlings from this cross and I'm very happy!

FIRST blooms, ka-BOOM! Polston's Feathered Serpent and Lambert's Complex Complexity, in a deadhead crossing the finish l...
06/07/2026

FIRST blooms, ka-BOOM! Polston's Feathered Serpent and Lambert's Complex Complexity, in a deadhead crossing the finish line to open our bloom season. BTW, to any garden judges out there, we have 20 of the plants on this year's ballot to view as well as a few outstanding seedlings up for Junior Citation consideration. Let me know if you would like to visit!

Still looking for that first daylily bloom, scapes are everywhere! I'm surviving on pond lily flowers....Until then, I'm...
06/01/2026

Still looking for that first daylily bloom, scapes are everywhere! I'm surviving on pond lily flowers....Until then, I'm expanding a shade garden bed, weeding, edging and I've gone through a 1/2 truckload of mulch leftover from last year and an entire new load delivered May 14 and completely gone as of today!

Woohoo! The article I researched and wrote for the Spring 2025 issue of the ADS Region 2 Great Lakes Daylily Journal won...
05/24/2026

Woohoo! The article I researched and wrote for the Spring 2025 issue of the ADS Region 2 Great Lakes Daylily Journal won an award at the national ADS convention this weekend in Valdosta, GA! The award was for 'Best Article about Hybridizers or Hybridizing' in a regional newsletter. Shout out of thanks to all the patient hybridizers who shared their journey with me, Saundra the editor, and everyone who found something they could use in its pages!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OHXC-afGtC51461OIw3fHFrTCCp-uEcZ/view?usp=sharing

Early blooms here, we *seem* to be past frost warnings, but no promises. About 6 Daylily cultivars are scaping, that's ...
05/21/2026

Early blooms here, we *seem* to be past frost warnings, but no promises. About 6 Daylily cultivars are scaping, that's 1.5% of our plants, and I am really looking forward to seeing the first ones! Meanwhile, edging and mulching, mulching and edging....

This is how it is in daylilies! Photo of seedling under evaluation.
04/23/2026

This is how it is in daylilies! Photo of seedling under evaluation.

Yea! Class of 2024 is successfully transplanted! They survived drought and -12 degree winter weather. Almost 1600 seeds ...
04/11/2026

Yea! Class of 2024 is successfully transplanted! They survived drought and -12 degree winter weather. Almost 1600 seeds resulted in 1450 one year old hardy zone 6 seedlings.

It's funny what you think of while working in the garden... this came to me a few days ago
04/04/2026

It's funny what you think of while working in the garden... this came to me a few days ago

So, before y'all go yellin it's too early to put seedlings out in the beds, I know that, just read before the yellin. T...
03/28/2026

So, before y'all go yellin it's too early to put seedlings out in the beds, I know that, just read before the yellin. The class of 2024 has survived direct seeding into their bed, a summer of drought and baking temps and a winter of lows of --12 degrees. Now, while dormant, I have started moving them to the next bed with 6" spacing. There are Tet Here's To You Bill Robinson crosses, extra dark crosses, broken color crosses and toothy crosses. THEN, maybe, just MAYBE, I will have room to direct seed the class of 2025....I hope.

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