We are now home! We did not take in any of the gardens this morning. Instead, we drove back to Gainesville, FL to spend last night. We wanted to stop back by the Gaskins' Daylily Garden on our way home. We stopped on our way down and picked out some of their seedlings. Today we picked out more and bought Complementary Colors (ours died after growing it probably 5 years) and Mystic Image (G. Pierce 2010). Mary gave us one of their introductions, Miss Scarlet. We brought back the two Mecca gift plants that the Petits and Nicole gave to all who visited their gardens. We bought two seedlings from the Trimmers. All in all, we came home with 30 new daylilies. The back seat was full with some in the floor and in the trunk with most in pots. I am now going outside to cut all the foliage off and will leave the scapes. I will treat all for rust as a precaution before planting.
Steph, the champagne may have been tasty but I would not know. I appreciate the empty bottles more than the contents! LOL We will have to put these two bottles in a special place and even put a plant stand with label saying, "Daylily Mecca 2012 Le Jardin Petit" or something like that. We were all on a "Daylily High" this weekend!
I did not tell you which gardens we went to. We started Friday at the Petits', then went over to John Peat's, and then to the Salters'. We started Saturday in Nicole's garden followed by Pete Harry's, Floyd Cove, and the Trimmers' garden. I regret that we did not make it to the Lambertsons' garden before we ran out time.
One of the highlights of the trip was meeting Leslie (lalambchop) and a couple of Dave's Garden friends (Pam and daughter Tracy from FL) that we had never met before.
I will post some pictures as time permits. Got to get outside now!
Doris
