Salome Amasing Grace
Salome Custard Candy
Salome by low
Several other Salome names I'll look up as my memory of them is missing unless I see my map.
Aquire The Fire
Along the Way
Andrew Christis
Indian moccasin
Chipper cherry
Several spiders Hebrides by Linda Barnes of NC
My father sent me about 700 scapes that were sent to him without asking first if he wanted to trade Daylilies for his wife's hostas. He didn't. He sent them to me, on May 10 and then again two days later. The UPS man said nobody plants in North Carolina in May. I wanted to tell him my neighbor just planted grass but I was too busy opening the boxes and putting them in 10% solution of Clorox to a gallon of water as they had been in boxes for almost 2 weeks. The first one started blooming within two weeks. Saratoga Spring time
From then on every May 13 except for a one-year the first draught year it bloomed May 15 and the last boom was usually October 10 . I grew them for 13 years . Three of those years were drought all of the plants bummed but just shorter scapes. I planted them in a maze in the front yard and in full bloom the small children in the town came over with their parents and ran through the maze and the parents took pictures Our peak Blooms day was always June 27 through June 30 . The daylilies to care of themselves in the drought we did not water their little tiny fingerliens took over and then when they got water they just got fatter and pushed a taller stands and blooms . We donated 200o to our local AHS club . The man who owns Happy Moose Wondering wanted to do tetraploids and he wanted us as a club to buy several hundred dollar and $150 plants .The people who grew them would bring them back after three years and give them back to the club for auction and get two scapes. Ours was the most prolific But 700 turned to 6000 named Daylilies that grew in the front yard because they multiply in case anybody hasn't figured that out. Xeriscape with Daylilies! You could see the maze from Google Earth. The $150 one we agreed to grow did not look any better than the older versions of red scattered amongst $50-$4 daylilies. When we retired we decided to move to Texas same zone 8. We tried to sell our Daylilies, a judge came from another county and scooped entire clumps for $10 a clump and he chose the biggest clumps. My husband has been paralyzed since he was six and I became paralyzed while I was working so we both were in surgery in NC. Growing daylilies, Lilium (my and my father's favorite) plus bonsai were in our blood. I had not seen my father throughout my childhood (15 years) and when he saw my garden pictures he said, "whose garden is that?" I told him it was mine and he said you and I love Lilium. His mother grew peonies. My husband and I showed all three and won a few times. My husband was chosen as New Talent Contestant in bonsai national show in Texas. We decided to move to Texas because our son loved in Austin. Along comes the owner of Happy Moose Wandering man who says he successfully grows tetraploids now and very successful sells them. He dug our Daylilies all day long. When I went outside to see his digging I thought we were successfully selling him most of our daylilies. He complained how his wife divorced him and he doesn't have his children. She ran the AHS registry for several years. Then he let some doves out of cages. Walked up to us and said "your daylilies are old." We said "yes they are old but there's 6000 verying from $150-$4. His trailer was stuffed from all day digging clumps of our Daylilies. He then said "I'm not paying you anything." He got in his truck and backed his trailer out of our driveway and left. My husband and I don't believe in bringing theft to court. We sold the house and brought our favorite Daylilies he didn't take with us, but with 2 wheelchairs we only had room for 20 plus Lilium and bonsai.
We had a four year drought in Texas so are our daylilies, Lilium and bonsai almost dead but the hostas loved it this year, we've had more rain in town than any on record ever remember the garden was a lake for most of this year we now need to replace almost everything. Xeriscape again.
