Daylilies and Iris

The daylilies and iris are in bloom, after a long season of anticipation. We got several cultivars of Iris from Red Lane Daylilies last year, and placed them in the middle of the daylily rows. The colors are spectacular, and set each other off. The daylilies, or hemerocallis, are wonderful shades of yellow, orange, and pink. The intense purple and blues of the iris beckons from afar.
Love the harbour in the background behind the flowers. The Merigomish Harbour provides a lot of moisture for the fields in summer, and an extremely harsh climate in winter, ensuring only the hardiest of daylilies for Alloa Farm:).
Iris bearded collection of 6 - 6 Plants

Daylilies Are Our Passion

Here are a few of our seedlings from 2010.See His Glory x Fluff And Stuff
Winter Memories x Puffer Fish
Bordello Queen x Bass Gibson

Daylilies are our passion, and new daylily seedlings in the garden are our pride and joy. The feeling of anticipation when awaiting the opening of the fat daylily bud for the first time never gets old. Every day during daylily season there is always something new to see. How fortunate we are to have such a glorious passion!!!:)

Spring Is In The Air In Nova Scotia

Spring is in the air. Although the fields are laden with snow, the light of the day has changed and brings an air of anticipation for the new life that will burst from the ground in a few short months.

We live along the beautiful Merigomish Harbor in Nova Scotia. Corn grows in the fields right to the shore. Daylilies are our passion, and gradually the cornfields will be replaced by fields of daylilies. One by one the fields will be filled with our hybrid seedlings, and we will be able to share our dream with all those travelling along the beautiful Sunrise Trail.

Hemerocallis~Blue Eyed Whites

Destined To See

Delta Blues

It's been a busy season in the garden, with such a fantastic display of daylilies. These are a few of my blue eyed whites. Some of them have very interesting eye zones. The whites aren't exactly white, but different shades of light cream. I tend to cross these blue eyed whites with each other.
Gerda Brooker

Delightful Daylilies.

Here are some of the daylilies blooming this week in my garden. I'm so pleased with their beautiful blooms and garden presence. Mississippi Blues

Ultimate Fantasy

Country Bumpkin

Arctic Lace

Victorian Lace

Golden Tentacles

Pink Ambrosia

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Maiden Bloom

This is such an exciting time of year. First daylily seedling to bloom this year was this two year old seedling( seedling #1~top two photos), blooming for the first time ever today, and I was very pleasantly surprised! The cross is from pod parent Pure And Simple x pollen parent Spectral Elegance. The color of the flower reminded me of orange sherbet, and I could see it shining brightly from the other side of the yard. I feel like a new mother:). And the fun is just beginning! Its sibling( seedling #2~photo of bud) will bloom for the first time ever tomorrow:).

Hemerocallis~Oceans Eleven

Daylily Oceans Eleven, Petit 2004. Blue is a color that's difficult to achieve in daylilies ~ can you see it in the eye? Perhaps more of a purple, however in the right light it's definitely there. Please pardon the missing pollen:).

Daylily~~Liege And Lief

I was greeted by a beautiful sight first thing this morning. Liege And Lief, a daylily from Art Gallery Gardens showed it's beautiful face, glittering tentacles and all.I'm saving it's pollen to dab on other blue eyed pink daylilies this summer.

Rachel Lambertson

This is another daylily from Art Gallery Gardens in Florida. It's a very pretty ruffled pink with a purple edge and eye. It put up a late scape which started to bloom late in September of last year and therefore was brought inside to avoid frost damage. We were able to gather the pollen and freeze it for future hybridizing efforts. I'm so looking forward to spreading this pollen.

Freudian Slip

Freudian Slip is a beautiful daylily hybridized by Curt Hanson in 1999. It's got such a wonderful name it's hard not to get psychoanalytical about it.

Magnificent Hummingbird

It won't be long now before daylily Magnificent Hummingbird will be seen fluttering throughout the garden. It has a beautiful delicate bloom that resembles a bird in flight. It's another of the wonderful blue eyed daylilies hybridized by L Lambertson of Art Gallery Gardens in Florida

Song Writer

Since my garden is brown, and the only things I have growing inside on my windowsills are hundreds and hundreds of daylily seedlings, I must resort to posting a picture of another one of my favorite daylilies... Song Writer, hybridized by Stamile in 2003. This daylily is gorgeous with a huge 6.75 inch deep rose colored bloom and a citron green throat. I also love the name of this daylily, and consider it to be very fitting:).

Daylily: Nancy Billingslea

I received this beautiful daylily as a bonus last year. How lucky is that?!! The blooms were huge and the softest salmon pink color. I love it. There's always enough room for another daylily in the garden:).

Daylily: Omelet Ruffles

Eggs anyone? This daylily was hybridized by Reckamp-Klehm 2003. It's a dormant tetraploid.

It's a wonderful daylily with an interesting edge. It has a wonderful pale yellow porcelain bloom, that reminds me of omelets every time I see it. Yummm.

Daylily- Soul On Ice

Soul On Ice daylily by Curt Hanson. I like the pretty pink color of this daylily,and how it gently blends with the lavender eye. I enjoy collecting from this hybridizer. He has hardy daylilies for my zone, and they have the most interesting names!

Daylilies

The latin name for daylily, hemerocallis, means "beauty for a day". Each flower blooms for one day only. Fortunately each scape produces enough blooms to keep the plant blooming for weeks or much longer. The daylily is generally a hardy garden plant. There are thousands of hybrids to chose from, with new ones added each year.

Belle Cook

daylily Belle Cook

Alas, Belle Cook did not survive it's second zone 5 maritime winter. I have many seedlings from it however, crossed with a more hardy northern cultivar.

Bluegrass Music

daylily Bluegrass Music

One of my favorite daylilies, it bloomed inside this winter by the patio door.Needless to say, I collected all the pollen and froze it for future use this summer.I pollinated it with Destined To See pollen, and got three pods that are now maturing. Lucky me! It's a cross that I'm hoping will make beautiful blue eyed seedlings!

My Daylily Distraction

I've become distracted by my daylilies.

Destined To See
Hologram
Lavender Blue Baby
Bluegrass Music
Alien Contact


And what a wonderful distraction it has been!

My gardens used to consist of a well balanced mix of perennials, shrubs and trees. More recently however, since discovering hybridizing, my daylilies outnumber the rest. Many gardeners often become passionate about a particular plant in their garden. Of course, if you're a little bit obsessional, you're probably more at risk:).

Here are a few of my favorites:(from the top)Destined To See, Hologram, Lavender Blue Baby, Bluegrass Music, and Alien Contact.

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