Oakville Farm Daylily Blog

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Author Unknown

Are you formulating your garden ideas? Vegetable garden ... Water garden ... Rock garden ... Flower garden ... Oooooh, just to name a few.

Was talking to an inqusitive gardener yesterday about daylilies. They think that daylilies only come in the color "Orange". They do come in orange, however, with over 60,000 daylily cultivars, the colors are almost endless. From creamy white to light dusty pink to coral red to lavender to yellow to red orange to reddish black. The color scheme for daylilies is so wide!!! With no true white nor true blue daylilies, hybridizers are working feverishly to correct this. Never know what new colors are on the horizon.

We are in Region 15 of the American Hemerocallis Society, which includes North and South Carolina. The summer meeting will be held in Morganton, North Carolina in June ... the beautiful mountains and foothills. If you are in or around that area, might want to make plans to visit daylily farms. Home grown daylilies, directly out of the field are a true treasure.

When you are near us, Oakville Farm, Macon, North Carolina, 1122 Wise Five Forks Rd. .... stop on by. We have over 200 daylily cultivars to peruse, goats to see, dogs to throw balls for and one lazy kitty!

Hope you have a good day. And until next time, Happy Gardening.

PS. Harvested first asparagus this week. Oh, the first treat of the year. Love it raw, grilled, boiled, broiled. What is your favorite? Yum