Daylilies of North Carolina

11/14/2017

WATER MILL GARDENS... the daylilies of Dan & Jane Trimmer

Working on some daylily web design this week. Just finished updating the Water Mill Gardens site featuring the 2018 introductions of Dan & Jane Trimmer at http://trimmerdaylily.com.

     Hello again to all of our daylily friends and garden visitors. How is it that already another year has come and gone? We continue to be blessed due to the many good friends we have made in the wonderful world of daylilies. Just as in the past Jane and I pursue our hybridizing goals without rega...

07/01/2016

FREE DAYLILIES from Daylilies of North Carolina. The first 20 garden visitors on Saturday, July 2, 2016, will receive a free daylily plant for simply visiting the garden. The garden opens at 9:00 AM and will stay open until at least 3:00 PM. We are now past peak bloom, but we are also offering our best deals of the season on the finest daylilies anywhere in the area. The garden is located at 1620 Wait Avenue (Hwy 98) in Wake Forest :)

06/28/2016

It is raining very hard in the garden right now but we still have some pretty flowers today.

06/21/2016

2016 Daylily Blooms & Ale Festival at Daylilies of North Carolina. This Saturday. Along with all the wonderful daylilies, great weather, and an abundance of friends; we'll also have plenty of craft ale in the kegs along with some great homemade ale, too.

06/21/2016

Check out these incredible tetraploid daylilies from Cindy. Her first seedlings are blooming this year and she has some incredible stunners. It is great having Cindy in the garden hybridizing along side me.

06/19/2016

This evening we removed all of the day's blooms from the garden. We do this every evening so that you can be greeted with fresh daylily blooms when you visit. Come see us tomorrow between 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM. I'll have a free daylily gift plant for you with each purchase!!

06/17/2016

It's gonna be a great weekend to enjoy the daylilies. Visit us this weekend at Daylilies of North Carolina. I'll in the garden this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Here is sampling of what was blooming yesterday.

06/15/2016

Beautiful daylilies are blooming right now in the garden. This week I will have the garden open on Wednesday (9:30 -2:00), Thursday (9:00 to 2:00), Saturday (9:00 to 2:00), and Sunday (9:00 to 2:00). That is June 15, 16, 18, & 19. Not sure of Friday hours yet. Now is the best time to select new daylilies for your garden :) The garden is located at 1620 Wait Avenue in Wake Forest. You will see my daylily sign on the road.

06/11/2016

Early morning in the garden. We are now open to the public so come see us for our grand opening of the Year this weekend

06/10/2016

Great News!!! I am officially opening the daylily garden this weekend, June 11 & 12, 2016, from 9:00am till 2:00pm. Come early because we expect some high temperatures this weekend. I have a fantastic bloom going on right now. Experience a whole different kind of plant buying adventure from "A Guy and His Flowers." Or, just come and see the beauty of my own hybridized creations, and those of other famous daylily hybridizers. Daylilies of North Carolina is the area's only specialty daylily nursery!!!

05/31/2016

Carolina Starfish started blooming today!!! Currently available for only $45.00 for a double division.

05/31/2016

Here are a few of today's polymerous seedlings

05/30/2016

Three brand new polymerous seedlings on their maiden bloom. It is a great year for new the polymerous daylilies. I love the larger and more brightly colors flowers!

05/28/2016

Big Huge Polys will most likely be the name of my next daylily catalog!! Loving the seedlings that are blooming for the first time this year :)

05/28/2016

Huge day in the 1st time blooming bed. Check out these two HUGE maiden blooms, both on scapes showing to be 100% polymerous. I believe that both flowers are breakthroughs in polymerous breeding as our program continues advancing in size, substance, color, and form!

05/25/2016

Coming later this season is this dark and velvety high-percentage polymerous flower. I still need to select a name for it so that I can get it registered with the American Hemerocallis Society. I anticipate at least four more new 2016 poly introductions this year to accompany RACE WALKER and RIO OLYMPIAD.

05/25/2016

Only 2 single divisions of this huge new high-percentage polymerous daylily named RACE WALKER (Baxter 2016) are still available for 2016, and the plants are ready for immediate shipping to your garden!!

I registered RACE WALKER with the American Hemerocallis Society at 9.5" but it is not uncommon for it to bloom at 11" in my garden. The parentage is impeccable as it comes out of H. 'In Celebration of Life' X H. 'Runner Dude' guaranteeing its incredible size and brilliant coloring, and high polymerous nature.

It is a moderate increaser, so it is a wise investment at this time.
Also, a moderate pod setter with extremely viable pollen for the hybridizer. I continue to go for increasing the size of my flowers and RACE WALKER is the most important daylily in my arsenal for HUGENESS!!! Hence, the limited availability.

Here is the general description submitted to AHS: "Simply huge creamy pink petal base with flaring hot pink/red eye above a splashy chartreuse throat with strong mid-ribs displaying consistent polymerous nature and a bud builder." Also, registered at semi-evergreen with fragrance.

The one trait not mentioned anywhere is its ability to also throw petaloids which make it a valuable tool in your poly double breeding program. You should also expect some 5 X 5 blooms!!
Take your polymerous breeding program to the next level with RACE WALKER. Remember... size does matter and my flower is simply the biggest true high percentage daylily that has ever been made available!!

$125 plus $8 shipping. PayPal to [email protected]

03/17/2016

I am pleased to announce a very limited and extra special polymerous daylily introduction for 2016, that is called "RACE WALKER"

Only 10 plants are available of this incredibly HUGE poly that has more garden presence than any polymerous flower that I have ever registered. The first 5 plants of RACE WALKER are available for $100 each, the additional 5 plants are $150 each. I am retaining the remaining stock for my hybridizing program.

I registered RACE WALKER with the American Hemerocallis Society at 9.5" but it is not uncommon for it to bloom at 11" in my garden. The parentage is impeccable as it comes out of H. 'In Celebration of Life' X H. 'Runner Dude' guaranteeing its incredible size and brilliant coloring, and high polymerous nature.

It is a moderate increaser, so it is a wise investment at this time.
Also, a moderate pod setter with extremely viable pollen for the hybridizer. I continue to go for increasing the size of my flowers and RACE WALKER is the most important daylily in my arsenal for HUGENESS!!! Hence, the limited availability.

Here is the general description submitted to AHS: "Simply huge creamy pink petal base with flaring hot pink/red eye above a splashy chartreuse throat with strong mid-ribs displaying consistent polymerous nature and a bud builder." Also, registered at semi-evergreen with fragrance.

The one trait not mentioned anywhere is its ability to also throw petaloids which make it a valuable tool in your poly double breeding program. You should also expect some 5 X 5 blooms!!

Take your polymerous breeding program to the next level with RACE WALKER. Remember... size does matter and my flower is simply the biggest true high percentage daylily that has ever been made available!!

$100 plus $8 shipping for the first 5 flowers sold. The remaining 5 will be $150 plus $8 shipping. PayPal to [email protected]

01/21/2016

Probably one of my most anticipated new polymerous introductions... and it is now available. Order during the next 36 hours (before midnight on Friday Jan. 22) and it is only $75 for a single division. Tomorrow I will be submitting the registration data to AHS with the name RIO OLYMPIAD. This 100% polymerous flower simply has Olympian qualities all around. It's availability is limited and it is also a great hybridizing flower on top of having incredible garden presence. After this special introductory offer, the price will be $100. Shipping is an additional $8 and the plant will be shipped in early May.

01/14/2016

Winter Sale Special $65 for double fan (my 2015 & 2016 garden price is $100 for a single fan). Only 4 double divisions available at this price. Delivery early May 2016. PayPal accepted. Shipping is $8 for first plant then $3 for each additional plant shipped at same time.

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS. Do you want to grow a daylily that some hybridizer says has the ability to grow tall, or do you want to grow a daylily that is truly one of the tallest in existence?

Hemerocallis ‘Reaching New Heights’ is a tetraploid 2012 introduction.

H. 'Reaching New Heights'... (Baxter, 2011), Sdlg. #2tall, Tetraploid, 7 ½" bloom, 68" tall, dormant. Here we have a true giant in the daylily world. A flower that begs you to stand next to and have your picture taken with it. And you do not have to squat, or stand in a hole, or use a funny camera angle to show the height of this daylily. Modesty dictates that I register this beauty at 68" but in 2014 I measured scapes at 80". What's a full foot when we are talking about "reaching new heights?" I would rather tell you that it has wonderful fragrance, 7 ½" blooms, and fabulous mounds of foliage.... and it easily sets pods!

Parentage is H. 'Sears Tower' × H. 'Notify Ground Crew'

12/18/2015

Winter Sale Special $25 for double fan (regular price is $80). Only 5 double fans available at this price. Delivery early May 2016. PayPal accepted. Shipping is $8 for first plant then $3 for each additional plant shipped at same time.

Hemerocallis ‘Secret Agent Babe’ is a high percentage polymerous 2006 introduction.

H. 'Secret Agent Babe'... (Baxter, 2006), Seedling #B05-350, Diploid, 7½", 28". Pinched crispate unusual form with top-notch pedigree (H. 'Carolina Octopus' × H. 'Carolina Flying Poly Possum'). I registered the flower as 75% polymerous, however, during the 2011 to 2015 bloom seasons it was 100% polymerous.
When I relocated the garden in the spring of 2007, I thought I had lost H. 'Secret Agent Babe'. I was so disappointed until I rediscovered it during the 2011 bloom season in a bed of plants that had lost their tags. Now, in the fall of 2012 and six years after official introduction, I feel that it is being introduced again for the first time.

The narrowness of petal is from the pod parent H. 'Carolina Octopus'. The pronounced mid-rib creating the crispation and slightly red eye is from the pollen parent H. 'Carolina Flying Poly Possum'. The red eye can be very faint at times but is never heavily pronounced. The base color is a very clean yellow and actually comes from both parents despite the fact that the "Octopus" is red. The yellow flower H. 'Almost Paradise' is the pollen parent of the "Octopus".

H. 'Secret Agent Babe' is mid-season bloomer, repeats, and is dormant. Definitely a plant to have in your arsenal if you are breeding for polymerous daylilies.

12/18/2015

Winter Sale Special $40.00 for double fan (regular price is $85). Only 4 double fans available at this price. Delivery is early May 2016. PayPal accepted. Shipping is $8 for first plant then $3 for each additional plant shipped at same time.

Hemerocallis ‘Good Girls Do’ is a 90% polymerous 2013 introduction.

H. ‘Good Girls Do’ is a vivid and brilliant red drawing its vibrancy from its pollen parent H. ‘Moosa Pa Loosa.’ The form of this high percentage polymerous beauty is attributed to its pod parent H. ‘Redefining Genetics’ and paternal grandparent on both sides H. ‘Carolina Octopus.’ The slight chevron/eye is passed along from its fraternal grandparents on both sides which are H. ‘Chief Four Fingers’ and H. ‘Moana Gloria May.’

Genetically, H. ‘Good Girls Do’ is the pinnacle of a polymerous hybridizer’s fantasy turned reality. Not only does this cultivar have multi-generations of Baxter poly breeding, it also incorporates the outside influence of both the late Ned Roberts of spider and unusual form fame and Laurie Higgins from Australia.

Definitely a marvel for hybridizers as this cultivar is pollen and pod fertile, however, its value as a garden plant cannot be underestimated. H. ‘Good Girls Do’ is hardy as a semi-evergreen and it is a vigorous grower. Its 7 ½ inch fragrant blooms sprout on nicely branched 30” scapes just as the peak season starts… continuing into the summer on rebloom scapes. Typical of its lineage, the foliage is thin yielding blooms larger than you would expect.