Hi everyone. Thanks to all our garden guests to such a nice summer again. Here are some new 2009 garden photos from Hardy Daylily Garden. Enjoy.

Hardy Daylily Garden Front Garden

One of the Sculptures in the Hardy Daylily Garden

Hardy Daylily Garden Side Garden

Side Garden Photo

The Hardys in the Garden

Here are photos from this 2009 summer of some of our seedlings and named varieties of Daylilies. These plants from Hardy Daylily Garden are bred to do well in CT, MA, and NY.

Hardy Apricot Daylily Seedling

Hardy Creme Eyed Daylily Seedling

Hardy Double Eyed Daylily Seedling

G Hardy 12 Inch Spider Daylily Seedling

Goshen Double Yellow Daylily, one of our named varieties

G Hardy Red Seedling

Litchfield Pink Magic Daylily, a Daylily variety we bred and named

New Hartford Daylily, a Daylily we bred / named

Red Daylily seedling

Hardy Red Spider Daylily seedling

Our Rhinebeck Night named variety

Our named Thomaston Daylily

We’ve had quite a lot of late bloom in the garden and nice comments from visitors. We’ve decided to keep the garden open one more weekend this summer, August 13-16, 2009. Updated garden hours and info are here. We hope to see you in the garden!

Right now we have spectacular, peak bloom (in our opinion of course) at the Hardy Daylily Garden. We are located in Falls Village, Connecticut and open three more weekends this summer. Click here for garden info and hours. Below is a photo of part of our garden in peak bloom. We hope to see you in the garden!

The Hardy Daylily Garden is opening Thursday July 2, 2009. We will have quite a lot of our early daylilies blooming then, so come visit the garden. Garden information is here.

We have just posted our 2009 Hardy Daylily Garden hours, information, and map. We are located in Falls Village, Connecticut and open selected times in the summer of 2009. Click here for 2009 information. We look forward to seeing you in the garden.

During these winter months, I thought I’d share a good book you may want to read about Daylilies as you await the upcoming season. The New Encyclopedia of Daylilies - More Than 1700 Outstanding Selections is a great read, and resource. Of the almost hundred thousand named Daylilies now out there, this book features 1700 varieties. There are a good number of beautiful images plus descriptive copy you can enjoy in this book. If you’re caring for and growing Daylilies as a hybridizer, home grower, or even expert garden center, this book should be a pleasure to read again and again.

This weekend is going to be great late peak bloom at the Hardy Daylily Garden in Connecticut. We’re open 9 - 5, rain or shine. We look forward to seeing you in the garden.

Here are care instructions when planting and caring for Daylilies.

1. Buy the Daylily in person as a best choice or as a second choice have it shipped bare root to you.
2. If it is bare root, soak the roots in water for a few hours before planting. If you bought it in person and it has soil on the roots, water it.
3. Choose a sunny location with no less than one third of a day of sun.
4. Dig a hole two by two feet. Place either good rich soil in the hole or manure.
5. If the Daylily has dirt already on the roots, leave enough room in the hole for the root ball. Place the plant in the hole.  If it does not have dirt on the roots, make a 3×3 inch mound in the bottom of the hole. Spread the roots out over the mound.
6. Cover the plan with soil and gently pack down. The spot where the roots join the fans (growth) should be at the top of the soil level.
7. Water the plant.
8. Every week, fertilize with an evenly balanced fertilizer. Water a couple of other times during the week with fresh water.

The Hardy Daylily Garden is now in peak bloom in Connecticut. There are thousands of Daylilies blooming so make sure to visit!