Bryan Culver worked as the 7th generation on the family dairy farm which was an original land grant from the Canadian Government until 23 years ago
when he became the manager of one of Canada's largest charities.
In the 80's, while commuting to the farm to help his aging mother with her many flower beds and gardens, he bought a few daylilies with the first being old STELLA DE ORO.
In 1993, a little test to see how to hybridize some of these daylilies became addictive and he continued to grow more and more seedlings.
Bryan registered his first daylilies in 1999 and he received his first AHS Honorable Mention Award for one of those earlier introductions, JADE PRINCESS.
Bryan educated us on how hybridizing is done, what to look for in a daylily, how to care for a daylily.....
.....some of us were smart and brought water ,umbrellas and summer hats.
3 daylilies were my favs, tho I loved them all .
Leandra Hockridge
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| love the purple eye and ruffles |
Spirit Fox
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| bright orange |
Sunshine Canyon
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| much more yellow than appears here. |
Now where in my tiny garden can I find room for a few of these beauties?
7 comments:
What a fun tour, thanks for sharing Rosemary. Hope you brought something home for your garden. :)
Looks like it was very interesting!
Oh, you can always find a place for a day lilly! This visit must have been a pleasure!
Rosemary, what a fun trip! I like how he doesn't amend the soil or fertilize to make the plants grow artificially, this way you can see how the plant does in just about any situation. So many colors to choose from! And I did the same thing, bought two more plants to put in our garden this week when we were on tour and I just said I was downsizing? Oh, dear, but they are gorgeous, aren't they, and so tempting.
What a great day you had, Rosemary! And that's the rub! Where can we find room?? ;-)
I've always had a soft spot for the Asiatic variety myself, though these are very tempting.
Loved the farm and those daylilies. Thank you for the wonderful tour.
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