Photo Gallery — Mainely Daylilies

Photo Gallery

Setting some good looking seed pods!

Hybridizing

Making crosses in the garden

Hybridizing

Where it all began

Creating The Gardens

This is what was in place of the Big Garden, weeds and sand!!

Big Garden 1.0

Creating The Gardens

This is The Big Garden 1.0, no daylilies yet………

Jenna and Raegan's Garden

Creating The Gardens

Jenna and Raegan make a garden around a tree……..then we start thinking about linking them all together!

Big Garden 2.0

Creating The Gardens

Linking the trees to make Big Garden 2.0

Big Garden 3.0

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Big Garden 3.0, doubling the back half!

Caring for the babies

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Big Garden 3.0 Addition

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Big Garden 4.0

Creating The Gardens

Big Garden 4.0, loaded with babies!!

Yard Art in Big Garden

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Groundbreaking on Fenway Park Garden

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Fought the Ditch Lilies and crusty layers of compacted sand and weeds!

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Fenway Park Garden 1.0

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Round 1 Planting in Fenway

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Expanded garden with stepping stones and new plantings

So naturally we made it bigger and bigger, set some stepping stones

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Fenway Park Garden finished — stepping stones, solar lights, and yellow blooms

Fenway Finished…….for now 😃

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So we moved onto the front yard and made a little garden which started as a circle, but turned into The Egg 1.0

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First expansion of The Egg 2.0 — adding compost and digging in

First expansion of The Egg 2.0, add compost, grab a shovel 🪏

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Expansion day — big delivery arrives, The Egg 3.0 takes shape

Expansion day…..on the day the big delivery happened, The Egg 3.0

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Babies planted in The Egg — daylily starts and mums in fresh black mulch

Babies planted, Happy Egg

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Side Garden 1.0 — new garden bed on the other side of the house with white stone

Decided we needed one on the other side! And yes, someone was a little quick with the trigger on the white stone 😉 Side Garden 1.0

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The culprit caught in the act — shovel in hand digging the Side Garden

I found the culprit! 😂

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Side Garden 1.0 planted with colorful flowers and white stone edging along the house

Side garden 1.0 complete? Nah!

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Red gerbera daisy blooming in fresh black mulch — Side Garden waiting on daylily delivery

cute little garden, still waiting on the massive orders of daylilies

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Smiling gardener planting daylily babies in fresh black mulch — expansion complete

expansion complete and babies planted!!

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Side Garden 2.0

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Front door area with wooden deck stairs and bare dirt — the Little Garden before it began

front door Little Garden area, moving in

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Bare sandy dirt beside front deck stairs with one lone purple flower — Little Garden ready for a shovel

You know the deal, grab a shovel and get after it!

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Finished Little Garden by front deck stairs — vintage milk can planter with black-eyed Susans, rock border edging, fresh black mulch, and young daylily babies

Finished product. Not sure how to expand this one, maybe up?…….🤔

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Gardener in pink shorts and bare feet posing beside the house — ready to get to work on the Side Garden

sometimes it takes pink shorts, bare feet and a little leg to get the job done!

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Freshly mulched garden bed along the house foundation with young flowering plants just getting established

finished product last year

Creating The Gardens

Gardener standing among towering 8ft cosmos plants that never flowered in the front garden — pink portulaca and white bacopa blooming at the base

Only the 8ft Cosmos that didn't flower really enjoyed the front garden last year

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Daylily seed pod — plump black seeds from a successful cross

Hybridizing

Spacecoast Big Frosty

Introduction and Cultivation

Spacecoast Big Frosty. The packages and orders started off slow enough, always late in the day. Kind of went big ordering plants from all over. This was in the first package, Spacecoast Big Frosty. Look at that beefy fan!! And two others came along for the ride! Huge win!!

Plethora daylily double fan from Dooley Gardens with massive exposed root system

Plethora — Dooley Gardens. This is what a double fan looks like from Pat! Unreal!

Introduction and Cultivation

This is what the double fan I bought at Dooley Gardens looks like!! Unreal roots, number and generosity 🙏

Stacked UPS delivery boxes on the driveway — Spacecoast, Bell's Daylilies, Ladybug by Dan Hansen

The Big Delivery

Introduction and Cultivation

It all happened so fast…….Spacecoast, Bell's Daylilies, Ladybug by Dan Hansen, just stacks of plants late one afternoon!! Christmas on Steroids!

Daylily fans soaking in colorful Home Depot buckets on the lawn before planting

The Soak

Introduction and Cultivation

All the plants took a little dip, then the planting started 💚

Woman smiling while planting daylilies in a fresh garden bed at night

Welcome Home

Introduction and Cultivation

Welcome Home 💚

Two people wearing red headlamps smiling at night after planting daylilies until midnight

Working Late

Introduction and Cultivation

Busted out the headlamps and stayed out planting till midnight!

Child's dirty hands holding a daylily fan with Bell's Daylilies tag at night

Not on a school night!

Introduction and Cultivation

The kiddos enjoyed getting extra dirty planting, loving it!

Daylily fans soaking in red, white, and yellow buckets next to open USPS boxes and brown paper packaging on the lawn

It Happened Again Three Days Later

Introduction and Cultivation

A huge order from Mark at Abundant showed up, back to planting!!!

Woman smiling while planting daylilies in a fresh garden bed surrounded by labeled fans and pink mums

In Her Happy Place ☺️

Introduction and Cultivation

Circular garden bed with yellow, orange, and pink mums surrounded by newly planted labeled daylily fans in black mulch

Some Heavy Hitters

Introduction and Cultivation

The Egg morphed into a circle, but we needed the room, some really great cultivar in this garden.

Young girl smiling next to a tall sunflower growing in a black mulch garden bed in front of a house

Sunflower Friends

Introduction and Cultivation

Garden bed under construction around large pine trees with black mulch, wheelbarrow, and newly planted daylilies with freshly dug border trench

Meanwhile…

Introduction and Cultivation

……we were planting and creating the final addition to make Big Garden 4.0, panicking we wouldn't have enough room for all the orders to come including two more from Spacecoast!

Young girl with braids crouching barefoot over a fresh mound of dark garden soil in the backyard

Winni gets in the Action!

Introduction and Cultivation

SC Knight Moves daylily fans soaking in a blue bucket with black mulch garden bed in background

One more Spacecoast order for good measure.

Introduction and Cultivation

John Kinnebrew was so accommodating and generous, just great dealing with them!

Freshly planted garden bed with daylilies, mums, and stepping stones around a tree

Done Planting for 2026

Introduction and Cultivation

Well, we still have some bulbs to plant but…..

Introduction and Cultivation