The Wagon Train is Starting to Roll ....start with daylilies

Its been a busy time here at Shore Side Farm House...the house is much improved twelve years after taking on this humongous project. Even after 12 years the work does not stop. You gotta be dedicated to work to take on a 19th century home, nothing fixes itself and money doesn't grow on trees....if only!!! So you go through times of energy, times of sloth, times of funds and times of no funds at all.  The heart gets motivated, the body gets exhausted and the house gets improved, or put on the back burner, depending on how the wind blows. For a long time the wind has been blowing us backwards! Our sails are filling and we are beginning to take on additional projects which have been in progress and which we will up here over the next few months....so subscribe and you will get our updates! Lots of pictures and ideas here on our site. We hope to see you again.

This lily is from my Grandma's house in NY state. She gave it to me in 1974 and she had cultivated it long before that.

Right now its daylily time at Shore Side Farm House. We are blessed with a plethora of daylilies....actually it wasn't a blessing. It was a plan! There wasn't a daylily on the place when we bought it. Amazing as it is a house that is nearly 150 years old and native daylilies are a hearty creature, you pretty much can't kill them!  But we have added lots of varieties tall and short. Some were brought with us from New York and have done well. Other disappeared never to be seen and yet others were imported from Home Depot...where I must say I have bought some beautiful lilies like the pink and purple one above.

I call this my lemon lily (above). Grandma offered it to me when I bought my first house in 1974 and it has been with me since then. Moving from New York to Maryland 12 years ago.  This is a tall variety. It has a wonderful lily fragrance that can be smelled across the yard The color is a rich full yellow, no shyness here. This one is a star. It has a beautiful fine long thin dark blue green leaf

This photo shows the growth pattern of the pink flower on top of the page. It is a hearty bloomer with good drought tolerance and a full head of blooms...not a great picture but it shows the vitality of this variety

This one to the right is about the most prolific daylily you will ever plant. It is a Stella D'Doro variety and it considered a great border plant. It blooms all summer, most prolific early on and then sporatically through the summer. It is very hearty and colorful, a good choice for a novice gardener.

daylily with sundrops make a great swarth of yellow

Stellla D'Oro variety in first bloom of the year

Daylilies are easy to divide and multiply, Simply dig up the plant gently and separate the plant systems which in this case are an orange tuber. Each one will grow a plant if cared for after dividing.