Lewis Daylily Garden: November 2023

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Striped daylilies from the 2023 season

Tabatha Gilyard seedling (Shallow Ford Daylily Farm)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Are you ready? Here it comes. The segment that you all have been waiting for...striped daylilies from the 2023 season. As I was collecting photographs from various hybridizers, it became evident that I was going to need to break this down into 2 parts. The first part here will be daylilies with that Undefinable style of breeding. This look has become extremely popular and it would seem more and more people are doing it. So with nothing further let me continue with the picture show:

Valentina Gripas seedling

Rich Howard seedling

Sunny with a chance of Wine (Rich Howard)

Unpredictable (Rich Howard)

Starman (Rich Howard) Photo by Steve Todd

Rich Howard seedling

Mike Holmes seedling

Stone Palace Chaos (Evick)

Stone Palace Sparkler (Evick)

Guy Pierce seedling

Stuart Kendig seedling

Dave Mussar seedling N203

Dave Mussar 2024 intro

Steve Todd seedling

Confetti Splash (Steve Todd)

Dunder Mifflin (Paul K. Lewis future)

Yenok Kilimdzhyan seedling

Small World Tony the Tiger (Michael Miller)

Spectral Splatter (Nicole DeVito)

Alice's Paintbox (Judy Sparrow Sweeney)

WOW! Mic drop! Were you drooling just like I was? I saw so many of these that I wanted to incorporate into my program. Each photo is the property of each hybridizer and use without prior consent in prohibited. Ok, that was pretty amazing! BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!! That's right. A whole second segment that will show your striped daylilies in reds and violet stripes, and then a giant collection of Clown Pants (Todd) style of seedlings and intros. STAY TUNED! DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL! YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!

Friday, November 10, 2023

Guy Pierce's seedlings

Guy Pierce seedling

Since about 2009, Guy Pierce and Karen Pierce started the process of becoming the new owners of Floyd Cove Nursery in Deltona, Florida. Guy does the hybridizing and Karen handles the business aspect of Floyd Cove. Guy Pierce is 58 and has 523 registered daylily introductions to date. The daylily world was saddened to learn that Guy and Karen are in the process of selling their property and so Floyd Cove Nursery may be closing for good. I personally had hoped a daylily person would buy it and carry on the legacy of Floyd Cove, but so far that hasn't happened. I'm sure a lot of people would agree with me that getting the Floyd Cove catalog every winter was the highlight of their off season. Guy has really pushed the envelope forward with incredible achievements in patterned daylilies, toothies, and especially daylilies with huge green throats and eye zones. I have visited Floyd Cove Nursery over the years and always enjoyed growing Guy's daylilies. Here is a collection of Guy's most recent seedlings posted with his permission. Enjoy!

Guy Pierce seedling

WOW! What an incredible sampling of seedlings. Guy you have really pushed the envelope forward! Thank you Guy and Karen for all your contributions to the world of daylilies. Always a pleasure to see you and look forward to a continued friendship for years. All of the above photographs are the property of Guy Pierce and use without prior consent is prohibited. So, this kicks off another blog season. I hope to do at least 1 interview and keep a couple of my usual segments going. Stay tuned.

Lewis Daylily Garden

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Striped daylilies from the 2023 season

Friday, November 10, 2023

Guy Pierce's seedlings

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