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| 1986 catalog. Setauket, New York address. |
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| 1990 catalog. First Floyd Cove color cover to the catalog. Cover daylily: Ptarmigan (Pat Stamile) |
One of the most exciting things every fall for me has been getting the Floyd Cove Nursery catalog. Daylily catalogs were the big thing every fall and winter up until around 2010, when the cost was just too expensive and websites became more popular. Floyd Cove Nursery still mails out a catalog every fall in spite of the rising costs. The owners of Floyd Cove Nursery in the beginning were Pat and Grace Stamile. Pat said that he started growing daylilies in about 1974, then started hybridizing in 1978 and started Floyd Cove Nursery in 1980. It was a general nursery with emphasis on Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and perennials especially focusing on iris, daylilies and hostas. The first Floyd Cove catalogs were just a sheet with a description and price. The first color catalogs to be used in the AHS were from Van Sellers at Iron Gate Gardens. Soon Bill Munson and Daylily World (David Kirchoff and Mort Morss) followed. Floyd Cove's first color catalog was in 1990 (pictured above) and there have been catalogs all the way through our current year. Ownership of Floyd Cove changed around 2009 from Pat and Grace Stamile to Guy and Karen Pierce. In 2014-2015 the garden changed addresses just a little bit down the road to it's current address at 1240 Enterprise Osteen road. Floyd Cove has always introduced cutting edged daylilies and many of the intros from both Pat Stamile and Guy Pierce are in many of my current intros and seedlings. Here are some of the many catalogs from over the years. I wasn't able to include the fall catalogs but there were fall catalogs up until around 2015. Hoping they bring back many great memories of daylilies past:
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| 1991 catalog. Cover daylily: Joe Marinello (Pat Stamile) |
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| 1992 catalog. Cover daylily: Baby Blues (Grace Stamile) Address changed to Sanford, Florida. |
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| 1993 Catalog. First catalog with color pictures on inside. Cover daylily: Admiral's Braid (Pat Stamile) |
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| 1994 catalog. Cover daylily: Royal Braid (Pat Stamile) |
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| 1995 catalog. Cover daylily: Seminole Wind (Pat Stamile) |
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| 1996 catalog. Cover daylily: Splendid Touch (Pat Stamile) |
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| 1997 catalog. Cover daylily: Magnificent Rainbow (Pat Stamile) Address changed to Enterprise, Florida |
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| 1998 catalog. Cover daylily: American Original (Pat Stamile) |
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| 1999 catalog. Cover daylily: Knights in White Satin (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2000 catalog. Cover daylily: Lake Effect (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2001 catalog. Cover daylily: Victorian Lace (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2002 catalog. Cover daylily: Michael Miller (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2003 catalog. Cover daylily: Ageless Beauty (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2004 catalog. Cover daylily: Shores of Time (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2005 catalog. Cover daylily: Leslie Renee (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2006 catalog. Cover daylily: Judy Farquhar (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2007 catalog. First year larger format. Cover daylily: Born to Run (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2008 catalog. Cover daylily: Dr. Jerrold Corbett (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2009 catalog. Cover daylily: Orange Grove (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2010 catalog. Cover daylily: Bold Paint (Pat Stamile) |
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| 2011 catalog. Cover daylily: Watermelon Martini (Pat Stamile-Pierce) |
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| 2012 catalog. Cover daylily: When Royals Dream (Pat Stamile-Pierce) |
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| 2013 catalog. Cover daylily: Buffalo Thunder (Pat Stamile-Pierce) |
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| 2014 catalog. Cover daylily: Picasso's Intrigue (Guy Pierce) |
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| 2015 catalog. Cover daylily: Halloween Effect (Guy Pierce) |
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| 2016 catalog. Cover daylily: Galactic Green (Guy Pierce) |
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| 2017 catalog. Cover daylily: Master and Bold Ruler (Guy Pierce) |
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| 2018 catalog. |
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| 2019 catalog. Cover daylily: Berry Ambitious (Guy Pierce) |
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| 2020 catalog. Cover daylily: Tumbleweed (Guy Pierce) |
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| 2021 catalog. Cover daylily: My Favorite Martian (Guy Pierce) |
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| 2022 catalog. Cover daylily: Sonic Tempo (Guy Pierce) |
Special thanks to Pat and Grace Stamile for always showing me around their garden over the years. A special thanks to Guy and Karen Pierce for showing me the same hospitality as well. Special thanks must also go to Curt Hanson for sharing all these old catalogs with me. It's been fun looking back at daylily history. Hope to post another interview before Christmas. Working on it. This was a fun segment to put together. Stop back soon.
