Click here to download our 2008 Special Offer Click here to download the 2008 Catalogue Click here to download our order form Dear Daylily Enthusiast March 2008 I said it last year and it just has to be repeated - I cannot believe where the time goes. Welcome to my sixth daylily plant list. I am trying to expand my catalogue by including a few more varieties each year and whilst many of these are currently being offered in limited numbers the good news is that there is an ever increasing number of cultivars growing on and bulking up in the garden which should shortly become available. Even so the varieties listed represent just a small sample of the daylilies that can be seen growing here. If there is a plant not listed that you particularly want please do not hesitate to ask. Many visitors who call in the Summer leave a wish list with me and I am always more than happy to try and fulfil wishes as the plants become available. As anyone who knows me will confirm I remain a daylily fanatic and as I always say once you have seen a few of these wonderful plants I think it is easy to become hooked. We are now over 1400 cultivars of which over 450 are part of my National Collection of spider and unusual form daylilies. Some of these are very new to this country and we continue to trial them for weather hardiness and performance in this country. What a pleasure it is! We had quite a productive year last year building 2 new beds and extending others enabling us to plant over 300 daylilies which will not have to exist in pots any longer. They are saying thank you by producing lovely side fans as I write but as last year it seems awfully early. It is great to see the new dormants peeping out of the ground but I hope they don’t get too carried away. So we have just about finished our major labouring and hope to put a few finishing touches to the display areas this Spring. It will be lovely to sit back and watch them growing. We also now have standing room for an extra 1,000 pots thanks to Terry’s labouring over the Winter. He cleared a big area of brambles and the odd small sucker from our huge aspen, (Terry says they weren’t small and who’s the sucker? Poor thing!.). One of our resident robins was very grateful and a permanent helpmate. This will also make room for our seedlings the latest of which are at present nestling in the greenhouse. We should have quite a few at flowering size this year and as you can see we have featured a couple of the ones we really liked last year in the catalogue. We will be opening as usual this year for the local hospice and have increased our opening times so that I can do what I like most, showing the daylilies off to our visitors. The times are posted in the catalogue and we hope that you will find time to come and visit us this year and although we cannot promise better weather we hope that giving you more choice of times may encourage you to call. Now to the catalogue. I am not a very large concern and on the whole the daylilies refuse to be hurried so in some cases I do not have many plants available of the ones listed. This means that they will be sent out/sold on a first come, first served basis. I send out my orders bare rooted from mid March to June subject to weather conditions and again during September. Most of the daylilies I am offering are growing on in 2 litre pots at present. However, because I am still rather small I regret that a few plants may be single fans only. To hopefully compensate for this for orders over £50 I will be offering bonus plants to the value of 15% of the order or alternatively a 10% cash discount. Please state your preference and pick bonuses where appropriate. I am afraid, however, that because of the very small numbers on the limited list I would please ask you not to pick anything off here as your bonus. You will see that the prices of the plants vary a great deal. In some cases these are cultivars that I think are being offered for the very first time and the prices do reflect their rarity and availability in this country. As far as the limited list is concerned if you do not order early it would probably be advisable to contact me first by telephone or e-mail to check that these are still available. Below I have posted a picture of the nursery as it was last year which I hope will give you some idea of the size and quality of the plants grown here. As usual I am again making a special offer of some of my older varieties of which I have larger numbers. Although lots of you have probably already got these, they might form a good basis for a new collection or perhaps just fill in a few gaps in your garden. As far as my mail order efforts go it is very reassuring and encouraging to receive all your lovely e-mails, cards and letters to tell me how happy you are with your plants and how well they are growing. It is really kind of you to bother. Well, as ever we have lots to look forward to for the coming season. One media person from the RHS told me that this was going to be the year of the daylily. There certainly seems to be an uplift in publicity this year starting with the choice of a daylily as the masthead of the Chelsea Flower Show. Very discerning! So I hope you enjoy the catalogue – it was great fun putting it together. As usual it gave me a chance to spend many hours looking at our pictures which have all been taken here over the last few years. I hope looking at them will give you as much pleasure and I hope that it may inspire you to put some of these lovely plants in your garden and also to come and visit us to see our collection. With very best wishes Pollie