Hi Marian,

Here are a few places that have good prices: 1) Aren't I Pretty 2) New Every Morning 3) Cottage Gardens 4) Sunset Meadows; I have just placed a huge order from Sunset Meadows, upon the recommendations of others. Can't tell you yet about them. The others are all good to deal with. I had, in my opinion, a really bad experience with Daylily Haven in Aberdeen MS, and cannot recommend this source at all.

Your best daylilies will come from these sources: Christie's Daylilies, Maryott, and Marietta Gardens. They are not cheap, but not ridiculously expensive like some of the others.

I suggest you make a list of some cultivars you would like to acquire, and then check the price at every daylily place you can find on the internet. It is quite revealing. You will be amazed at the price differences....sometimes $30, 40, or even up to $50! One particular daylily place really gouges their customers with shipping charges.

Me, I stay mostly in the $5-10 range, but I did spend some money on some really good ones to be used as the primary moving force in my hybridizing.

I did do a thorough check at Tinker's website to make sure what I bought was pod/pollen fertile. If it wasn't listed as a parent there, I didn't buy it, at least not yet.

In the end, you get what you pay for, of course. What I spent at Maryott's and Christie's was worth every penny of it. Brown's Ferry was pretty good, too.

Nancy

Thanks for all the wonderful places to shop Nancy. I will give them all a good look. It sounds wonderful to know all around hybridizing and everything. Shoot I got my first seeds off one of my plants and they are in the fridge as we speak. I was going to take them out and give it a shot a growing them sometime this week.

I've read some about growing them from seed. I have no ideal if I can, but I would like to try. Do you know of anyone that would sell some of their seeds off some of their older plants. I just want to have fun and try growing some and seeing what happens. Like I said I'm new and don't really know what I'm getting into.

I am a flower nut and have been all my life. I just recently fell head over heels in love with daylilies. I had no ideal they had so many colors, shapes, size and so forth. Like I said before, all I ever saw around here was the same old yellow and orange ones from years ago.

Now I'm hooked and I really can't afford to be. We are on a fixed income.

Happy Gardening,
And Thanks again for the information.
Marian

I've had excellent luck with Valley of the Daylilies in Ohio. Each Fall when they put many of their varieties on sale, I place an order and they arrive in great shape. This year mine are already planted and some have sprouted new fans. Check them out. You will have to request a listing of their Fall discounts.

Here is a link that might be useful: Valley of the Daylilies