I would start by finding your local daylily club on the AHS website, contact the club and see if they are having a plant sale. Then I would look to see which display/growers gardens may be close to where I live and take a visit. You don't need to spend very much to get alot. Do a search here on the forum by topic, ie lates, rebloomers, etc and see what others have commented about.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Here is a link which may be useful.

Here is a link that might be useful: AHS

I would do as suggested above, so that you can get an idea of what you like and don't like by way of bloom form and color. After doing some homework go to The Lily Auction, and look for plants that are in your price range, and meet your personal preferances.

Linda

Here is a link that might be useful: The Lily Auction

I highly recommend Eclectic Gardens. They sell fantastic plants, give great bonuses, and have a fairly large and very reasonably priced (most $10 or less per DF) selection.

Sunset Meadows Daylily Farm and Homestead Farms have good $5 ones. You can google them to get to their sites.

I have daylilies that I am wanting to divide. They do not have names though, but are pretty. I can send photos. You only have to send me a prepaid postage label.......

Thanks to everyone for the input. I'm checking the resources you suggested, and hope to have a decent collection in a few years. I'm looking forward to helping mew collectors get started.

Welcome to the world of Daylily Gardening. WARNING: This will become highly addictive!!!!!
Enjoy!!!
Kathy

I met the owner of Eclectic Gardens earlier this year at a plant sale. Really nice lady and the daylilies I purchased were huge. Her website is really informative too. I forgot her name but second the recommendation.

One thing to consider when buying online is shipping. A $5 daylily from one source might end up being more expensive than the same one for $10 somewhere else when you factor in shipping.

Daylilies are addictive.....

Alot of the mail order nurseries have sales in fall. Buy one get one free or for a reduced price. That isn't too far away to wait.

New Every Morning Daylilies has a number of them available for $4 each.

Ebay sometimes has mixed daylily sales, too. Usually, those are unamed lots.

Hi,

All I know is that you are in zone 3, but attached is a link to the AHS daylily sources for all the zones. Maybe if you could give a general area where you are located, someone could suggest a daylily garden that would be close enough for you to visit. Visiting a garden is always the best guideline to determine what you really like and I am sure there are more than just what is listed in the AHS website.

Hope you find some wonderful daylilies to put in your garden. If you order from the internet based on pictures, be sure to google the name and put in "daylily pics" behind it. That should give you some other websites that have pictures for that particular daylily.

Vickie

Here is a link that might be useful: AHS Daylily Sources

Daylilies from Gilbert Wild have always done well for me. The plants might not be huge when they arrive but they seem to thrive once they establish. I don't particularly love all of them, but I bought a lot of them when I was starting out and they've multiplied better than many that were more expensive. Just an idea.

I highly recommend the following on-line nurseries:

Eclectic Gardes (Oregon)
Sunset Meadow Dayily Gardens
Aren't I Pretty
New Every Morning

All of these vendors have reasonbly priced daylilies, and they are all, without exception, terrific people to do business with.

Marietta Gardens, while priced somewhat higher, does have some reasonable ones, too. These daylilies are top-notch, like the vendors.

Nancy

Has anyone else had experience with Gilbert Wild? The rices are very good, especially for the large collections. And he has a lot of Iris too, which I am also getting into more. How are they shipped? Any negative experiences with this company?