Both web sites are just darling! Sounds like a serious road trip! I'm volunteering a bunch of high school kids over at the middle school for grounds clean-up Saturday morning.

When were you thinking about leaving? Let me think about this.

I'm not sure what time; we are rendezvousing in Oxford. But I'll let you know as soon we decide!

Alison,
There are closer places to Columbus than Oxford and Dan Bachman's. I've not been to the one at Oxford, but Dan's a friend.

There is Yost's in Pataskala, as well as Lynd's at 310 and Morse.

Fitzpatrick's in Lithopolis, just SE of Columbus is another great place.

check out www.daylilytrader.com for a list of Ohio daylily growers. Lynd's isn't on there (he's not an AHS member either) but you can't miss him if you go to 310 and Morse near Pataskala. He may have a web page if you search for Mitch Lynd and Daylily.

Yosts and Fitzpatricks are my favorites in Central Ohio...along with Warrell's, but Warrell's is closed already for the year.

You can email Yosts and Fitzpatrick's from the daylilytrader site.

You can also go to the AHS site, www.daylilies.org and click on "AHS display Gardens" then on the next page, click on Region 2 (you may have to scroll down to get to this).... up comes a list of daylily gardens whose job it is to have visitors and teach about daylilies..... Fitzpatrick's and Yosts are on there, as well as a lot more - Bachman's, others around Dayton.... Most display gardens also sell their excess divisions.

Check it out!

Jules

Wish I could join you...but, I am not available to go this weekend. Have fun and let us know what you get!

...Beverly

Thanks daylilyfan; I'll check them out.

It's not daylilies in general, tho; it's a specific cultivar that my sister's looking for. The Oxford farm has it and is only an hour's drive for her from Cincinnati.

So -- we're digging at noon tomorrow. Can anyone recommend a great place to eat in Oxford?

Hey Alison,
I've discovered that everyone in our family has at least one daylily with their name! From "Alison" and "Alison's Blush" to "Our Susanna" and "Susanna's Delight" to "Duane [Martin]" to "Baron Frederick"--even "Chance," "Happy Chance," and "Fat Chance"! This opens up whole new worlds of a daylily family garden, don't you think? This could be a life's work, assembling all the varieties!

Coolness!

Has anyone done that? Plant a garden by cultivar names? I think that could be really fun.

(And less of a stretch than my planting "Alionushka" clematis!)

I have been to Top O' The Hill many many times. Before you go, I think they closed for the season on Auguest 1. I was up there last week in July and I think they are done for the year.

The amount of plant that you get for your money is amazing. My friend and I went up and pooled resources to buy a bunch of plants. We figured we would each take half the plants and then once they were ready to divide, swap, so we would both have all varieties. Turns out the plants were so big when we picked them up that we could divide them before they were ever planted. That was last summer, and this year they all bloomed beautifully.

Another thing I like about their place is they have the orphan plants - the little bulbs with one fan that fall off when they are digging or dividing. They sell those for 50 cents. Of course you don't know the variety, but if you just want beauty, you could have a $50 variety for less than a buck. I usually take a bloom back up with me the next year and try to match it up so I know the name.

Well, we went Saturday and had a great time. The family's biggest garden junkies, all armed with credit cards, and not a responsible adult in sight....

We went (originally) just to pick up a few "My Hope" daylilies. {{gwi:1073426}}
My mother picked up a "Bob Norris" -- a clear bright yellow with incredibly thick petals, and a Joan Senior, pretty creamy pink. I also got an Oriental Ruby:
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Sunday was their last day for the season. Nice, nice, nice people! You can roam the fields and look at all the plants, which are carefully labelled -- we spent a good long time doing that. They not only have a large binder listing all the varieties and their particulars, they have what looks like it was a baby book, with pictures of all the flowers. As it turned out, the varieties we wanted were not in the dig-you-own-area, so we sat in the spacious garage while they tooled aound the grounds on little tractors.

The daylilies are big and healthy looking, and if I had more space I'd have been all over the orphans and the collection -- 36 plants for $50. There were not a lot of daylilies in bloom right now, but we'll definitely be back next spring and summer!