The garden is about 9 years old and has transformed from a vacant lot filled with 100+ pine trees to a serene garden atmosphere that maintains approximately 800-900 daylilies depending on the summer heat.  We moved 300 daylilies from our home in Philadelphia not realizing that dormant daylilies can be challenged with Houston’s humidity and continual high temperatures.  Therefore, we shipped them to friends and family in friendlier climates from California to Maryland.

Gardens in Houston come alive in November and are in bloom until the end of June.  There are many companion plants such as caladiums, lilies, sages, salvias, grown among the daylilies in the garden beds and topiaries are placed strategically around the flowerbeds.  Annual plantings of hollyhocks, delphiniums, larkspurs, are planted to compliment the various types of daylilies and to give height to the garden.  A number of annual flowers edge the garden beds. 

The garden contains many doubles from David Kirchhoff our favorite doubles hybridizer for those lush “truffles”, interesting large flower varieties with fascinating patterned eyezones from Ted Petit, large formed flowers from Jack Carpenter, ruffled forms from Kinnebrew, and spider and unusual forms from Stamile, and many other great hybridizers such as Bill Maryott and his introductions. Some of our favorite cultivars displayed in the garden are as follows: H. 'Affaire D’Amore', 'All about Eve', 'Ball Room Waltz', 'Beaded Dress', 'Border Bride', 'De Colores', 'Executive Decision', 'Grapefruit Truffle', 'Glazed Porcelain Truffle', 'Guadalajara', 'Helix', 'Larger Than Life', 'Making Double Time', 'Mexican Holiday', 'Microburst', 'Mister Lucky', 'Never Been Kissed', 'Oak Island Jewel', 'Orange Velvet', 'Queens Coronation', 'Santa Fe Spark', 'Sapphire Skies', 'Sabine Baur', 'Spacecoast Cotton Candy', 'Spacecoast Citrus Kick', 'Spacecoast Cranberry Breeze', 'Stars in the Mist', 'Thin Man', 'Time in a Bottle', 'Lady Betty Fritz', 'Eleanor Roosevelt' and many others. 

We have many wonderful guest plants from David Kirchhoff, Bill Maryott, Leo Sharp, Eddie Scott, John Kinnebrew, Ted Petit, Jean Lewis, BoBo Faggard and Bob and Eric Tankesley-Clarke.  We have set up a special guest bed to display 16 of Bill Maryott’s  latest 2007–2005 introductions.  All of our guest plants are eye catchers and you will not want to miss these beauties!!!!              

We look forward to your visit and God willing good weather and fellowship.

Sincerely,

Maureen and Robert Valenza