Daylilies are the perfect flowering plants — beautiful, hardy and carefree, flowering in sun and partial shade, increasing in size year after year. They’re not persnickety, although they will reward you for giving them nutrients and water; they come in dazzling variety — miniatures all the way up to plants taller than we are, spiders and doubles and unusual eyezones, in nearly all the colors of the rainbow. They are not troubled by many insects or diseases. And their blossoms, while each lasts only a day, grace the garden with great beauty. There are early, mid, and late-flowering types, and many cultivars will open blossoms for weeks on end.
Who we are ...
Dhabi's Daylilies at White Brook Farm is a small, family-run business, located in the small village of Gilsum, New Hampshire in USDA Zone 5b. Our farm is a completely natural and pesticide-free operation, and we have been growing vegetables, herbs, and perennials for market for some time. We're an extended family here ... and while Dhabi is the primary daylily grower, everyone helps out. You can easily contact us, order daylilies, and visit us during our open season.
We are also the purveyors of Terra Nova Organic Coffee, fresh-roasted
right here on the farm.
Our daylilies have been selected for hardiness in our Zone 5b climate. They are field-grown, and here at White Brook Farm, we grow everything organically, using compost and fish fertilizers to nurture our plants. Long ago, we here in the North learned the hard way to be cautious of the following:
Mail-order plants from warmer climates — some of these will not survive into a second year here in the north; of those that do, some have diminished performance and vigor. It's hit-or-miss, unless you understand the genetics behind the hybridizing -- and let's face it, that's a select few people, not the average gardener. We suggest that you purchase your daylilies from a grower in a USDA climate zone similar to yours for best results.
Daylilies from “big box” stores — most of these have been propagated by tissue culturing, which seems to reduce their genetic vigor and too often results in changes in color, size, and performance. In general, the cheaper the daylily, the more likely it is to have been tissue cultured.
