Texas Gardening: Annual Houston Daylily Yard Sale, 0 by Marylyn_TX

Marylyn_TX wrote:
Hi everyone! Every year on the Saturday before Mother's Day, a daylily hybridizer in Houston has a yard sale to sell off his excess divisions. For the past three years a group of us DGers have been meeting there and buying his lovely plants (those of us who got there on time, anyway... but that's another story), and then going out for breakfast and nursery hopping.

This year he's doing things a little differently... Usually he divides his plants in the fall and then pots up the ones he's going to sell and takes care of them all winter so they are nice and happy on Mother's Day Saturday for the sale. This year, apparently he was busy, so this is what his website says (http://www.ofts.com/bill/yardsale.html):

Quoting:This year will be a little different than years past. Yes, there will be a daylily sale in my front yard but it will be hosted by the Houston Hemerocallis Society.

This year the American Hemerocallis Society will be having its national daylily convention here in Houston. I am on the open garden list for the convention and hope to have people from all over the world visiting my garden. In order to have my garden looking its best for the convention I decided not to dig any daylilies this past fall.

Of course that means no daylilies for a plant sale this spring. Not wanting do disappoint all my regulars, I asked the Houston Hemerocallis Society if they would have their sale in my yard on my regular sale date and they agreed. They tell me they will have a nice selection of plants. Next year I will go back to holding my own yard sale as usual.

Here's a link to the Houston Hemerocallis Society plant sale web page where you will find a list of plants and other information about the sale.

http://www.ofts.com/hhs/plantsales.html

Oh, I almost forgot. I will be here that day. Because the club members will actually be running the sale, I will have more time to show you around my garden and visit. What fun!

So... Anyone want to go? Wanna go to breakfast and then go nursery hopping afterwards? The yard sale is in the Oak Forest area, northwest of the Heights. There are several fun nurseries in that area, or we can go farther afield....