05/19/2024
As the UKREC Garden is removed to make way for new greenhouses we are so glad the Daylilies many gifts from Mitchell Leichhardt, Casey & Cindy Schott, John Rice, Joe Swanson - Kentucky hybridizers as well as those from Middle Tennessee Daylily Society trials and plant auction and purchased Dr Darrell Apps (past UK Hort Faculty) cultivars have a new home at the wonderful University of The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky
Say hello to our new daylily collection: 120 different cultivars of daylilies, many of them developed right here in Kentucky! Thanks to the dedication of UK Professor Emeritus Winston Dunwell, they encompass decades of collecting, and many of them from the breeders themselves.
After the devastating tornadoes in Princeton, most of the structures at the UK Princeton Research Farm were destroyed. The plants made it through the storm, but the planned new greenhouses took the space where they are planted, so they needed a new home. This Wednesday our Senior Horticulturist worked with Win and Princeton horticulture staff. Together they dug up and labeled 120 different varieties, and then drove them back to Lexington. The daylilies are now safely nestled in their new home in the Perennial Teaching Garden where they will mirror the Iris display that is maintained by the Bluegrass Iris Society. They might not look like much this year, but next year should be amazing!
Many thanks to UKREC, Win Dunwell, Daniel Becker, and his crew for bringing this awesome collection to The Arboretum
