Linda Johnson admiring one of her favorites. |
Jeff and Linda Johnson (on left) with a happy customer |
A big clump calls for a big garden fork |
View of the forest to the north through Scarlet Orbit. Bob
cats black bears and deer are seen there on occasion. |
Codie Wedgeworth with pool and house in the background. The
view from the pool into the daylily area is breathtaking in peak season. |
Garden visitors can view approximately 1,000 cultivars. We
have most of the award winners plus every year we purchase as many new releases as can be
afforded. |
Daylilies in the mist. |
View to the east from a recently developed bed. Most of our
soil is clay so we created raised beds using over 5,000 yards of wood chips as the bed
base. It takes a few years for the chips to decompose. |
Peak season after a storm. 60" of rain per year is not
unusual. In a typical winter there are 2-4 hard freezes below 20 F. |
In the foreground is one of our original beds planted in 1991
after we moved from Michigan. What started as hobby turned into a business(retirement
hobby) in 1992. |
Peak season in May. Undeveloped beds are in the background. |
Garden office under tree. |
Chief weed puller in early March. I have more hats than shoes. |
Our very first customers writing a check at our outdoor office. Obviously this is a rural
area. The wood chip piles on the left were made in daylily beds a short time later. And,
yes, horses absolutely love the taste of daylily foliage. |
Using a golf cart allows us to fill orders faster. Linda likes to drive. |
It took a visiting snow bird, my wife's sister, to stock the house with vases of flowers. |
Peak season in May is a visual feast. Bluebirds, wrens, and other birds plus toads and
beneficial insects keep pests under control. |
Our daylilies grow fine without the use of pesticides. |
Three bald cyprus thrive in a low wet location. A wide range of plants that
host birds and beneficial insects are on the property. |
Members of security staff on patrol. |
Security staff receiving instructions. |
Members at a local plant club leaving with a truck load of flowers. |
Jeff smiles when people tour our garden. |
Some customers brought a picnic which they shared. |
A son makes mom happy on Mother's Day. |
Yes, we can grow dormant daylilies. |
Jeff talking to a garden club. |
Available for sale are various clumping and also running bamboo
suitable for southern and southeastern United States. |
Bamboo sizes range form tiny to huge yet most could be grown in a container. Click
on the bamboo button, and visit our bamboo website (www.johnsonbamboo.com
) today |
|
