My husband and I relocated twenty-two years ago to the Eastern Townships area of southern Quebec, a few minutes from the Vermont border and beautiful Lake Memphremagog.

Our home was built plunk in the center of a large open pasture hundreds of feet from the road . The expanse includes a view of Jay Peak, Owl's Head and Bear Mountain. It is here that my love of gardening began.

Living on a weather-beaten hill, even though I am told we are in zone 4b, I am much happier with plants that are even hardier than that.

Thousands of Hemerocallis (daylily) cultivars fall into this category.

The genus comes in low-growing miniature varieties to tall cultivars with seven-inch blooms. Doubles and frilly edged knockouts are also becoming widely available, as are spider variants and unusual form daylilies. There are early, midseason and late-blooming varieties and rebloomers as well. The garden is never void of colour all summer long, thanks to these wonderful hybrids.

My garden presently boasts over 335 cultivars, and growing! Over the past decade I have only lost three or four plants and have never seen a significant pest problem. My daylilies stand head and shoulders above my other perennials for hardiness, versatility and easy handling.

Photographs of my daylilies can be seen on the List of Favorites link.

I hope my garden will inspire you to experiment with daylilies.

Thanks for visiting.

Charlotte
a.k.a. Chacha with dog Maya (photo right)