Merrymeeting Daylilies
500 varieties and counting...
Les Turner
603-397-7105
80 Tash Road (formerly Old Route 11)
New Durham, NH, 03855
lesandnath@yahoo.com
The Merrymeeting Daylilies collection began with two gift classic daylilies (about 40 years ago) and has grown into the current 500 cultivar collection, mostly "the best of the best" added from other New England and Florida collections.
All daylilies sold by Merrymeeting Daylilies have grown in the collection for at least two years in our Zone 4 conditions, many for more than 20 years. Cultivars which demonstrated poor growth or insufficient blossoming potential for our rugged New Hampshire weather quickly found a new home in our compost heap.
While we retain and proudly grow a selection of early hybrids and some "species" daylilies, we also include many fine recent cultivars from the gardens of Stamile, Reilly, Trimmer, and others from Florida. Our collection also includes exceptional hybrids from several hybridizers working in the northern US.
The modern daylily is as much changed from the original as is a modern car from a curved-dash Olds. The desirable features of hardiness, variety of colors, vigor and good plant appearance have been retained and improved upon in most of the best new cultivars.
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A man (Les Turner) "out standing" in his field...
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Included in the Merrymeeting collection also are most of the remarkable cultivars of a local hybridizer, now deceased, Ron Valente. We also continue to raise and sell a few Les Turner unregistered hybrids, included in the Merrymeeting daylily collection with the prefix "Merrymeeting".
