About Us | Frog Pond Daylilies

I am an accidental daylily farmer. I grew up tent camping as a child, traipsing in the woods behind NC's state naturalist, learning how to identify the plants around me in various North Carolina state parks. In junior high, I cleared and made a nature trail behind the school, labeling plants along the trail so they could be identified by other peer students. My parents were astonished, but granted my wish, when at the age of 12, I requested my own copy of The Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas for Christmas. I studied botany in college under this same naturalist, Dr. Hollis J. Rogers, and have always had a passion for native plants and for gardening.

Daylilies always comprised a part of my garden beds, but prior to retirement, but daylilies and I always had a very casual relationship, until a few years before retiring. Then, the dangerously contagious daylily bug bit HARD. By the time I retired in fall of 2023, I found myself with an urban garden on a 4/10 acre lot supporting more than 600 cultivars. Today, that number exceeds 1,000 - on the same 4/10 acre lot. This is, indeed, an infectious and contagious passion!

I am dabbling in hybridization - only dabbling due to my space restrictions. But, am excited and looking forward to seeing exciting new plants produced by cross-pollenating two especially selected daylilies.

Frog Pond Daylilies is located in Kernersville, in the heart of central North Carolina, and in agricultural zone 8a. We enjoy four equally long seasons. We have freezes much of the winter, but generally do not experience long periods of sub-20ish degree temperatures, allowing all foliage types to generally perform well.

I have three sunken ponds as well as shade/woodland

garden areas as well. Seven different species of frogs and

toads have shown up with the introduction of the ponds,

which are full each summer with thousands of tadpoles.

Summer evenings, the chorus of male frogs and toads is

simply delightful - especially when enjoyed with friends,

a glass of wine and a fire.

I am a member of the Central North Carolina Daylily Club

(CNCDC), which is in Region 15 of the American Hemero-

callis Society (AHS). Frog Pond Daylilies is also a co-host

and co-creator of the Triad Daylily Festival with CreativEdge Gardens, which is held annually in June,

Thank you for dropping by my online garden, and if you choose, for shopping!