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Michael Bouman's Daylilies and Daylily Seeds

Michael and Kathy Bouman
624 Hidden Lake Drive
St. Peters, MO 63376
(636) 284-7745
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Photos at Flickr.com, user boumanm
Blog: Creating Interest

About Daylily Lay

Daylily Lay is the name of my gardening passion. It's a whimsical name, lest I take myself too seriously.  In Bob Dylan's Lay Lady, Lay there's a "big brass bed."  Here, there's a big grass bed. 

In September 2010, Kathy and I moved to a new place 20 miles west of St. Louis.  We are on a sunny lot of an acre and a half, and there's a small lake in back, and there are many ducks and geese there, and one heron.  As the 2012 winter approaches, we are planning the landscaping for the wide front yard.  We're going to add better trees than the ones we removed, plus a big sweeping curve of low-maintenance shrubs and perennial flowers.  We're also going to add more diversity of plants in the "beauty gardens" in back. 

Here's a view of the back yard on November 7, with the selected seedlings in the foreground and the beauty gardens in the distance.  The brown area will be our vegetable garden in 2012.

 I grow about 750 hybrid daylilies. Early on summer mornings, I'm out there crossing one daylily with another in the hope of producing special new ones. I'm also out with my camera.   Here's a photo montage of the daylilies I've registered.

I register my best hybrids with the American Hemerocallis Society (AHS).  Pending city approval of a permit to have a home-based internet sales business, some of my hybrids will be available for sale on various internet auction sites. 

Our garden is not a nursery, however, and there are no direct sales here.  Visitors are welcome by appointment in the afternoons during bloom season.  AHS Garden Judges may visit in the morning hours by appointment.  (A Garden Judge evaluates the performance of various cultivars in contention for national awards.)

Kathy and I are both Garden Judges.  Since 2004 I have served AHS as an instructor of new Garden Judges and in the past few years as the Garden Judge Liaison for the three-state region of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.  A few years ago while serving on the AHS Judges Education Committee, I worked with several others to upgrade the training materials.

Currently I serve on the AHS Technology Committee and the Ombudsman Committee.  I enjoy giving talks to garden clubs anywhere in North America.  Recently I have spoken at the Cam-Am Classic in Toronto, at the New England Daylily Society, and at local clubs in southern Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.  I am accepting bookings now for 2012 and 2013.

Seed Sales

Each year in November I sell my surplus seeds on The Lily Auction.  I list all the seeds at once and try to move them all in a single two-week period. In 2011, however, I had no surplus seeds.  Thanks to all my previous customers, and good luck with "our babies." Send me pictures of the ones you keep!

Ordering Information

Please contact me before sending an order, as supplies are limited and at present I do not yet have a city permit to do business.  Prices shown here are advisory, pending city approval in 2012.  I ship USPS Priority Mail. Postage cost is $10 plus $1 for each additional plant.

2012 New Hybrids

Come Down O Love Divine (Butter Cream x Victorian Lace)  Tetraploid, 6.75", 43", Dormant, Midseason, EMO, 3 branches, 17 buds, easily fertile both ways. Heavily ruffled pale yellow cream with high reflecting power.  A clump dominates a garden.  Really special.  $150 double fan

2011 New Hybrids

Chief Glenna, Eastern Shawnee (Ferengi Gold X Soft Summer Night)  Tetraploid, 6", 32", Dormant, Midseason, EMO, 3 branches, 16 buds, instant rebloom, fertile both ways. Ruffled coral rose self with a darker halo, lavender midribs, orange braid and green throat.  Rapid increase.  This was selected by my friend, Glenna Wallace, the first woman to be elected Chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.  $100 double fan

Liz Paine (Rose Fireglow x [Victorian Days x Rose Impact])  Tetraploid Dormant, EM, 5", 23",  EMO, fertile both ways. Bright and clean rose self with a ghostly lavender watermark around a yellow to green throat.  Complex edge of white and gold replete with hooks.  Named for an avid gardener and friend in Alexandria, Virginia.  $100 double fan

I maintain photos of most seedlings that are currently under evaluation, plus a page of images from my collection.  Daylily enthusiasts are welcome to use my pictures for educational purposes or on auction sites with photo credit to Michael Bouman.

From time to time I write about daylilies or daylily people. The Library at Daylily Lay is a download area for PDF files of the pieces I have saved.