Kaye's Kreations Daylily Gardens .

Photos Lilypad Garden - Dial Up

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We started Lilypad in 2005 and it is still a work in progress.
 
 
 
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We started with woods....

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Fill for the driveway, house pad & swamp road....

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...came off of the property....

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....leaving us with a lovely, sloped meadow.

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The road through our swamp,

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accessing the rear of the property,

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gave me my first planting opportunity - free range daylilies.

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The house grew....

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....and progressed....

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....and we moved in during the summer of 2006.

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Now we split time between Eden and Lilypad.

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I used my stained glass skills....

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....to add some special touches.

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This inlayed floor medallion was patterned on one of my seedlings.

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Meanwhile, weed control was an ongoing project....

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....and still is!

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The gardens were being planned for the rear area of the backyard...

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Beds also went in around the house....

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Some then and now photos....

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The first section of the main garden is about 5,000 square feet.

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It is deer fenced & electrified.

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The daylilies have to share space with the veggies...

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As space got tight, we added another 1,500 sq. ft. in this extension....

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....then exterior beds around the outside of the fence, at least another 1,000 sq. ft.

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Then we added a 12 x 30 ft. polycarbonate greenhouse....

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....where we start all kinds of seedlings and overwinter some of our more tropical plants.

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I have also started an iris bed in an area that is constantly wet from the runoff from the house.

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All in all, we're pleased with the bounty of the harvest at Lilypad...

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....and are eagerly awaiting each new sunrise.

Kaye's Kreations Daylily Gardens, Albany, GA and Monticello, FL kaye@kkdaylilies.com