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Welcome to Quarles Daylilies 2011

Located in the Heart of the Bluegrass Country, near the Saddlebred Capitol of the World, we’re nestled conveniently between Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, just a few miles off I-64.

Still a family farm, we have diversified, moving from a beef and tobacco operation to raising market vegetables and fruits, daylilies and a commercial cow/calf operation.  The work continues to be done by my husband and I, along with our four children, though we hope to team up with Berea College to offer  internships during the summer to students in their Sustainable Agriculture program.  Our two oldest daughters still work off the farm,  one in the local planning and zoning office and the other at the local feed mill.   Then it’s home to help get the feeding done and all the summer chores finished.  The oldest will get married in the early summer so there’s a wedding to be planned.  She’ll head to Oklahoma with her new husband and will be sorely missed.  Our son will graduate from Berea College and is ready to experience the world to the fullest.  Our youngest is in her second year of high school and rarely misses the feeding run in the evenings.  Our children remain our finest and most important accomplishment.  We continue to have our health and our family.  Blessed we are indeed.       

We grow all types of daylilies, spiders, full forms, unusual forms, doubles, eyes and edges.  You’ll find newer introductions from many major hybridizers as well as older award winning favorites on our sales lists.  We offer many fine Munson cultivars for those intrigued with the Munson legacy.  We currently carry over 1600 cultivars and make new additions yearly.

Our plants are field grown in the farm’s old tobacco patch.  This soil is unamended and the plants are grown with little or no mulch.  This helps us easily determine which plant is a doer and which is a wimp.  We don’t have the time or interest in babying a plant.  If they don’t bloom well and increase at a reasonable rate for us then we don’t want them. We want you to be happy with the way our plants grow in your garden.

We have a gallery of several hundred pictures of our plants for you to inspect.  These are not professional pictures.  Some of them were taken by our 16-year-old daughter.  These are pictures of the plants directly as they grow in the field with no bells or whistles added.  What you see in these pictures should be what you should expect to see when those plants bloom for you.

Last year turned terribly dry by the middle of summer.  There was little produce grown that didn’t have irrigation.  In fact we didn’t even plant fall garden as it was too dry to germinate.  We started feeding hay early due to dry pastures and as I’m writing this now we’re buying hay until the grass starts growing this spring.  Regardless, we are farmers and there’s always next season.

We are a state inspected nursery selling healthy, true to name daylilies.  We sell double fans and many times, on older varieties, you will receive multiple fans.  We intend to be as generous as possible.  We can be especially generous with our garden visitors on older cultivars.  All plants are dug by me or the kids and are washed and packed with care.  We want to ship divisions that you will be pleased to receive.

If you’re coming through Kentucky, please stop by and see us.  We’re located about 8 miles off I-64 at Exit 43, which is the Waddy Exit.  Our open gardens for 2011 will begin June 10 and run through July 17, Friday-Sundays from 10-5.  If you’re in the neighborhood at another time please give us a call before dropping in just to make sure somebody’s going to be around.

This past year we again had a wonderful time during open gardens visiting with customers and friends that stopped by to see our field.  We truly appreciate and thank our repeat customers and those that tried us for the first time.  We have made some very dear friends through our daylilies and our markets.   We hope our service and quality of plants met your expectations.  As always, your satisfaction with our plants is of first importance with us. 

Stroll through our plant galleries.  If you see something that interests you, give us call.  We’ll be glad to answer any questions that you have and are always glad to talk daylilies with folks.  If you’re in the area during bloom season, please consider stopping by.  We’d love to meet you and show you around!  

Janet Quarles