Arcadian Daylilies
72 Hendrick Ave. Toronto M6G 3S5   416.657.1444

Canada Day Special Offer

In celebration of Canada Day 2009 we are offering a one day special. This is Canada’s 142nd birthday (we live in the Greatest country in the World) and in celebration we are offering Daylily ‘Showbiz Kid’ for $1.42 to anyone buying plants totaling $50.00 or more. We have a number of 3 gallon containers with small clumps of Showbiz Kid and will provide Triple Fan bare root divisions if we run out of containers.


July 2 - We have 2 Showbiz Kids in 3 gallon Containers left, so we are going to continue this celebration special for a couple days or until they are gone.    

 

Most recently updated July 2, 2009

Over 20 cultivars in bloom already. The early season bloom has started. It feels like it has been the perfect spring for plant development and the number of scapes is astounding - the next few months will be an absolute riot of colour.

 

Our Container grown plants, and the plants in the ground have never looked as lush and healthy as they do this year. Containers can be planted now for bloom this July and August. Our two gallon containers have multifan clumps in them, many of which will carry 3 to 8 bloom scapes this year. Many of our customers like to browse the containers during bloom season and purchase plants in full bloom. With a little extra care (to avoid damaging bloom scapes) even plants in full bloom can be planted during the peak of the season. 

 

Garden visitors are welcome to visit often to see the Early season bloom (now until mid July), Midseason Bloom (mid July until early August), and Late season Bloom (August and September).

 

We are more than happy to have visitors view the gardens, and we are more than happy to have customers pick up plants. Visits and pickups are by appointment only. Please email or phone so that we may find a mutually convenient time (evenings and weekends are usually best).

 

About Mail-Orders

 

About Pickups

 

About Garden Visits

 

Our 2009 Catalogue

Please feel welcome to print a copy of the online catalogue (free of charge) for yourself or a friend, or just download to keep on your hard drive for easy future reference.

Printed catalogues may be requested with a token $2.00 payment. That is just a fraction of what it actually costs us to produce and mail a hardcopy catalogue. The $2.00 is refundable with first order ensuring that catalogues are always free to customers. (Cash, Cheque, Postage Stamps, Money Order, & Cdn Tire Money accepted)

Files may take a few minutes to download depending on the speed of your internet connection. Internet dialup users with slower connections may find it easiest to download the catalog pages individually.

2009 Catalogue Pages

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Index

 

- Bloom Ready 2 Gallon Containers

- Ordering Daylilies

- Archived Past Catalogues

- *** JDRF 3nd Annual Fundraiser Perennial Plant Sale

- Arcadian Daylilies Archived Newsletters

- Humber Arboretum – Public Daylily Gardens

- Humber Arboretum – Species Collection

- A Few of Our Favorites

 

Sandy Carlton
Arcadian Daylilies
72 Hendrick Avenue
Toronto ON M6G 3S5

416-657-1444
Contact Us By Email

 

Container Grown Plants

We have hundreds of overwintered 2 gallon Container Grown Plants that will be available for pickup, as soon as they start displaying solid growth mid April. Our Containers are robust multifans and small clumps, these are some of the best value plants we have ever grown.

 

While bare rooted daylilies recover very quickly and very easily,  we love the way our Container Grown plants can be installed into your garden without losing a beat. These are guaranteed to bloom the first year and can even be transplanted in full bloom at the peak of the season.

 

Pickups can be arranged at our Home Garden (Central Toronto), our Etobicoke Garden (near QEW & 427), or on the West Mountain in Hamilton.  Please email for a list of cultivars available in containers, or watch this web page – we will try to get a complete list posted here.

Click on this link to see a PDF list of the cultivars available in 2 Gallon Containers.

 

2009 Clearance on One Gallon Container Grown Daylilies – We’ve got loads of One Gallon Container Grown Daylilies, that need new homes!

A mix of double fans, triples, quads and better, these are perfect for landscaping  where a variety of colours, styles, and sizes are desired.   Most are named daylilies, although some have lost their names and a few are misnamed. Many have been in containers several years or longer proving how tough these cultivars are.

These plants would be perfect for a larger planting where the criteria is good hardy plants in a variety of heights, forms and colours.

            Take 1 – 20 your choice $5.00 ea

            21 – 50   your choice    $4.00 ea

            51 and over                  $3.50 ea

As we sort through the beds, we will be constantly adding odds and ends to this selection of Discounted one gallon Daylilies.

 

 

Ordering Daylilies

The simplest method of placing an order is to print the Order Form (Click Here for a Printer Friendly Order Form PDF) and mail it to us with payment. We are happy to accept email orders (they do not need to be formatted) and telephone orders, however payment is by cash, cheque (personal cheques are OK), or money order. (please do not mail cash)

Plants are committed, and shipping dates assigned, on a First-Paid-For-Basis.

You are welcome to email any questions including cultivar availability and enquiries about available shipping dates.

Download 2009 Order Blank

 

 

 

Archived Past Colour Catalogues

 

Past Catalogues are archived here. These are large (approx 2Mb) Adobe PDF files that may take a few minutes to download depending on the speed of your internet connection. With priorities shifting we did not managed to produce a 2008 colour catalogue.

 

Arcadian Daylilies Archived 2007 Catalogue

Arcadian Daylilies Archived 2006 Catalogue

Arcadian Daylilies Archived 2005 Catalogue

Arcadian Daylilies Archived 2004 Catalogue

Arcadian Daylilies Archived 2003 Catalogue

 

 

 

3rd Annual Perennial Plant Sale

in aid of

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Together we can find a cure for Paige ! (please ask)

 

Saturday May 30, 2009

8:00 am till 2:00 pm

199 Cranbrook Drive

Hamilton, West Mountain

 

Many Many Thanks to our Friends, Donors and Sponsors who help to make this sale such a success !

 

 

 

 

 

 

Printer friendly PDF versions of our old Newsletters

 

Newsletter Oct 2004.pdf

Newsletter Sept 2004.pdf

Newsletter Aug 2004.pdf        

 

 

 

 

 

Public Daylily Gardens at Humber Arboretum

The Humber Arboretum is a not for profit center for urban ecology on the West Humber River in northwest Toronto. Enter a world of beauty as you wander along trails and boardwalks through gardens, forests, meadows and wetlands. A jewel in the Greater Toronto Landscape!

 

Arcadian Daylilies has continued working in partnership with the Humber Arboretum to build a truly world class daylily collection, illustrating the many styles, sizes, heights and colours of the modern Daylily as well as many historical daylilies from “Apricot” introduced by George Yeld in 1893, onwards.

 

The highlight of the Arboretum collection is undoubtedly the Stout Silver Medal bed, which winds for 200 feet through an incredible park-like setting featuring mature trees, ponds, immaculate flowerbeds, & open lawns.

 

The Stout bed was specially prepared to illustrate the evolution of the daylily since Hesperus received the first Stout Medal in 1950.

 

In August 2003 we completed the Stout Silver Medal Collection. To our knowledge this is the only complete SSM collection in Canada. A handful of the cultivars in this collection are such tender evergreens that they will not survive our Canadian winters. The staff at the arboretum have put the extra effort into moving the most tender of the plants into the greenhouse for the winter and they will be reinstalled in the Stout Medal Bed every spring.

 

This is not the way daylilies are intended to be grown, however for the purposes of maintaining this historically significant collection for Canadian Daylily Enthusiasts to enjoy the extra effort is being applied.

 

As of bloom season 2003 many of the Stout Medal clumps have matured to the size that they are putting up 10 – 15 scapes or more. The arboretum staff have done a fabulous job of growing these plants to perfection and the results are a world class botanical garden display.

 

The Humber Arboretum is itself a Joint Project between the City of Toronto Parks, the Toronto Region Conservation Authority and Humber College.

 

Located at the back of Humber College north campus the arboretum is open daylight hours, 365 days a year. Parking for arboretum visitors is free in Lot #1 behind Humber College. Use Entrance “A” to the college.

 

Access is off of Humber College Blvd west of Hwy 27 and south of Finch Ave. Washroom facilities are available in the residence building adjacent the arboretum.

 

For more information

416-657-1444 - Arcadian Daylilies

            416-675-6622 ex 4467 - Humber Arboretum

 

     www.HumberArboretum.on.ca

 

 

Humber Arboretum Species Collection

During 2003, work began on a Collection of Species Daylilies at the Arboretum. These daylilies for the most part have more historical significance than commercial value, and the Humber Arboretum is the perfect place to preserve and display this important plant material.

 

The Species Collection currently contains over 20 species and sub-species, that will be blooming for the first time at the Arboretum in 2004. Some species are extra early, so we may be seeing bloom as early as May 2004.

 

Special Thanks to Gil Stelter who donated many of the Species for the Arboretum collection.

 

Gil and his wife Sally, operate Gryphon Gardens in Guelph, which is an American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden and will be a part of the 2004 Region 4 tour. Gryphon Gardens has the largest species collection we are aware of and their generous help now provides that this important plant material will be preserved in a public garden as well.

 

Gil has done considerable work crossing modern cultivars back to species to restore vigour and hardiness of the species while maintaining the beauty of the modern cultivars. Gil’s work is also helping to provide a better understanding of Ploidy with the relationship of modern tetraploids and diploids to some of the triploid species.

 

Gryphon Gardens is open by appointment 519-821-9267 and they do sell daylilies on a very limited scale.

 

 

 

A Few of Our Favorite Daylilies

This section soon to be updated with more photos and cultivar information

These are cultivars that have performed exceptionally in our gardens, the combination of Exquisite Beauty and Excellent Value make these 1st choice recommendations.

 

Please Note; all photographs contained on this web site are protected by copyright and may not be used by others without express written consent

 

Fooled Me – Bright gold with Brilliant red eye FM Has the Spectacular Bloom and Outstanding performance so important in our minds. Recipient of the 2005 Stout Silver Medal.

Fooled Me

 

Moonlit Masquerade – Pale Cream near White with a dark purple eyezone above a green throat, MM has a fine purple edge that doesn’t quite make it to the tip of the petals. A vigorous plant with robust blemish free foliage MM is an early midseason bloomer that often starts the 3rd week of June and blooms with clusters of flowers for 5 or 6 weeks with rebloom after that. An absolute first choice. Recipient of the 2004 Stout Silver Medal.

Moonlit Masquerade.pdf

 

Janice Brown – one fabulous daylily with excellent Branching and Budcount – this should be on your must have list

Janice Brown

 

Spider Miracle – Registered as an unusual Form (UFO) because of the typical curling and twisting of segments SM is not just interesting and beautiful, it is easy to grow and a rapid multiplier. One of our first choice Daylilies.

Spider Miracle

 

Tuscawilla Tigress – Big Bold and Beautiful. We love the thick leathery foliage and when topped off with flaming hot blooms this is a daylily to see.

Tuscawilla Tigress

 

Purity – the tallest daylily we currently offer for sale. We love the way these soft yellow and fragrant blooms contrast against the blue backdrop of the sky. Mid Late season bloom – may not start until the beginning of August then blooming for 4-5 weeks

Purity.pdf

 

Peggy Jeffcoat – Stunning, Stunning, Stunning this pale cream polychrome mother of pearl opalescence diamond dusted with big 6.5” blooms sitting just above the foliage. PJ makes a perfect specimen plant in the choicest spot in your garden or can be massed in a border – front row only please – PJ is too beautiful to put anywhere else.

Peggy Jeffcoat.pdf

 

 

Thanks for visiting

Sandy Carlton
Arcadian Daylilies
72 Hendrick Avenue
Toronto ON M6G 3S5

416-657-1444
email us