The garden of John and Marie Everitt is one of 13 AHS display gardens in Indiana. The garden is an acre city lot that holds nearly 500 cultivars. In addition to a mix of shrubs, perennials, and annuals in rock-edged beds, the backyard features a brick patio, pergola with swing, vegetable beds, and formal herb garden.
Eric Simpson’s two-acre property sits amid central Indiana farmland. Only 2 years old, the garden is now the center of Eric’s 12-year hybridizing program that features edged, blue-eyed, and patterned daylilies. Visitors can also stroll through Eric’s large seedling bed and enjoy several beds devoted to individual hybridizer friends.
Greg and Jayne Lough have built a daylily garden on 2 acres taken from the field surrounding their country home. Of the 1800 daylily cultivars growing there, two-thirds are introductions from 2000 to the present. Still a working farm, what began as a way to ease the stress of uncertain weather and potential crop disasters has become a thriving daylily business that involves not only Greg and Jayne, but also their three children.
The Schroeder garden is an urban garden filled with daylilies Gene and Jackie transported from their garden in Evansville when they moved to Carmel in 2006. Since then, they have added many wildflowers, native perennials, and many shrubs, like spicebush, buttonbush, and redbuds.
Located in northwest Indianapolis, Dr. Wally Zollman’s garden is full of his daylily hybridizing efforts, a collection he began back in 2000. Still a practicing plastic surgeon, Dr. Zollman also finds time to grow beautiful orchids, ferns, and amaryllis in a greenhouse attached to the house. An apiary sits on the edge of the garden, which has a pagoda as the centerpiece.
Bill and Marilyn Stephen’s garden is located in an 8-acre wooded area containing 250-year-old trees. Visitors are sure to be charmed by expertly paved walks that wander through an area planted with daylilies, irises, hellebores, ground covers, and so much more. A formal paved garden leads visitors to the Engerth bed of seedlings where meeting attendees will admire and vote for the most outstanding seedling by a Region 2 hybridizer.