Pearl Gardens: Daylily Display Gardens- Greenbank, Ontario
Brian and Diane Jones moved to Greenbank 23 years ago with only two gardens of impatiens, petunias and purple iris. Now there are over twenty-five gardens containing 600 registered daylilies, 155 different hostas, 50 heucheras and over 100 different varieties of perennials and three mini goldfish ponds on their 200 by 100 lot.
Daughter, Emily collects and and propagates succulents, along with your partner Dylan who has created a Shakespeare Garden and daugher Lauren collects clematis. All three kids now have their own gardens and collection of plants. Brian, Diane, Emily, Dylan and Lauren all hybridize daylilies and they have moved over 600 daylily seedlings to Brian's parents farm south of Balsam. They have not yet registered any of their own daylilies with the Hemerocallis Society, but hope to this year. All seedlings are currently under evaluation.
The entire family are members of the Ontario Daylily Society and the American Hemerocallis Society. Brian is now retired from the role of Education Officer at the Ministry of Education and Diane is also retired from being an ICU nurse in Scarborough. Both find gardening stress free and relaxing in their retirement years. The house hold family joke is Brian is allowed to add a new garden each year until the age of 60, then he has to grass over one garden per year. However, now that Brian is closer to 60, that age has moved to 70.
Daughter, Emily collects and and propagates succulents, along with your partner Dylan who has created a Shakespeare Garden and daugher Lauren collects clematis. All three kids now have their own gardens and collection of plants. Brian, Diane, Emily, Dylan and Lauren all hybridize daylilies and they have moved over 600 daylily seedlings to Brian's parents farm south of Balsam. They have not yet registered any of their own daylilies with the Hemerocallis Society, but hope to this year. All seedlings are currently under evaluation.
The entire family are members of the Ontario Daylily Society and the American Hemerocallis Society. Brian is now retired from the role of Education Officer at the Ministry of Education and Diane is also retired from being an ICU nurse in Scarborough. Both find gardening stress free and relaxing in their retirement years. The house hold family joke is Brian is allowed to add a new garden each year until the age of 60, then he has to grass over one garden per year. However, now that Brian is closer to 60, that age has moved to 70.
