Welcome to Springwood Gardens, the country home of Dick, Karol and Jim Emmerich, and Karol’s daylily farm. We’re located about 30 miles southwest of Minneapolis on top of a wind-swept hill. As such, we experience cold Zone 4 temperatures, usually with little to no snow cover.
Karol’s goal is to produce cutting edge, northern hardy daylilies which:
> perform well in the garden
> are distinctive
> have beautiful, clear (or even unusual) color or interesting patterns.
> put a smile on your face when you look at them. :-)
You can see a short television segment about Karol’s hybridizing and her transition from the corporate world to daylilies at:
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S213036.shtml?cat=1&v=1
Springwood Gardens is pleased to offer the following:
2008 SPRING INTRODUCTIONS
2003-2007 INTRODUCTIONS - Click here to see all previous introductions, They are now listed all together in this link with current catalogue prices. Hopefully, this will make it easier for you to find a specific plant, since you will no longer need to click on each introduction year or guess what year a plant was introduced. Please note that prices have been deleted from the individual pages for each introduction, and are just on the master list in 2003-2007 INTRODUCTIONS.
Please click here for SALES INFORMATION and an ORDER FORM.
If you'd still like to see the introductions grouped by individual year, please click on the following links - but note that the links do not show current prices, which are now all on the master list above.
2007 SPRING INTRODUCTIONS
2006 SPRING INTRODUCTIONS
2005 SPRING INTRODUCTIONS
2004 SPRING INTRODUCTIONS
2003 SPRING INTRODUCTIONS
All Springwood Gardens daylily introductions are tested and evaluated outside. A greenhouse is used to produce seed and propagate plants being sold, so that shipping can commence before early June. :-) A small number of Springwood introductions are aimed primarily at hybridizers or zones farther south, so please read the descriptions carefully.
You might be interested in what the future holds:
POSSIBLE FUTURE INTRODUCTIONS
- these seedlings are in the later stages of testing and/or multiplication and may be introduced at some point in the future.
OTHER SEEDLINGS OF INTEREST – Karol grows about 5000-6000 new seedlings each year. The following seedlings are a sampling of the bloom, and will give you an idea of the genetics being used. Karol’s goal is to put these kinds of faces on strong, well-branched, northern hardy plants. The 1999-2006 greenhouse seedlings pictured below have all been moved outside for testing. Some have already been introduced, some will be introduced in the near future (see POSSIBLE FUTURE INTRODUCTIONS link above), some are still being watched, and some have been moved into the display area (budcount is too low to introduce, but the faces are too beautiful to part with). However, most of them are just a nice memory, as they failed to meet all of the criteria for selection as an introduction.
2007 GREENHOUSE SEEDLINGS
2006 GREENHOUSE SEEDLINGS
2005 GREENHOUSE SEEDLINGS
2004 GREENHOUSE SEEDLINGS
2003 GREENHOUSE SEEDLINGS
1999-2002 GREENHOUSE SEEDLINGS
Karol loves the process of naming a daylily (in fact, being able to name daylilies is the reason she started hybridizing), and she tries hard to match the name with the face. Most of her DAYLILY
NAMES have multiple meanings, ranging from serious to playful. Click on the link to see what’s behind the name of each new introduction.
