TomsDayLilies.com
Title
Tom's Daylilies
Description
Hi there, we are the Maddox clan, Joyce and Tommy, we live in Biloxi, MS`. We were raised in Laurel, MS, and graduated from high school in 1953. Upon graduation I enlisted in the Air Force and served for 22 years. I retired in the summer of 1975. After I graduated from The University Of Southern Mississippi, I taught for 14 years at Phillips Jr. College in Gulfport Miss, After which I totally retired to gardening (flowers) and fishing. We raised a variety of flowers before concentrating on daylilies. In 1997 we began hybridizing daylilies. We had raised daylilies for about 15 years before we were introduced to hybridizing. Our focus now is in hybridizing tetraploids and a few special diploids that we work with. We raise about 4000 seedlings a year but plan to cut back, HA. I bloom about 40% of my seedlings the first year, by early planting and force feeding with fertilizers and lots of water. I grow my seedlings in gallon buckets, sitting in about one inch of water (small 8X8 foot ponds with plastic bottoms to hold water). Hardly ever need to water. An example of the ponds can be seen on the Daylily section of my site. My wife of 47 years keeps me on the straight and narrow. She is the computer operator and photographer that is so necessary for our daylily craze. I am the past President of the MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST DAYLILY SOCIETY. I have registered my first Daylily, ABILENE NAN (named after my mother). I hope to register about 6 more soon. Please look at some of my seedlings in the Daylily section....
On the left is the head pollen dabber , weed puller, and full time dieter, on the right is the photographer and all around supervisor. She also answers the phone, since I stay busy in one of our 40 beds or so. What started out as a hobby, now is completely out of control, if you know what I mean.
Contact
- On-line Systems
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- Gulfport MS
- United States 39507
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