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CROSS VIEW GARDENS
While the garden business is relatively new to us, working the land isn’t. Our home has been in our family for close to 100 years, passed from one generation to the next. For most of that time, the property was a working dairy farm. It is only in the last 20 years, that the dairy herd has been absent from the land. As times changed, it became impossible to sustain the family business. For several years the only remaining livestock on the farm has been 3 registered Morgan horses, bred and raised by Harold’s mother. We call them our “live lawn ornaments” or “portable fertilizer factories”. Basically they just need to fulfill our desire to retain a bit of our past, and provide us with needed organic matter for the many gardens that have grown up where once the dairy cattle roamed.
When our home came to us, the third generation, it had the typical planting of "ditch lilies" and “flag” iris around the back foundation. No nonsense flowers that just grew and bloomed, and didn't demand attention. As our children grew up and became more and more independent, we began to spend more and more time with a hobby of our own. Our simple backyard garden rapidly increased in size, and where once the vegetables grew, soon was home to many daylilies. It was only a short time after this transformation from vegetables to daylilies began that we discovered that there were other people like "us". We soon joined AHS and NEDS (New England Daylily Society) and realized that our journey down the daylily path had just begun. Leila & Harold Cross
email Cross View Gardens
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Cross View Gardens is a small privately owned garden in north central Vermont. We are currently preparing to apply for AHS Display Garden status. We grow approximately 1700 daylily cultivars along with numerous other perennials (companion plants). Our garden is zone 4a, and our collection has cultivars from the early introductions up to many of the latest and greatest from our modern day hybridizers. We grow all forms and foliage types. 
