HOMEPLACE GARDENS
Ken & Cindy Dye
5532 Bud Wilson Road, Gastonia, NC 28056
704.867.0851 | Hpgardens@aol.com

CAROLINE’S KISS *

( K. Dye 09 ) This dormant lavender tet has a 6” bloom on a 28” tall well branched scape and 20 buds. It won the 2008 REGION 15 SEEDLING AWARD. A full sib to C. SONG , it is bigger and more triangular in form. The violet blue watermark is outlined in a deeper violet and the green throat shines. It is the total package being both pod and pollen fertile…..large single divisions…..$100.00

CAROLINE’S SONG *

( K Dye 09 ) This dormant lavender tet has an open formed flower of 5” with a 28” tall scape sporting 3 to 4 branches and 20 buds. The blue violet watermark is outlined in a deeper blue violet but the peridot green throat makes this a true show off in the garden. It is very pod and pollen fertile. Selling large blooming size single divisions (CLAUDINE‘S CHARM X SLIM SHADY)….$100.00

HOMEPLACE DEBUTANTE *

( C. Dye 09 ) This tet beauty queen has perfect bagel form with rounded to blunt sepals and triple edges on the heavily ruffled petals. Base color is lavender with pink undertones. The feathered blue violet eyezone on this remarkable 5 ½” flower is outlined in a darker shade of violet which is carried into the edge. The 2 shades of violet in the edge are surrounded by gold teeth, bubbles and protrusions.  It is semi - evergreen and 25” tall with 4 branches and 20 buds. Very fertile. (DYLAN DYE X MILDRED MITCHELL )….$150.00

RUTH HOLBROOK *

( C. Dye 09 ) FALL RELEASEThis heavily ruffled tet never has a problem opening on its own. It is named for a lovely Piedmont Gal and sports a 4 ½” rounded peachy bloom with huge looping ruffles framing a slightly carved sculptured face. The green throat is there beneath its ruffled center. It is 28” tall and has 3 to 4 branches with a wide terminal Y. A vigorous semi- evergreen grower with 22 buds. (HOMEPLACE ANGEL FACE X SPECTRAL ELEGANCE )…$100.00

SUE GAMBLE *

( C. Dye 09 ) Honoring a ‘spunky’ Piedmont gal, this flower will not be overlooked. It is a full sib to H DEBUTANTE but is taller and larger at 6” and has a different shape. It grows 28” tall and the blue in the eyezone is carried onto the edge and into some veining on the flower face. The sepals will often flare out instead of recurving. A vigorous grower and fertile as well. Nicely branched and blooming over a long period of time……$100.00

SLIM SHADY

(Ken Dye 08) This extra large tet is from SWALLOWTAIL KITE × VICTORIAN DAYS and has been of interst to many visitors especially those breeding for big or unusual forms. It is quite fertile and the seedlings show various throat patterns. It is not a UF but behaves like a huge flat open in your face flower just like its namesake. The silver eyezones it breeds are very nice, too. It is a constant 7" x 28". The semi evergreen to dormant foliage is wide and full. It sports 3 top branches and there is much green in the throat most of the day. It has a double edge but it is not prominent. The silver shadings add to the cool shady appearance. $50.00

SPEAKING OF SPECKLED

(C. Dye 08) This diploid from LAVENDER BLUE BABY × WILLARD GARDNER MEMORIAL stayed around while I decided what in the world to do with it. It has the cool blue shadings of LBB but with a consistent speckling across the flower surface. This forms stipes, splotches, dots, spots, and so forth on every flower every time. So with the recent interest in stiping I thought this might be another tool in that categoy for breeding color breaks. It is 4" x 28" with 4 branches and 18 or so buds and thus a nice performer in the mid late category. It defifes descriptions so I will let the picture speak for itself. $50.00

LILAC U CARE

(C. Dye) This super performing diploid combines all the right genetics of FORSYTHE FLAMING SNOW, SUSAN WEBER, and SEAL OF APPROVAL. It is a kid of the very sought after LINDA GLUCK but with attributes of its own. While LG was a pink and white variety, LILAC U CARE is a fantastic 6 ¾" lavender with a large white watermark which extends way out onto the flower surface. It is the total package. Great foliage, good height at 30 inches, good bud count around 20, wide open spaced branches, good form, and is dormant. I was chatised by friends who felt that I set my price on LINKDA GLUCK too low. I am from the old school where diploids were not as monetarily valuable as tetraploids but that all seems to be changing. So I will again irritate some folks (while thrilling others) as I set the price for this wonderful offering at $75.00.

See multiple bloom picture below

I TOLD YOU SO

(K. Dye) This is Ken's first venture into daylily breeding. He has always been an off the cuff pollen dabber but in the last few years has begun to reap the benefits of some "out there" crosses. He likes to take chances. I know you are wondering about the name. It is a light hearted jab at his wife of 31 years (me). When Ken began to experiment with using the older Childs's cultivars that were way ahead of their time in a search for blue, I often lamented (kin word) about his spending so much time in reverse. And then htis 9" Unusual Form diploid with a hint of lavender blue bloomed and stole the show. What a knockout! It has it all. At 28" tall, it sports 3 to 4 way branching and a wide green eyezone that holds most of the day. It is a cross of my PROMOTED TO GLORY × FELLOW. It is not as dormant as PTG but is still close to dormant here. My own PTG also had BLUE VENTURE in it from the Childs line. Its bluish tint was impossible for an amateur photography like myself to capture. This was not a digital image. $75.00

HOMEPLACE BULL'S EYE*

(C. Dye 03) This is a cross of ALL FIRED UP X (CHEROKEE PASS x FORSYTHE POLYNESIAN SUNSET). It is 26" tall, with 3 short branches, 15 buds, sev, rebloomer, em, 5" flower, and combines the best of the parents with a more intense color saturation on the edges and eyezone. The color is a tangerine gold blend with a green throat and a bold red eye. The edge is red outlined in some gold. BULL'S EYE blooms just above the foliage. It is fertile both ways.... $30.00

SKULLDUGGERY*

(C. Dye 04) In this political world we live in, it seems all too common, and in this election year it seems fitting to remind oneself that things are not always as they seem! This flower on the other hand is just as the picture presents it. It is a cross of CALICO JACK X DESPERADO LOVE but is larger than both. It is 30" tall, has 3 branches, evergreen foliage, and a 6 1/2" flower of yellow with a big maroon eye. With 16 buds, it has my vote!... $30