Welcome to Jubilee Gardens!
We are closed for sales. Enjoy the pictures of the beautiful plants we have grown. Many are registered award winners (See Award Winners above). Jubilee means "season of rejoicing"! Any time beautiful flowers are blooming is truly a season for rejoicing! Thank you for visiting our web page. Judy & Madison
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For the Love of Iris
by Judy Tapio We till, we plant, we fertilize. We lime, we weed, we fungicide. We ward off bugs and voles and more. We order our kids to play next door. We lose some tags and break some stalks. We cry when we find signs of rot. We pray through rain, through wind, through hail. We wait, we beg, we must prevail. When finally we see those blooms. Our hearts will leap, we act like loons! Some blooms delight, while others amaze. Many we find have got the wrong names! Once they're through, we search for more. We pick new ones to come to our door! We've got it bad, we're hooked of course, But there are habits that are so much worse! Some tell us that iris grow easily, But we know so much differently. A few days of beauty that makes us all smile, Makes all that work seem so worthwhile! How Do I Choose a "Good" Iris or Daylily??? It's pretty much impossible for a gardener to know how to choose a good plant by just looking at a picture. It may look beautiful, but does it grow well, bloom well, stand up to various conditions, etc? For some help, go to our section "Award Winners" on the menu at the top of this page. There are six lists: 1) Dykes Award winners - best Iris voted each year by judges 2) Wister Award winners - top three Tall Bearded Iris voted for each year by judges 3) 100 Most Popular Tall Bearded Iris voted for each year by every day gardeners who are members of the American Iris Society 4) Iris Hall of Fame - Iris that are among the top five vote-getters for three out of five consecutive years in the "America's Choice" poll. There are currently 30 iris in the Hall of Fame. 5) Stout Medalist winners - best day lily voted by judges each year 6) Lennington Award winners - best performing day lily over a wide geographic area voted each year We haver grown most of these award winners.
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