From the Summer of 1995 through the end of July 2001, I was an AHS Display Garden and a selling garden. 'Birds and Blooms' magazine published an article in their July 1996 issue entitled 'PERFECT PLACE FOR A DAY TRIP' by Lori-Ann Jones. The article was about AHS Display Gardens and how to find one near you to visit. Our RVP at the time told me that she was inundated with many requests from people asking where they could go and see Display Gardens.  She continued to get requests many years after that article was written. She told me something like "That magazine doesn’t get thrown away, it just gets passed along." At the end of 2002, I had to stop being a selling garden because of a car accident. With my husband's help, I was still able to hybridize, start and plant my seedlings.

Fellow hybridizers have encouraged me to introduce my seedlings in hopes of making available more TET UFO’s and Spiders currently in commerce, hopefully, helping to somewhat relieve the struggle we hybridizers are having with hardiness and pod fertility in the North.

My main goal has been to hybridize for Tetraploid Unusual Forms and Spiders that are pod & pollen fertile and that can stand our zone 5 winters. Living next to a pond, with sometimes no snow cover, 50 mile an hour winds. and with below zero temperatures does cause real hardships to a daylily.  So, hardiness is a prerequisite. I have acquired my hardy stock, not by conversions, but hybridizing by combining older (1970’s) and newer Tetraploid daylily varieties. My daylilies are only guaranteed ZONE 5 HARDY.