Long Island Daylily Gardens
Here's your chance to for a sneak preview of some of the beautiful daylily gardens on Long Island. Most are within reasonable proximity of the host hotel.
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The gardens below are scheduled to be convention tour gardens.
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The gardens below are scheduled to be convention open gardens. Click on a garden to see a description and directions from the hotel. If pictures are available, there will be a link following the directions.
| Garden | Open Wed. 7/12 | Open Thu. 7/13 | Open Sun. 7/16 | Open other days |
| Ethel Buccola's garden | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Buck Bucklin's garden | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Clark Botanic Garden | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mary Kay Denman's garden | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Jeff and Ellen Friedman's garden | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Old Westbury Gardens | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chris Petersen's garden | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| John Price and Barbara Kass' garden | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| The Ramsden garden | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Schenk garden | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| The Schmidt garden | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Bob and Mimi Schwarz's garden | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bob Stanton's garden | No | No | Yes | No |
| Stan Tylinski's garden | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Landon and Marilyn Zuckerman's garden | No | No | Yes | No |
Click here for three suggested self guided tours of the open gardens. These tours are selected for proximity and efficiency of travel.
Descriptions of the open gardens are listed below:
Jeff and Ellen Friedman
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(~5.3 miles from hotel)
Only seven minutes from convention headquarters, the garden will be open from 10 am to 5 pm on Thursday and Sunday.
Jeff is a second generation daylily person. His parents, George and Nettie, were among the first members of the Long Island Daylily Society. Jeff is the current New York State Director of the Hosta Society and a Long Island Daylily Society Board Member.
The garden features daylilies, hosta, exotic annuals, dwarf conifers, Japanese maples and other perennials. The bi-level deck provides a panoramic view of this gem of a garden.
John Price and Barbara Kass
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(~12.8 miles from hotel)
A lovely suburban garden with 200 varieties of daylilies. We have a hosta garden, a woodland garden and a daylily species garden. We are new to daylilies and are just beginning to hybridize. So, please come to see the garden, have some hors d’oeuvres and a Margarita, and let’s talk daylilies! The garden will be open Thursday and Sunday from 1 to 5 pm.
Bob Stanton
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(~4.4 miles from hotel)
Bob has a small, informal suburban garden in Plainview with over three hundred named cultivars, as well as, numerous seedlings. Other highlights include zinnias and dahlias. The garden will be open Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.
Landon and Marilyn Zuckerman
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(~3.8 miles from hotel)
A colorful garden with seventy-five varieties of daylilies set among hosta, nepeta, phlox, various hydrangeas and other perennials with collections of potted plants featuring White Flower Farm combinations. A unique gardening feature is the treatment of shade that moves across the garden during the day. Bring your lunch and enjoy it in our shaded garden. The garden will be open Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm.
Mary Kay Denman
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(~5.5 miles from hotel)
Twenty years ago I began a garden on my one-half acre corner lot. I followed the excellent English gardener and writer Christopher Lloyd’s advice as I faced a large, empty prepared soil area: “Concentrate on making beautiful small pictures.” Slowly my all-season garden emerged over the years with meandering paths through different “rooms” or micro-environments that give plant its cultural requirements as they are found in their natural habitat. All of this experience with plants became the basis for my work in the last ten years as a perennial specialist for local nurseries.
Now, my mature garden reflects my many stages of collecting plants, i.e. astilbes, ferns, hosta, sempervivums, etc.. Then, in 1990, I discovered daylilies and ordered from Gilbert Wild’s. In 1996, I joined LIDS and you know what happened next. I have collected various hybridizer’s daylilies with a special island bed for Munson creations and others by Carpenter, Yancy, Lambert, and Carter in particular. Now I yearn for and collect unusual forms and spiders. In several areas of the garden, the other perennials have become attractive backdrops for the beautiful daylilies.
You are welcome to bring a bag lunch and sit in the shade by one of the two ponds and enjoy views of the garden. The garden will be open on Thursday and Sunday from 11 am to 4 pm.
Stan
Tylinski
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( ~13.5 miles from hotel)
Stan is the Vice-President of the Tri-State Hosta Society. He, like so many gardeners, has vacillated from hems to hostas back to hems and vice-versa. He hybridizes hostas for streaked leaves or all yellow. The daylilies are earmarked for late bloom periods. With two acres, there is a vast assortment of shrubs, trees, vines, bamboo and perennials. The huge groves of hostas, both old and new, as well as twenty varieties of hydrangeas dominate the winding paths. His homemade jams are a hallmark of his horticultural endeavors boasting twenty different flavors. The garden will be open Thursday and Sunday 10 am – 5 pm.
Chris Petersen
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(~14.2 miles from hotel)
Enjoyed, but not gardened by hubby Steve Widom, son Jaron and a complete Noah’s Ark of pets!
Chris’ garden, situated in the Village of Asharoken (pop. 625), is located on scenic Northport Harbor, adjacent to the picture-postcard village of Northport on Long Island’s North Shore. The beachfront is 200’ wide, yet the property is over 1500’ in length ( a portion of the land extends out into the bay). As you turn onto the long, gravel driveway ( oftentimes referred to as “Bunny Lane”) you will notice native plants such as prickly pear, beach plum, bayberry, black pine, Eastern red cedar and oaks that inhabit the sandy terrain. Closer to the house, the cultivated garden “rooms” begin. Over 400 varieties of daylilies share beds with a plant connoisseur’s menagerie of hundreds of unique perennials, grasses, bulbs, trees and shrubs. These plants along with a collection of over 100 named hosta are marked with plant labels, so bring your notebook to jot down your favorites!
Visitors must meander along the paths to discover the koi pond or venture under an arbor to discover the Yew Garden where all the flowers are white or near white including twenty-seven daylily cultivars! Other beds have themes such as the “Hot Red Bed” or the “Birdhouse Garden.” The newest garden is a stone walled bed dedicated to spiders and unusual forms! Scattered around the garden are containers that spill over with unusual annuals, tropical plants and herbs.
But nature provides the crowning jewel of the garden with its expansive view of the harbor complete with waterfowl, jingle shells, sailing vessels and hopefully, a glorious sea breeze and blue skies! The garden will be open Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. Call to arrange other times. Please observe the speed limit in the village. It is strictly enforced!
Tom and Carol Ramsden
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(~20 miles from hotel)
Welcome to Long Island. Our garden will be open for visitors on Monday through Thursday before the Convention and again on Sunday. We will be open from 9 am to 6 pm each day. We have approximately 919 varieties in a garden setting with many specimen trees, shrubs, perennials and a small fish pond. We feature a complete Stout Medal garden bed and have 63 doubles, 27 minis, 42 spiders and 37 unusual forms. This year we even added a garden train! Come sit in our gazebo and enjoy Long Island.
Jeff and Paula Schmidt
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(~34.3
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We have an extensive garden with over 400 varieties of daylilies, hundreds of hostas and ferns among other perennials. Bring lunch with your bathing suit, a towel and sunscreen for a splash in the pool. Plenty of parking is available. We are only two miles from Smithpoint Beach. The garden will be open Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. Call to arrange other times.
W. F. “Buck” Bucklin and Pat Mahoney
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(~78.4 miles from hotel, 2 hour drive)
Sherwood Lane Garden, a backyard garden, is on one-half acre of land situated in Springs, a “suburb” of East Hampton. There are approximately 750 registered daylilies from the 1960’s to 2006 in nine beds. One hundred reputed polytepals and 125 John Lambert cultivars are featured along with over 50 named hostas, many hydrangea, assorted annuals and perennials and some seedlings.
The garden will be open Sunday, July 9 through Wednesday, July 12th from 9 am. On Sunday, the 16th, the garden will open at noon. For other dates please call Buck Bucklin or Pat Mahoney at (631) 324-5713.
Bob and Mimi Schwarz
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(~76.9 miles from hotel, 2 hour drive)
The garden of Bob and Mimi Schwarz is in East Hampton on the eastern end of Long Island. They own an AHS display garden with nearly 500 cultivars arranged in herbaceous borders backed by native cedars and hemlocks and drifts of rhododendrons and a “green” garden of ornamental grasses. Thousands of seedlings from Mimi’s full form and Bob’s unusual form programs will be in bloom in their seedling patch.
The garden will be open before the convention (open for bus tour visitors only on 7/13-12 –2 pm), from noon on Sunday, 7/16 and all of the next week.
Ethel Buccola*
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(~53 miles from hotel)
There are 500+ daylilies in beds arranged in many different shapes and sizes throughout the one acre Buccola garden. It is also a Certified National Wildlife Garden and is interplanted with Long Island native plants and many flowers and other plants to attract birds and butterflies. Numerous other trees, shrubs and flowers surround a large pool. This beautifully planned garden was designed and is maintained by the owner.
The garden will be open July 12th, 13th and 16th from 10 am to 4 pm.
Barbara Schenk
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(~8.1 miles from the hotel)
This garden has been described by those who have enjoyed it as a “beautiful backyard garden”. In addition to the more than 250 named daylilies in the garden, there are lovely specimen trees and an abundance of perennials and grasses to set them off. With a sweeping lawn, the beds provide a delight to the eyes. To the left of the sunny deck is a graceful Japanese Stewartia; at the rear of the garden, an American Redbud and a Honey Locust, a sweet reminder of my childhood in Brooklyn, NY. Follow the path through the beds, then rest awhile in the shade, enjoying the broad vistas. The daylilies announce themselves as you turn the corner onto Duncan Lane, adding their striking beauty to a swath along the driveway. I hope you will visit Thursday, July 13th or Sunday, July 16th between 10 am and 5 pm.
Clark Botanic Garden
193 I. U. Willets Road
Albertson, NY 11507
(516) 484-8600
(~14.4 miles from the hotel)
The following information comes from the garden's website, http://www.clarkbotanic.org/:
"Founded in 1969, Clark Botanic Garden is a 12-acre living museum and educational facility. We are dedicated to understanding and appreciating the world's plant life through horticulture, education and research. Collections at the garden include native spring wildflowers, conifers, roses, perennials, daylilies, wetland plants, rock garden plants, herbs, butterfly plants, medicinal plants and over a dozen collections of particular plant families."
The daylily garden at Clark Gardens has been completely renovated over the last three years. There are approximately 250 daylilies in the collection, most of them from the last fifteen years. It is well cared for and an excellent display. The garden is open daily from 10 am to 4 pm.
DIRECTIONS: Exit the hotel, and go south on Old Walt Whitman Road to the Long Island Expressway (I-495). Turn right onto the westbound service road, and enter the expressway. Leave at Exit 39, Glen Cove Road. Take the service road to the first traffic light, Glen Cove Road, and turn left. Take Glen Cove Road south to I. U. Willets Road, and turn right. Take I. U. Willets road west; the entrance to Clark Gardens is on the right, just before the railroad tracks. (If you cross the tracks, you went a bit too far.)
Old Westbury Gardens
71 Old Westbury Road
Old Westburt, NY 11568
(516) 333-0048
Visit the gardens' website http://www.oldwestburygardens.org/ for information. Note that there is a $10 per person admission fee.
DIRECTIONS: Exit the hotel, and go south on Old Walt Whitman Road to the Long Island Expressway (I-495). Turn right onto the westbound service road, and enter the expressway. Leave at Exit 40W, Jericho Turnpike westbound. Proceed on Jericho Turnpike to Old Westbury Road. (Hicks Nursery will be on the left before you reach Old Westbury Road. Turn right on Old Westbury Road. The entrance to the garden is on the right, just after the all way stop sign.