Amador Flower Farm hosts annual Daylily Days with tram tours and barbecue
Daylilies in profusion will be on view this weekend at Amador Flower Farm, in the heart of Amador County's wine country. Debbie Arrington
This weekend, June 22 and 23, the 14-acre farm is at its peak of bloom with row after row of colorful daylilies covered with flowers – the best time to hold Daylily Days. Admission is free and the farm will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. (No pets are allowed.)
Located in the heart of Amador wine country and surrounded by vineyards, the flower farm invites visitors to take a garden break from wine tasting and relax under 300-year-old heritage oaks. Besides the vast daylily fields, see 4 acres of landscaped demonstration gardens with examples of how to incorporate more water-wise daylilies and other perennials into suburban gardens.
During these annual Daylily Days, visitors enjoy free tram tours as well as a chance to walk and picnic among the many blooms. The farm’s nursery offers more than 1,000 varieties of daylilies for sale and many more varieties grow in the fields.
Daylily Days also includes a garden fair with several vendors, hourly demonstrations and a barbecue.
It’s a celebration of daylilies and garden fun, say the Deaver family, the farm’s owners. “Join the flower farm family for picnicking, demonstrations, shopping, garden-wandering, and free tram ride tours of the farm. There will be hourly gardening demonstrations, garden art artisans, and idea gardens full of unique perennials to delight visitors. Gardening demonstrations about daylilies, the art of bonsai, and unusual air plants will interest curious gardeners.
“Food will be available for sale from our local 4H kids,” they add, “or folks are welcome to pack a picnic.
“The 14-acre farm is alive with color at this time of the year as the daylilies explode in shades of red, orange, yellow, pink, purple and more,” they note. “Stroll the garden paths, find inspiration for your own garden, relax under the oaks, and join in celebrating the daylily!”
Amador Flower Farm is located at 22001 Shenandoah School Road, Plymouth, about an hour from downtown Sacramento.
From Sacramento, take Jackson Road (Highway 16) east towards Plymouth, merging onto Highway 49 for 2.4 miles. At the roundabout, take the first right onto E16/Shenandoah Road. Continue 4.2 miles and turn right on Shenandoah School Road.
Picnic tables may be reserved for a small fee for parties of six or more. Call 209-245-6660.
Details and more on daylilies: https://www.amadorflowerfarm.com/.
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Get out early to enjoy those nice mornings. There’s plenty to keep gardeners busy:
* Warm weather brings rapid growth in the vegetable garden, with tomatoes and squash enjoying the heat. Deep-water, then feed with a balanced fertilizer. Bone meal or rock phosphate can spur the bloom cycle and help set fruit.
* Generally, tomatoes need deep watering two to three times a week, but don’t let them dry out completely. Inconsistent soil moisture can encourage blossom-end rot.
* It’s not too late to transplant tomatoes, peppers or eggplant.
* From seed, plant corn, melons, pumpkins, radishes, squash and sunflowers.
* Plant basil to go with your tomatoes.
* Transplant summer annuals such as petunias, marigolds and zinnias.
* It’s also a good time to transplant perennial flowers including astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia, salvia and verbena.
* Feed camellias, azaleas and other acid-loving plants. Mulch to conserve moisture and reduce heat stress.
* Cut back Shasta daisies after flowering to encourage a second bloom in the fall.
* Trim off dead flowers from rose bushes to keep them blooming through the summer. Roses also benefit from deep watering and feeding now. A top dressing of aged compost will keep them happy. It feeds as well as keeps roots moist.
* Pinch back chrysanthemums for bushier plants with many more flowers in September.
* Tie up vines and stake tall plants such as gladiolus and lilies. That gives their heavy flowers some support.
* Dig and divide crowded bulbs after the tops have died down.
* Feed summer flowers with a slow-release fertilizer.
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