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Moon GardenMarge Moon, assisted by her 96 year old mother has put together an impressive informal garden of shrubs and perennials featuring over
500 daylily cultivars and 100 different hosta. Her collection includes many newer varieties from Abajian, Stamile, Rasmussen,
Moldovan and many others. Marge loves her spiders, doubles, and unusual forms, and you will see many here. Special features are
many well-used farming tools complete with garden quips, hand painted bird houses, and a special “Moon” garden. There are lots
daylilies and gardening inspirations here!
Garden of Tappan Hill
Tappen Hill was a strawberry meadow in 1966 when Audrey Zeh and Christl
Schmidt purchased the home and set about landscaping the property. Several
flowering shrubs, a small fruit crop, and the huge oak tree are the only
remnants of the original garden.
Daylilies representing over 80 hybridizers
and a full range of forms bloom from June to September throughout the garden.
You will be pleased to see a large number of recent introductions from northern
and southern hybridizers, including a bed added to observe and test Florida
hybridizer Gunda Abajian's seedlings. Rounding out the garden and
providing color and foliage interest are many shade tolerant shrubs and
perennials, including a fine hosta collection. In sunnier areas, roses,
lilacs, and clematis are the latest acquisitions to delight visitors with
fragrance and beauty.
Garden of John and Avis Randall
The Randall Garden is 54 years in the making, and here you will see daylilies grown to perfection in large clumps, carefully
interspersed with a nice selection of shrubs, evergreens and perennials. John prefers the wide petaled “bagel” flowers, mostly
in tetraploids, but he includes a selection of other forms as well. Many of the clumps are relatively new introductions from the
last three or four years. The garden is patrolled by Toby, the cat, who does a fine job of keeping rodents at bay!
Garden of Carol Volungus
Carol’s informal landscape reflects how many of us garden. We purchase a plant and then find a place to put it! Carol does
have a bed of Pauline Henry’s Siloams, a bed of Leo Sharp’s Brookwoods, and a fine collection of doubles, her favorite, in their
own garden. The remainder of her gardens mix daylilies from the 1940’s to the present with a wide variety of perennials and annuals.
Carol gardens for her own pleasure, and her enjoyment of beautiful daylilies is very evident. She is occasionally assisted by
her granddaughter Leiloni, but primarily her gardening is a solo endeavor. She laughingly says her husband mostly helps by
staying out of the way.
Gardens of
Albany County Cooperative Extension
Here you will find the HADS AHS Display Garden featuring daylilies of Region 4 hybridizers as well as others. But here also are
gardens created by Master Gardeners working through Cornell Cooperative Extension. Exploring a wide range of cultural, sensual,
and visual experiences, these gardens are both a delight and an inspiration for
 any gardener looking to expand their knowledge
of shrubs, perennials, annuals, and herbs. Plants are well maintained and creatively used in combination with other garden features. Here are some more examples of the beautiful Cooperative Extension Gardens created by the Albany County Master Gardeners.
A wide range of horticultural material is used, as well as any number of garden design strategies. You will also see examples
of different garden structures as well as garden ornaments, artfully incorporated.
Three photos by Betsy Thompson
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