Marlette Daylilies
Graham, NC

Located on NC-87 south of Graham, Marlette Daylilies is an AHS Display Garden (the first in Alamance County), a daylily nursery growing 1,300+ daylilies with an acre of daylily beds, and a farm that is as renowned locally for producing outstanding sweet potatoes as it is for producing beautiful daylilies. Sunny grass pathways, wide enough for golf carts, separate the many display and sales beds. In the summer and fall Dr. Frances Marlette or husband Gordon can frequently be seen carting customers around the large sales garden or dropping off freshly dug daylilies. Pecan trees creating a shady sitting area where customers can shelter from the sun screen the daylily beds.

Marlette Daylilies specializes in award winning daylilies such as STRAWBERRY CANDY and in Spider and Unusual Form daylilies like BIMINI TWIST and LOLA BRANHAM. Older and recent cultivars are both on view. Also some of the harder to find cultivars of Hazel and Everett Dougherty, such as STOLEN TREASURE and INDIAN RIPPLE, and of Jerry Dickerson, such as HENRY BOUDENARD, can be seen at Marlette Daylilies.

Frances and Gordon Marlette are both AHS Garden Judges and Frances is a Junior Exhibition Judge. Gordon and Frances Marlette hybridize daylilies as a team and registered their first introductions in 2000 using the prefix MARLETTE. Two special Marlette introductions are MARLETTE BEAU HUNTER and MARLETTE BEAUCATCHER named after their twin grandsons. Other recent introductions are MARLETTE GRAPESTOMPER, MARLETTE PADDLE WHEEL, and MARLETTE PETTICOAT.

The Region 15 seedling bed is at Marlette Daylilies.