Red Lane Gardens 2008
Design and photos
© Nancy Oakes
© Nancy Oakes
Red Lane Gardens is owned and operated (I use that term loosely) by me, Nancy Oakes. RLG started life as Flowering Perennials. Begun as a way to introduce more unusual plants to the gardeners' palette, it evolved into a Daylily nursery once garden centres finally figured out that gardeners wanted something besides Yarrow and Phlox.
I try my best to garden as organically as I can. It was very easy when the Daylily list numbered 70, but now with over 900 cultivars, I have been known to use Round-up and in 1999 when the garden was overrun with Tarnished Plant Bug, I resorted to Cygon on the cultivars that seemed to be the most attractive to them, as well as their favorite food plant, Lamb's Quarters. But for the most part, it's just a lot of manure and stoop labour (note those dirty knees!).
The garden would not be what it is today without the help of friends. I owe Dude, Sherry, AJ (whom we all miss and wish he didn't need a real job!), Adam, Heidi and Laura, our newest working hemaholic, a great big thanks for the time they put in here.
And of course, Ian - my tiller-man and all round best mate.
And of course, Ian - my tiller-man and all round best mate.
