Alliums

Mary Baker

7114 S 49th St

Omaha NE 68157-2273

maryskbaker@gmail.com

No allium shipping/sales to Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington. We are a licensed and inspected Nebraska daylily, allium, and daffodil nursery. 

Shipping & handling: $18 for the first daylily or first three alliums or first three daffodils; $3 for each additional daylily or three additional alliums or three additional daffodils. Nebraska residents add 7% sales tax. Payment: Checks or money orders only, payable to Mary Baker. Please contact me via email before placing your order to ensure availability.

Alliums are carefree and easy to grow. They attract butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. We intersperse them throughout our garden. We ship alliums in May along with your daylily order. We offer two varieties of alliums: A. lusitanicum 'Blue Skies' and A. senescens glaucum, see details and pics below.

Allium lusitanicum 'Blue Skies' and painted lady butterflies

Allium lusitanicum 'Blue Skies' and painted lady butterfly

Allium lusitanicum 'Blue Skies' forms a neat, round clump with shiny, strap-like leaves. Pale lavender-blue flowers bloom in midsummer on 18 inch to 24 inch stems, attracting pollinators. Three bare-root blooming-size divisions for $25.

Allium senescens glaucum and painted lady butterflies

Allium senescens glaucum

Allium senescens glaucum (corkscrew allium) is a good fall blooming front-row border plant that attracts pollinators. Three bare-root blooming-size divisions for $25.

Daffodils

Mary Baker

7114 S 49th St
Omaha NE 68157-2273

maryskbaker@gmail.com

No daffodil shipping/sales to Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, or Oregon.
We are a licensed and inspected Nebraska daylily, allium, and daffodil nursery.  

Shipping & handling: $18 for the first daylily or first three alliums or first three daffodils; $3 for each additional daylily or three additional alliums or three additional daffodils. Nebraska residents add 7% sales tax. Payment: Checks or money orders only, payable to Mary Baker. Please contact me via email before placing your order to ensure availability.

Daffodils are carefree and easy to grow. Deer and rabbits avoid them. There are many reputable sources for daffodils. We specialize in daffodils that are not easy to find and ship them in May along with your daylily order. We offer three daffodil cultivars: Narcissus 'Actaea', N. 'Kassels Gold', and N. 'Stylish'; see details and pics below.

Narcissus 'Actaea' (G. Lubbe and son, before 1919)

Narcissus 'Actaea' (G. Lubbe and son, before 1919)

Narcissus 'Actaea' (G. Lubbe and son, before 1919)

N. 'Actaea' is glistening white a with very shallow ribbed yellow corona with greenish yellow at the base and a band of orange-red at the rim. This historic Poeticus daffodil has won multiple awards, including the Wister in 2012. It is the latest-blooming daffodil in our garden. Three bare-root bulbs for $20.

Narcissus 'Kassels Gold' (Nic. Dofferhof, 1984)

Narcissus 'Kassels Gold' (Nic. Dofferhof, 1984)

N. 'Kassels Gold' has bright, almost day-glow blooms with brilliant greenish yellow perianth segments and a vivid yellow corona with a slightly darker color at the rim. Trumpet long-cupped. I fell in love with this when I first saw it at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, and was lucky to track down the importer and purchase a few bulbs from him. His nursery was about to open when he passed away. This daffodil is very difficult to find, and it is my favorite out of all the daffodils I grow. It is vigorous and naturalizes well. Parents are Dominator X Golden Harvest. Limited. Three bare-root bulbs for $25.

Narcissus 'Stylish' (Phil and Graham Phillips, 1975)

Narcissus 'Stylish' (Phil and Graham Phillips, 1975)

Narcissus 'Stylish' (Phil and Graham Phillips, 1975)

N. 'Stylish' has oblong overlapped light orange perianth segments with a lightly ribbed strong orange corona. Large-cupped. This luscious daffodil reminds us of butterscotch, and we've not seen another daffodil with colors quite like it. Limited. Three bare-root bulbs for $20.

About Us--Welcome to Mary Baker's Garden!

I love growing daylilies hybridized by others. After a local hybridizer scolded me about wasting potential kids from the many cutting-edge daylilies in my garden, I started hybridizing out of guilt. It's fun and exciting to see my new seedlings bloom, but I have a love/hate relationship with hybridizing because my seedlings require space that could be occupied by other hybridizers' daylilies.

Primary goals are full-formed and unusual form tetraploid daylilies of all sizes with good substance; vibrant green throats; and clear, clean colors. My late mentor and friend, Oscie Whatley, often said a green throat makes a daylily stand out from a distance, especially if the daylily is red. My garden has very little shade, so I breed for daylilies with good sun resistance.

The new 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map updated our hardiness zone to 6a, and our zone 6a urban island is surrounded by hardiness zone 5b. Daylilies, daffodils, alliums, lilies, unusual perennials, and wild flowers grow in our heavy clay soil without mulch or other protection. They endure cold winters without consistent snow cover (often like a frozen desert) and frequent freeze/thaws, followed by hot/humid summers (often with little rainfall). Daylilies are amazingly tough. We intersperse milkweed and dill for monarch, swallowtail, and other butterflies to enjoy.

Click HERE to read a write-up about Mary Baker's Garden on the ADS Region One Blog.