Shady Rest Garden
Doris and David Bishop
David and Doris Bishop’s garden is situated on 3.5 hilly landscaped acres in Bartow County. Their journey in daylilies began about twenty years ago and soon grew into a garden oasis. Carved from the woods, Shady Rest Gardens became an AHS Display Garden in 2009. They grow about 1400 registered daylily cultivars, most in established clumps, along with hundreds of David’s seedlings. An asphalt drive circles around behind their house and is lined with daylilies, companion plants, shrubs, and trees. Hostas and a large collection of Herrington daylilies surround the Shady Rest, a cabin located along this drive and the garden’s namesake. Terraced beds allow them to grow their daylilies on the sloping hillsides with pathways connecting daylily beds and garden rooms.
The garden comes alive in the spring with blooms of evergreen and deciduous azaleas, camellias, and early spring flowers. Over 600 hostas, numerous Japanese maples, an assortment of hydrangeas, conifers, ferns, Knockout Roses, clematis, coneflowers, bearded and Japanese iris, shrubs, and other companion plants add color and plant variety to the landscape throughout spring, summer, and fall. Visitors will find special surprises throughout the garden. Garden art, fairy gardens, and the Wizard Of Oz daylily bed with its Emerald City add interest to the garden. David and Doris grow over 100 Ned Robert’s cultivars, which will be the first daylilies seen once departing the bus.
There is much to see and enjoy. Even if this is not a first visit, many changes include a large collection of miniature daylilies and the addition of several color theme beds. Stroll through the garden, visit the two goldfish/koi ponds, or rest in a rocking chair on the porch of the Shady Rest and listen to the water flowing from the nearby creek bed and waterfall. Come!
Doris and David Bishop
David and Doris Bishop’s garden is situated on 3.5 hilly landscaped acres in Bartow County. Their journey in daylilies began about twenty years ago and soon grew into a garden oasis. Carved from the woods, Shady Rest Gardens became an AHS Display Garden in 2009. They grow about 1400 registered daylily cultivars, most in established clumps, along with hundreds of David’s seedlings. An asphalt drive circles around behind their house and is lined with daylilies, companion plants, shrubs, and trees. Hostas and a large collection of Herrington daylilies surround the Shady Rest, a cabin located along this drive and the garden’s namesake. Terraced beds allow them to grow their daylilies on the sloping hillsides with pathways connecting daylily beds and garden rooms.
The garden comes alive in the spring with blooms of evergreen and deciduous azaleas, camellias, and early spring flowers. Over 600 hostas, numerous Japanese maples, an assortment of hydrangeas, conifers, ferns, Knockout Roses, clematis, coneflowers, bearded and Japanese iris, shrubs, and other companion plants add color and plant variety to the landscape throughout spring, summer, and fall. Visitors will find special surprises throughout the garden. Garden art, fairy gardens, and the Wizard Of Oz daylily bed with its Emerald City add interest to the garden. David and Doris grow over 100 Ned Robert’s cultivars, which will be the first daylilies seen once departing the bus.
There is much to see and enjoy. Even if this is not a first visit, many changes include a large collection of miniature daylilies and the addition of several color theme beds. Stroll through the garden, visit the two goldfish/koi ponds, or rest in a rocking chair on the porch of the Shady Rest and listen to the water flowing from the nearby creek bed and waterfall. Come!