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Nan Ripley : Walkabout GardensScheduled at Walkabout Gardens "in the Garden" Events: My husband Merwyn Ripley and I have lived on 10 acres in rural Iowa since 1965. I retired from Iowa State University in 2003, where I was the Office Manager for the Athletic Compliance Department, to spend more time with my passions: gardening, hybridizing daylilies, watercolor painting, photography, and family. Being an active member of the National Conifer Society, Iowa Regional Lily Society, Ames Garden Club, Iowa Arboretum Plant Collection Management Committee and Board, Co-hort Member at Iowa State University Reiman Gardens, Master Gardener since 1994, landscape consultant with the National Garden Clubs, Garden Judge and instructor for the American Hemerocallis Society, and having our garden be an American Hemerocallis Society National Display Garden keeps me busy all year. Walkabout Gardens will also be a new variety display garden for Ball Seed once again in 2011. I like writing articles on gardening and perennials and have done so for several newspapers, journals, and magazines. Teaching a class on hybridizing in our Walkabout Gardens every July is a joy. I am now the AHS Director of Region One and Chair of the Educational Outreach program for AHS. I am looking forward to all the great new things that are coming from AHS. Each spring I design and plant a new garden area for the seedlings, along with many unusual annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees. I love searching for new and different plants to add to the gardens. Approximately 3,000 seedlings are planted each spring, and remain in the garden beds for 3 years for evaluation. The gardens are usually refreshed and replanted with new seedlings during the fourth year. My hybridizing program was one of the featured articles in the December 2009
"Daylily Journal". To date, I have 15 daylily introductions. We ship from
end of May until November 1st. We also have a daylily seedling sale in July
in the garden (email or call for the date). Nan Ripley |