By Floyd Cove Nursery Mornings on a hybridizing daylily farm do not begin with alarms or inboxes. They begin with light. The kind that filters across the beds, wakes the scapes, and reminds you that every day in the garden brings something new to discover. Our mornings have become the heart of our learning. They are where we observe, evaluate, adjust, and grow, right alongside the daylilies. Before the kids are fully awake and the rest of the world gets busy, the farm is quiet in the way only...

By Floyd Cove Nursery When most people think of Florida, they picture beaches, palm trees, and theme parks. But for daylily hybridizers and growers like us, Florida offers something even better: the perfect environment to create, test, and grow exceptional daylilies. Zone 9b may not be famous for its mild temperate seasons or slow, gentle spring, but what it does offer is a hybridizer’s dream combination of long growing seasons, strong sunlight, and fast plant development. In other words, it...

By Floyd Cove Nursery: 2026 Introductions Spotlight Series Every now and then, a seedling shows up in the garden and makes you stop in your tracks. Not because it is pretty or polite or classically elegant, but because it is bold, unpredictable, and just a little bit wild. Electric Octopus is that seedling. From the moment it bloomed, we knew this one was different. It made us lean in closer, laugh out loud, and say, “Okay… what ARE you?” It stood out so strongly that it earned its place as...