The internationally known hybridizer, Harald Juhr, is the creator of remarkable new Daylily, Iris and Peonies varieties in our private botanical garden, near Frankfurt, Germany.

Our newest varieties will be published and can be viewed in our "Cultivator’s Corner”". These beautiful new flowers document the very latest in Daylily hybridizing advances. Additional new creations from other breeders are also highlighted in our Garden, for example from Petr Mimranek (Daylilies) from the Czeck Republic as well as the latest advances from several of the best American hybridizers.

Mr. Juhr's Daylily cultivations are registered with the American Hermerocalis Society (AHS) and at that time, given a name, which you see in the other pages of this website (such as "Harald's Creation" 2006, "Taunus Sunshine", "Lothar Parlasca"). Several of these varieties have been reported on in the Daylily Journal in the USA as well as published in the Gladiris-Organisation journal in the Czech Republic.  We will be registering our new Peonies varieties with the American Peonies Society (APS) now, as well.

Over the last 20 years, Mr. Juhr learned about Daylily hybridizing from Mavis and Stewart Smith, John Benz Oscie Whatley, and Pat Stamile, among others. During the last 10 years, Mr. Juhr has expanded his breeding expertise to include Iris, Peonies and Gladiolas. We have presented our results at country-wide garden and flower shows in Germany, the Czech Republic and in Luxemburg.

New varieties displayed on these pages are not for sale and will be primarily used for future hybridizing in our garden. New varieties shown with seed numbers are for information only for our web site visitor, so don’t even ask if you can have them now.  

Our mission is to improve these Daylily varieties, so that they can survive and flourish in this harsh northern European climate. The new plants must demonstrate that their stems are strong enough, that the blooms fully open in the cool temperatures here, and that the bright colours remain sun resistant in various areas within the garden before we will introduce them for sale.

During the main blooming season, from April until September, our display garden is open to the public and Mr. Juhr continues to delight our visitors with his insights and expertise in flower breeding.

Daylilies
Mr. Juhr has registered over 90 new varieties with the AHS.  Key goals have been to achieve the following results:

• Small flowered diploid Daylilies (mainly “edged”, and “eyed” and with many branches per scape and many buds)

• Large flowered diploid daylilies (mainly white, pink, and purple) with picotee edges or shades of other colors within one color

• Diploid Spider (tall Spider with strong stems, but also extremely small Spiders)

• Tetraploid Daylilies (white, with eyes and edge, smoky colours, pigmentation, pink colors or flowers with a dusting of another colour)

• Tetraploid Spider (absolutely new in the hybridizing, and for since five years they have proven to be strong, tall and excellent coloured Spiders, which are wind and sun resistant)

Peonies
During the last 10 years various hybridizing projects have yielded terrific results.
Mr. Juhr has hybridized P. suffruticosa, wild peonies as well as various Paeonia Lactiflora Varieties. Some of our favourites are the single coral pink peonese and various Japanese forms (single with filling and/or bomb).

Iris
Hybridizing projects include tall to medium-height Bearded Iris, Iris sibirica und Iris spuria.