橡树萱草苗圃（Oakes Daylilies）是美国田纳西州东部的家族经营萱草专营苗圃，迄今已持续经营超过50年。苗圃由Bill Oakes在自己后院偶然种植几株萱草起步，因邻里纷纷求苗而发展壮大，目前由家族第四代Ken Oakes与其子Joshua（Bill的曾孙）共同经营，主营业务涵盖萱草选种、规模化裸根苗培育、批发零售与邮购出口。
苗圃概况与品种体系
橡树萱草苗圃位于田纳西州东部的种植基地，种植面积近50英亩，长期栽培并销售超过1000个萱草品种，历史上累计试种过的品种数超过4000个，号称”如果不愿种在自己园里，就不会卖给顾客”。所有出货植株均为带三丛以上（three fans）的大规格裸根苗，远超业内常见单丛到双丛标准，移栽后第一季即可大量开花。苗圃保证所有售出萱草鲜活现挖，叶片修剪后冲洗发货，确保裸根到达客户手中时仍处于最佳状态。
苗圃专营与系列分类
苗圃按颜色、花型、重瓣性、株型与多次开花特性对萱草进行系列化整理，主要分类包括杏色系（Apricot）、红色系（Red）、黄色系、粉色系、紫色系、薰衣草色系、橙色系、深色系、近白色系与复色系，以及重瓣（Doubles）、蜘蛛瓣（Spider）、迷你型（Short）、超大型（Jumbo）、再开花（Rebloomers）、全美奖系列（All-Americans）、Oakes自有培育系列（Oakes Introductions）等专题。苗圃每年更新品种名录与新品发布，对应植株被细分为新种（New for 2026）、畅销前50、回头购买前20、库存恢复等多个子集，并提供按颜色与花期分组的预选合集（Collections）。
邮购物流与客户保障
橡树萱草苗圃面向全美50州客户开展邮购业务，所有订单通过FedEx Ground寄送，订单金额超过100美元免运费，低于100美元收取13.95美元统一运费，目前不向美国境外发货。苗圃根据不同USDA种植区（Zone 2-10）安排对应发货季节，从2月中下旬至10月下旬分区滚动出货，确保植株在客户所在地最佳种植窗口送达。所有售出植株附带100%成活保证，如未成活可免费补发；订单还可根据购物车金额选择免费赠品植株，包括园标、肥料与纪念品等附加品类。
萱草节与社区互动
苗圃每年6月在田纳西州种植基地举办一年一度的”萱草节”（Daylily Festival），截至2026年已连续举办26届。节日为期两日（2026年为6月26-27日9:00-13:00），向公众免费开放，现场设现挖裸根苗销售区、盆装苗销售棚、免费赠品萱草发放、现场美食与咖啡车及现场音乐表演。访客凭购车凭证可享受免运费政策。苗圃在田纳西州当地被业内公认为萱草专家级供应商，品种已广泛种植于美国家庭花园、城市公园与植物园，范围覆盖夏威夷与加拿大。
Oakes Daylilies
Oakes Daylilies is a family-owned daylily nursery in East Tennessee that has specialized in Hemerocallis for more than 50 years. The business traces its origin to founder Bill Oakes, who planted a few daylilies in his backyard and soon found neighbors eager to take divisions for their own gardens. Today the nursery is run by fourth-generation Ken Oakes and his son Joshua, Bill’s great-grandson, and it produces, ships, and retails field-grown bare-root daylilies to gardeners across the United States.
Nursery Profile and Plant Specifications
Operating from roughly 50 acres in East Tennessee, Oakes Daylilies maintains more than 1,000 daylily varieties in active production and has trialed more than 4,000 cultivars over the decades. The nursery follows a strict performance rule: “if we wouldn’t plant it in our garden, we won’t sell it to you.” Every order is freshly dug, washed, and trimmed for shipment, and plants are shipped as three-fan or larger bare-root divisions—two to three times the size of industry-standard single-fan plants. This larger starter size lets gardeners see vigorous blooms in their first growing season, and every plant is backed by a 100 percent survival guarantee with free replacement if it fails to establish.
Specialization and Variety Collections
The catalog organizes daylilies by color, form, foliage habit, and reblooming tendency. Major color groups include apricot, red, yellow, pink, purple, lavender, orange, dark, near-white, and blends, while special form groups cover doubles, spiders, short or compact varieties, jumbo specimens, and rebloomers that flower across multiple seasons. Award-winning All-American selections, Oakes’ own named introductions, and themed gift collections—ranging from customer favorites to new releases for 2026 and the top-50 best sellers—help gardeners narrow their choices. Filtering by evergreen, semi-evergreen, or dormant foliage type also lets southern growers match varieties to mild-winter climates.
Mail Order, Shipping, and Guarantees
Orders ship via FedEx Ground to all 50 U.S. states, with free shipping on orders over $100 and a flat $13.95 charge for smaller orders. The nursery cannot ship internationally. To respect regional climates, shipping windows are staggered by USDA hardiness zone, beginning in mid-to-late February for zones 9-10 and closing in mid-to-late October for the coldest zones, so plants arrive during each customer’s optimal planting window. Free bonus plants tied to order value, engraved garden labels, daylily fertilizer, gift certificates, and Oakes branded merchandise are also available, and every plant is covered by a replacement guarantee.
Daylily Festival and Community Engagement
Each June, the nursery hosts its annual Daylily Festival on the Tennessee growing grounds, a tradition now in its 26th year. The 2026 festival runs June 26-27 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and features tens of thousands of daylilies in bloom, freshly dug bare-root and potted plants for sale, free refreshments and live music, and limited-quantity free daylily giveaways. Onsite food trucks and a coffee vendor complement the event, and festival visitors receive free shipping on plant orders. The Oakes team is widely recognized in the trade as a daylily authority, and their varieties can be found in home gardens, municipal parks, and botanical collections across the United States, including Hawaii and Canada.
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