We would like to thank all our daylily customers over the years for their purchases and warm friendly comments about our daylily farm. Each year we plan to add more newly hybridized daylilies for sale & display within our landscaped gardens for exclusive new daylily offerings! Local customers and out-of-town visitors may stop by from 10AM-2PM during OPEN GARDEN weekends and check out our hybrid daylilies on display within our hillside gardens. We are also registering and introducing our very own hybridized daylilies! Check out a sampling of our registrations and newest hybridized daylily seedlings pictured right here within the website.

History of Rainbow Hill Daylily Farm: Growing daylilies in Lafayette Indiana is a hobby Brad Best began in the fall of 1994. Since that beginning, Brad’s daylily hobby grew beyond that of the average gardener with over an acre of landscaped daylilies. In the summer of 2001, after seven years in a “growing” hobby, Rainbow Hill Daylily Farm was founded. To this day, the daylilies still remain as a hobby and a way of meeting good people! Today, Brad shares his daylily hobby with his wife Natasha & two sons, Alexander and Aaron Best - as well as everyone driving by Rainbow Hill Daylily Farm!

Our hybridizing program: At Rainbow Hill Daylily Farm, we display daylilies from some of the most popular hybridized daylilies on the market. Our hybridized daylilies are comprised of the newest and most cutting-edge genetics from daylily hybridizers such as: Paul Downie Jr., Pat & Grace Stamile, Bob Carr, Jack Carpenter and John Kinnebrew just to name a few. Daylilies such as MICHAEL'S SWORD (Best ‘06), JERRY NETTLES (Kinnebrew ‘02) and JESUS AROSE (Best ‘05) have paved the way for some of our most unique hybrid daylily forms. Currently, our hybridizing program is focused primarily on the newest and most cutting edge: “bearded” daylilies as well as continuing new colorations of golden “pie-crust ruffled” daylilies (thanks to our daylily friend John Kinnebrew)!

Benefits of visiting our nursery during “OPEN GARDEN visitation” include opportunities to view plant habits of our daylilies growing in “clump” form. Our mother clumps (each about 10-20 fans) allow customers the chance to view a daylily, once it reaches a good mature size for display. Plant habit such as height, bloom size, color and form are also distinguished within a good mother clump. Therefore, our customers may feel confident they have chosen the right daylilies for their landscaping needs. Visitors also get to enjoy explosions of color radiating down the hillside along with fragrances of thousands of blooming daylilies!

Remember, peak blooming when all our mid-season daylilies are in bloom starts about July 4th! KABOOM!!!

Sincerely, Brad, Natasha, Alexander & Aaron Best

Notes to remember: The daylily, sometimes simply referred to as “Lily or Lillies” and commonly spelled “Day lily or Daylilly” is a perennial with a defined meaning in Asian culture that means: “to forget all sorrows.” With true faith and love in our Lord Jesus Christ, our tears are wiped away.

(ISAIAH 25:8) “The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces.”