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Jim Massey and his staff cultivate three acres worth of daylilies – that’s 1,400 varieties – all year long, but their work is only open to the public a few weekends a year.Many customers travel all the way from the N.C. coast for Jim Massey's daylilies. (Photo by Debbie Roos.)

Every Saturday and Sunday from 7:30am-5:30pm through July 26, Massey’s Holly Hill Daylily Farm in Moncure is hosting its 18th Annual Daylily Festival and Sale. Choose a daylily from the field (pay with cash or checks only), and staffers will dig them up, bag them and send them home with you to be planted. Clumps of daylilies are priced from $4 to $75 (the average price is $9). You’ll find daylilies from the miniature to the gigantic, from narrow petaled to broad petaled. About 50 of the varieties have been developed at the farm.

“We have a nice cross section of what dayliles can be,” says Massey.

While you’re there, check out Massey’s folk art collection (“I sell daylilies so I can buy folk art,” he says.). It’s grown so much over the years that he’s created a museum on the farm. And whirligigs and birdhouses made by local artists are available for sale, as well as farm fresh eggs from Massey’s chickens.

For directions to Holly Hill, click here.