Visit the Flower Mound home and gardens of Lee and Anita Causey, and it’s immediately obvious that the two like hybrid daylilies and dolls.

Dolls sit on shelves, beds, sofas and chairs in every room in the house, and the spacious front yard and back yard are filled with hybrid daylilies in every color of the rainbow except blue.

That’s because daylilies don’t come in blue, Mr. Causey says.

The Causeys are playing host to the “Daylilies and Dolls” open house from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at their home at 8204 Firestone Drive in Flower Mound. Admission is free.

More than 1,200 daylilies, plants, shrubs and trees create an overwhelming, welcoming vibe outside the Causeys’ brick home. Also, behind the home stands a 60-feet Koi pond and waterfall, through which Japanese Koi fish dart.

Mrs. Causey, who has long, orange hair and looks well under her 65 years, has been collecting rare, beautiful dolls for more than 35 years.

Talking about her love for dolls, Causey says, “I usually look at them as a beautiful face,” or something about a doll reminds her of a personality of someone she knows or a look in someone’s face. Some remind her of her five granddaughters. She also has eight grandsons and five children.

At the downstairs dining room table, seven dolls sit in chairs, looking as if they are ready to have tea. Meanwhile Annie, a white cat, darts along the table and manages to avoid knocking over any dishes or cups.

Mrs. Causey says that she has given away many dolls; she says she gives away a couple of hundred a year. One time she put 80 to 100 dolls in her garage and told her neighbors, “Come out and get ‘em.”

Around the corner from the dining room is a high-ceilinged room with burgundy sofas. Betty Boop dolls sit, and some dolls wearing burgundy dresses sit on the sofas, which have matching burgundy and gold pillows. Mrs. Causey says she likes to color-coordinate her dolls and the rooms when she can.

If the downstairs has many dolls, Mrs. Causey says, “This is scary,” talking about the upstairs.

Then walking up the stairs, Mrs. Causey says, “It is getting harder and harder to take care of everything.” She says that she kept track of the first 1,000 dolls, but after that she has lost track of some of the dolls.

Mrs. Causey says that when she was three years old, some woman took away a doll from her, and she guesses she never recovered, so she kept getting more and more dolls.

She also has stories for each room that she enters. She points to some Pauline dolls and says that the doll maker was separated from a sister when she was in a concentration camp in World War II. Then, she promised herself that if she ever got reunited with her sister, she would give her only doll to her. After the two were reunited, the sister got the doll, and then that began the maker’s doll career.

Nearby closets are stacked with Madame Alexander and Barbie boxes, and drawers are full of doll accessories.

In one room a Miss Piggie doll sits near a bathroom faucet. Then in another room there is a doll resembling Gloria Vanderbilt that has a wax-over-porcelain face, a Princess and the Pea doll, and Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls. Also, Mrs. Causey points out Lee Middleton dolls: “They’re very good for young children and they’re made just like a baby.” She moves a baby-looking doll’s neck to show what she means.

In most rooms in the house sit shelves, on which dolls and more dolls hold court. Dolls also rest on the beds in the bedrooms and on the floor. When the Causeys have company, Mrs. Causey moves the dolls off the beds, but that can take a day sometimes.

“Family knows Momma’s a bit obsessive,” Mrs. Causey says.

The obsession makes for quite a tour, though. Dorothy, the scarecrow and the tin man from “The Wizard of Oz,” more Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls, Lucille Ball, Princess Diana and others appear as dolls around the house. While admiring one doll with realistic, dark, shiny hair, Mrs. Causey says that she tries to comb the hair of all her dolls with comb-able hair before she entertains.

Mrs. Causey peeks into another closet, and she says, “I hate putting them in closets.”

As Mrs. Causey has a love for dolls, her husband, Lee, has quite a hankering for daylilies. Standing in his front yard, he says that he first went to a flower shop in Fair Park in Dallas. Then, he says, “I was bitten by the bug.”

He bought a few, then a few more, and he kept buying more and more. The Causeys’ back and front yards are sprawled with daylilies—massive, with large, small and spider kinds of lilies.

Mr. Causey, who is a nutritionist who spends a lot of time traveling to talk about health and wellness, says that he spends all of his off time in the gardens.

Red cannas and hot pink wine cups also dot the Causeys’ front yard. Meanwhile miniature, light pink roses beam, and daylilies with great, big purple eyes demand attention.

Mr. Causey marvels at how all of the daylilies are unique. “There are no two alike,” he says. “Ever.”

Talking about his open house and gardens, Mr. Causey says, “We just do it because we love the flowers and we love showing them to people.”

For more information on the tour, call the Causeys at 817-430-6260.