Re: Daylily Bertie Ferris, etc =^..^=

Good Grief...  

Bertie Ferris (hybridized by my old friend Ury Winniford) like it's namesake 
originated in south Dallas...  Bertie was a great woman who lived to a ripe 
old age and an awesome daylily judge for many many years.  I always marveled as 
I walked with Ury & his shovel on his oversized property behind his house 
where he did all his hybridizing and growing of incredible peonies & dayliles.  Of 
course this was not just his garden.  He shared it with his good hybridizing 
friends I had the honor & priivilege to know which of course were: Ken & 
Virginia Henson as well as Bertie Ferris.  Bertie was the widow of Royal Ferris who 
helped build huge thoroughfares in Dallas.  Hence the name "Royal" Avenue in 
Dallas.  You can still find bricks commemorating the name of Royal Ferris at 
various on ramps in Dallas at the base of a few of the expressways he's 
responsible for...  including Central Expressway (that's Hwy 75 though Dallas) as 
well as the Dallas North Parkway (Tollway)...  Yes, the Ferris' were incredibly 
wealthy.  I was terribly saddened by the deaths within the last 3 to 5 years of 
all of them I admired so & had the pleasure to know and stroll through their 
gardens with...  Bertie Ferris, Ury Winniford, Ken Henson...  But this is 
daylily talk...  Aren't I on the iris robin?????

Anyway...  long story short to Mickey Corley in Bethany an entire 2 miles 
west of me...  Yes!  Bertie Ferris & virtually every daylily in existence grows 
well & flourishes in OKC (& we're not far south)...  Daylilies grow in every 
climate imagineable...  

Happy New Year to all...   Kath in OKC  =^..^=   
IttyBittyIrisFan@aol.com...  aka:  Kathy Poore in Oklahoma  AIS Reg 22, Zone 
7 

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