Re: Are there purple daylilies?
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- Subject: Re: Are there purple daylilies?
- From: T*
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:48:40 -0400
On 6/29/00 10:38 AM Nan Sterman (nsterman@mindsovermatter.com) said:
>I recently bought what I was told was a deep purple daylily. It is
>now blooming and to my eye, it looks like a deep burgundy. So I am
>wondering if there is truly a purple daylily or if daylily purple is
>a relative color rather than true purple.
When I was a teenager in the 50s, I was interested in purple daylilies,
but what was called "purple" was usually wine or plum. A variety called
Prodigy (Wheeler) was about the most purplish one back then. I think more
blue has been added to the purplish tones since then.
Tom Miller
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