Re: Orange Ditch Lily
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Orange Ditch Lily
- From: B* D*
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:22:22 -0500
Bob is right, the thing is sterile, but Oh Boy, it will still take over a
yard if you let it get the slightest toehold. I have a patch I've been
trying to eradicate for 25 years. I've given up and we're moving! To a new
plot of land without a single orange ditch lily!
Of course, the hemerocallis is not a true lily.
Bobbi Diehl
Bloomington, IN
zone 5/6
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, bob wrote:
> J.E. Shields wrote:
>
> > I don't allow the old-fashioned roadside or ditch lily, Hemerocallis fulva
> > 'Europa', anywhere near my place, for fear it might overwhelm the 10,000
> > other daylily plants we grow.
>
> Hi Jim
> I thought the old fashioned orange daylily is a triploid and won't
> cross with anything anyway.
>
