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Re: [SG] changing daylily color

At 09:06 AM 8/3/98 EDT, you wrote:
> Thanks to all that responded to my daylily question. Even if I wish the
>answer
>would have been different.
>  The phlox and daylilies do bloom at the same time. I really don't like the
>pastel   pink right by the bright orange. I think I will have to take some
>kind of action.
> Bobbie, it's funny that you mentioned food coloring, I have thought about
>doing that.
>I think I am actually going to try it, what have I got to lose! If I could
get
>them to
>turn red I could live with that. If that doesn't work I think I will take
>Clyde's advice
>and remove what I can and put in a new cultivar.
>  John, I hope you are getting the rain you needed. Up here in MN we are
>finally
>getting a wonderful soft rain.
>   Here is one more question,what about cross-pollenating? Could that change
>the color?
>           Thanks,Cyan-zone 4
>
I must be missing something here.  Why can't you just move the phlox?
Leave the daylilies.  And BTW, daylilies are not true lilies.  Margaret
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