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Re: [SG] changing daylily color

In a message dated 98-08-03 18:29:46 EDT, you write:

<< Hmm,   Friends,

 Not sure I understand, Clyde about the comment, but if you were
 suggesting crossing the H fulva with another daylily- it is believed
 to be sterile....or almost so.  It was the beginning of the hybrids,
 but poor ole Dr Stout did thousands of crosses to get some seeds....
  >>
Hmmmmmm Bobbie.
Perhaps you might want to re-read my post. It was Cyan who was suggesting
using H. fulva as a pod parent.
A question for you: How can a plant be sterile and not sterile? (Nuclear
physicists have proven that there IS indeed a particle that can be in  two
different places at the same time, but I think that is a truly exceptional
paradox, dont you?)
What I was trying to clarify was that pollinating a plant does not change the
color of the plant pollinated.

You are a real expert on the Hemerocallis genus;but, the little I do know is
that not all "newer cultivars" are better than the "old cultivars." An example
is H. 'Hyperion'.
The ones I have---a gift to me from Jack Mead, whose grandfather hybridized
it, from the family estate in Michigan---are all I need in the way of hems. (I
also grow the
 variegated-leafed one.)
The little sun I have is reserved for ornamental grasses and such.Don't get me
wrong. I think some hemerocallises are beautiful---but, they tend to look
awful in the afternoon, I think.  And they "weep" or "slick" which I find
unappealing.
Also, I just cannot put up with all that plain green foliage for so many
months of the growing season.
BTW, tell us about your shade plants. I have not seen your garden, but I
remember those beautiful leaves of Hosta 'Leola Fraim' that you exhibited at
the Columbus(?) AHS Convention. ( Bobbie won Queen of the Show, folks, for her
entry.)

Clyde Crockett z5 Indianapolis IN
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