Re: [SG] shady daylilies
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] shady daylilies
- From: B* S* <B*@HSC.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:59:58 -0400
>Beside middendorfi, there is dumortieri, a similar species with reddish
>backed tepals. I have seen both of these for sale.
dumortieri may be what I have. I raised this from seed labelled "mixed
species" and then tried to identify it myself. Has some characteristics of
both species, but is usually very early, sometimes even before the main
tulip bloom. Some rebloom if we have a wet summer--which we haven't had
for 4 years, and this summer looks like it will be the worst yet.
>
>McClure and Zimmerman carry a few species ( www.mzbulb.com ). Perhaps
>Beth C. with the large collection can offer a source for others. Somewhere
>you may find true miniatures, always in yellows, delicate and appropriate for
>shady companions. Mine came from a friend. Arrowhead Alpines has some
>occasionally.
I flowered H. minor this spring but was not terribly impressed. On the
other hand, I have some big clumps of seed-raised miniatures that are
excellent. One in particular is a nice little yellow--12" stalks and 1.5"
flowers. Others are in brownish shades. These are from open-pollinated
seed of one rather drab brown miniature that was itself grown from seed 20
years ago.
Hoping to see H. multiflora and H. edoensis this summer; they're nice big
plants now.
The state of North Carolina has "given" me some nice daylilies that do fine
in part shade. They came from stalk proliferations I plucked off (is that
legal?) late one October at a highway rest stop. Before somebody gets all
huffy, let me say that the proliferations were on dead brown stalks and
were otherwise doomed.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
