LEARNING ABOUT DAYLILIES |
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If you are interested in learning more about daylilies consider joining the American Hemerocallis Society. You will receive a journal published quarterly, that is full of informative articles and lots of colour pictures. Canadian AHS members also get their regional newsletters. In addition to the regular journal, AHS offers a number of excellent and inexpensive reference books on many aspects of daylily culture. On line visit the AHS official website at: www.daylilies.org For information or to
join the American Hemerocallis
Society contact: Pat Mercer, PO Box 10 Dexter, Georgia 31019 E mail:
gmercer@nlamerica.com You could also visit
the Ontario Daylily Website or the American
Hemerocallis Website www.daylilies.org/daylilies.html There
are many excellent reference texts on daylilies available. These are some of
our favourites. Daylilies
The Perfect Perennial Lewis and Nancy
Hill, Gardenway Publishing Company Daylilies:
The Beginners Handbook American
Hemerocallis Society (available
from the society) Daylilies-
A Fifty Year Affair American
Hemerocallis Society Hemerocallis
The Daylily R.W. Munson Jr. Timber Press Inc Hemerocallis,
Walter Erhardt, Timber Press Growing
Daylilies Graeme Grosvenor, Kangaroo Press The
Colour Encyclopedia of Daylilies, John Peat
and Ted Petit If
you are interested in learning about the famous hybridizers who introduced
many of the daylilies in this catalogue you would enjoy reading: A
Passion for Daylilies The Flowers and the People by
Sidney Eddison published by Henry Holt and Company |
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A NOTE ABOUT TISSUE CULTURE Many plants that are sold in nurseries across the
world are reproduced through tissue culture. It allows a large quantity of a choice plant to get to
market quickly. For many plants,
hostas being one example, it works very well. In the daylily world tissue
culture has been tried but has not proven very successful. You will sometimes find inexpensive
plants of very choice cultivars available for a fraction of what most growers
are selling these plants for. It
has been our experience that these plants are tissue cultured and often do
not perform like the original cultivar.
In fact the colour may be off, the size may be different and the
plants may lack the vigour of their vegetatively propagated parent. We do not sell plants that are produced from tissue
culture. We have bought these plants.
We initially could not resist a bargain either. We have held on to them as a trial
rather than risk releasing them to our customers. We now know that they are, in general,
very inferior to the original stock. Please be cautious when buying
these plants. There are a lot of
gardeners who will never know the true beauty of a plant like ‘Strawberry
Candy’ because they have an inferior clone that they thought was a great
bargain.
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