I have to say that some plants get invited into my garden because of their name association for me, and some plants do NOT get invitations, because of their names. It works both ways, and it works whatever the particular plant species (irises, daylilies, whatever).
Of the plants that get invited, they only stay if they at least meet minimum garden expectations. (Thus, I once invited a daylily with my mother's name, but it was a horrible plant and got tossed.
) I have invited more than a few daylilies and irises because of name associations, and so far most of them have stayed.
I have to confess that I am not a 100% hard-liner when it comes to rejecting a plant based on its name. There are a few plants that get invited where I am
somewhat negative about the name (I don't really like it, but I am not 100% revulsed by it either, or else the name has perhaps a questionable connotation yet also has some personal meaning), because said plant supposedly has some virtue or other that I really want. I guess the iris 'I I Stutter' falls into this category... a horrible name, really (imho it almost mocks people with this problem), yet the name suggests rebloom (a trait that I want).
Similarly the daylily 'Bela Lugosi' (which brings to mind watching horror movies as a family when I was a child, which has personal meaning yet at the same time, should I really be celebrating an actor who portrayed a vampire?), has some positive plant attributes.
I have thus far drawn the line at anything 'Satan(ic)' in the garden, and I highly doubt that I would invite anything with (what I perceive to be) a vulgar name, such as 'Baboon Bottom'.
Gardens should be places of positive memories, and/or places of beauty (perhaps thematic beauty), and/or places to honor/worship The Creator, and names are a part of that.
(Fwiw, 'Fire in the Hole' could be a name with positive meaning for someone with military experience (which is not me).)
