Hi Betty, I posted this on the other site "Growing Daylilies Together". It's an okay description of the Eureka Daylily Guide. No one else ever commented on this, so take it as only my opinion. I love the "Guide". It doesn't have as many gardens listed as it did years ago, since the enet got so popular. I hope to list my daylilies in it next year. This will depend on the cost of having a garden listed. I don't know what that is. I'll discover more info before the 2012 deadline. The photos are great this year. I think it's worth the cost just to have the pleasure of looking at all the great photos.
For more info and to purchase, go to their wesite:
http://www.gardeneureka.com/
Here's the description:
I'm going to tell you how I "think" this guide works. If I'm wrong, please someone fill in the blanks for me.
I've bought about 5 of them. The last one being in 2007< I think. I don't have it here, so I might be off a year.
If, let's say I wanted to place an ad in the guide, I would send in a list with my named hybrids and the price that I wanted to sell them for and the number of fans the price is for. I don't know what the charge is for having my garden listed in the Guide. I really have no idea. I do know that there is a charge. It's a really nice spiral bound book with heavy grade paper and a water resistant cover to use outside. I have had one in my greenhouse for 5 years and if I dusted it off, it would still look nearly new. It hasn't absorbed moisture at all or hurt the binding in any way.
Then "the Guide" takes my information and enters it into a database with the rest of all the sellers. If it hasn't changed, the guide lists the daylilies in alphabetical order. Which I would assume would be all the daylilies that everyone had included on their lists that are registered daylilies. Under the name is a brief description of this named daylily. Then it lists the average price. (This is where I'm jumping to a guess) They take all the prices of this registered daylily that the sellers gave to them on the sellers lists and get the average cost of this daylily. I'm again guessing that this would have to be the way they arrive at the average cost. I'm wouldn't know of another way to get the average price.(this is where I have read a few complaints because it doesn't necessarliy give an average price of the market for this daylily. Only the average for all listed in this Guide) Then after the average price, there will be a listing of daylily sellers and the price they listed for this cultiver and how many fans(usually a double fan or singe fan). Only sellers that have this cultiver for sale would be listed under this daylily, so not all sellers are listed under each daylily.
It's not sold to be "THE" price of daylilies. Only the price that listed sellers are asking for their cultivers. Many people that sell daylilies do not list their plants for sale in this guide. A lot publish their own cataloges yearly. Even more have their own website. And of course, there is the Lily Auction, Ebay and several other websites that offer a way for growers to sell their daylilies.
The Guide is a
GOOD PRINTED list of plants(no, it doesn't list all 77,000+ registered cultivers. It does have a lot.(the 2012 has 11,577 cultivars listed) It does have a sampling of the going price of a named cultiver. It does give you the information to contact each seller listed in the Guide. It does have beautiful colored photos of alot of daylilies(not all listed daylilies have a photo, nowhere near all) but alot of them. Since I bought my last one they have started giving access to an online version that is supposed to have more photos and more info. I have'nt seen this yet because you must have an enclosed registeration number to access this part of the site. When I recieve my Guide, I will get this info.
You should be able to go to their website to get alot more info than I've included.
I do not represent them in anyway, none, nota, not at all. I'm just going to buy one because I have always found them useful and also enjoyable.
OK, now please, some else give a more resent version of this. I hope this helps. Blessings to you and yours, Mona
